That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“During the day, everyone talks in colors instead of sounds. It’s so quiet.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.” — Jandy Nelson Flower Copy Share Image
It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way. — Jandy Nelson Horizon Copy Share Image
“She smiles at me and it sends a warm summer breeze around the room.” — Jandy Nelson Breeze Copy Share Image
“They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.” — Jandy Nelson Black heart Copy Share Image
“There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him. Three… — Jandy Nelson God Copy Share Image
“Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s let the whole fucking world… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“And then yesterday…” He tosses the clarinet onto the bed. “Found out you belong to me.” He points at me. “I own… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a… — Jandy Nelson Art Copy Share Image
The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you… — Jandy Nelson Blue Copy Share Image
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new… — Jandy Nelson Alphabet Copy Share Image
She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps. — Jandy Nelson Beach Copy Share Image
I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures… — Jandy Nelson Book Copy Share Image
“Una y otra vez, día tras día, me esforcé por ser vista. Solo quería que me prestara atención, no que me dejara… — Jandy Nelson Amor Copy Share Image
He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter:… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
He doesn’t have to say it, i feel it too; it’s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is… — Jandy Nelson Bells Copy Share Image
But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“My first day back to school is just as I expect, the hall does a red sea part when I come in,… — Jandy Nelson Communication Copy Share Image
... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust… — Jandy Nelson Another world Copy Share Image
“At night, when we were little, we tented Bailey's covers, crawled underneath with our flashlights and played cards: Hearts, Whist, Crazy Eights,… — Jandy Nelson Dreams Copy Share Image
“Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars… — Jandy Nelson Breath Copy Share Image
“Gram made me go to the doctor to see if there was something wrong with my heart. After a bunch of tests,… — Jandy Nelson Good news Copy Share Image
[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is… — Jandy Nelson Birth Copy Share Image
“There once was a girl who found herself dead. She spent her days peering over the ledge of heaven, her chin in… — Jandy Nelson Comforting-thought Copy Share Image
There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Alive Copy Share Image
“This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly. You'd… — Jandy Nelson Life Copy Share Image
![“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip…” quote by Jandy Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/jandy-nelson-1913_birth_lennie-meets-joe-he-works-out-that-she-w_1625792.jpg)
