“Who knows if [maybe] destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life?” — Jandy Nelson Destiny Copy Share Image
Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person. — Jandy Nelson Dream Copy Share Image
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing. — Jandy Nelson Our relationship Copy Share Image
Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. — Jandy Nelson Breath Copy Share Image
Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“His face is more open than an open book, like a wall of graffiti really. I realize I'm writing wow on my… — Jandy Nelson Books Copy Share Image
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“She sent me a text today: Sending out a search party for our friendship. I haven't responded. I don't know where it… — Jandy Nelson Friendship Copy Share Image
“Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I think of that counselor telling me i was the house in the woods with no doors or windows. No way to… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Sure, I've always been into the Big Bang theory of passion, but as something thoretical, something that happens in books that you… — Jandy Nelson Big bang Copy Share Image
“My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in… — Jandy Nelson Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“Telepathically, I tell her I'm sorry. I tell her I just can't confide in her right now, tell her the three feet… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their… — Jandy Nelson Brotherhood Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Architecture Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Accumulating Copy Share Image
I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run...” — Jandy Nelson Brother Copy Share Image
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind? — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I think if we don't stop kissing, the world is going to explode.” — Jandy Nelson Kissing Copy Share Image
“We are, each one of us for the other, a key to a door that otherwise would've remained locked forever” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image