“It’s okay to be addicted to beauty,” Mom says, all dreamy. “Emerson said ‘Beauty is God’s handwriting.” — Jandy Nelson Beauty Copy Share Image
“He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us. — Jandy Nelson Decency Copy Share Image
“Me sorprendió ver que el tiempo no se detenía al detenerse su corazón.” — Jandy Nelson Amor Copy Share Image
“by Picasso: ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.” — Jandy Nelson Art Copy Share Image
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? — Jandy Nelson Crush Copy Share Image
“Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the… — Jandy Nelson Heartbreak Copy Share Image
We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be… — Jandy Nelson Collision Copy Share Image
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a… — Jandy Nelson English people Copy Share Image
“And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more,… — Jandy Nelson Kissing Copy Share Image
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“He looks at me incredulously. "I think you're amazing..." Why would he think this? Bailey is amazing and Gram and Big, and… — Jandy Nelson Family Copy Share Image
“I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you , cheese, sauce, my heart is yours , noodles, cheese, I hear your… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.” “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out,… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book… — Jandy Nelson Bears Copy Share Image
I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in… — Jandy Nelson Books Copy Share Image
“Before they can grin there fake smiles, I mumble something about a toilet, laugh a second too late at some joke, and… — Jandy Nelson Fake smiles Copy Share Image
“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I do not want to eat or drink, or I will lose the taste of you in my mouth.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“He’s the kind of man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists? — Jandy Nelson Candide Copy Share Image
“You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.” — Jandy Nelson Daughter Copy Share Image
“Who wants to know we are just one carefree breath away from the end? Who wants to know that the person you… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the… — Jandy Nelson Author Copy Share Image
“Sarah is the most enthusiastic cynical person on the planet. She’d be the perfect cheerleader if she weren’t so disgusted by the… — Jandy Nelson Cheerleader Copy Share Image
“Before leaving school I consorted with The Oracle: Google. Internet searches are better than tea leaves or a tarot deck.” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“And then we are kissing, so far into the sky I don’t think we’re ever coming back. If anyone asks where we… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“I try to fend off the oceanic sadness, but I can't. It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's… — Jandy Nelson Sadness Copy Share Image
“I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
