Jandy Nelson Quotes
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Jandy Nelson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm having a hand problem. How come everyone else seems to know what to do with them? Pockets, I remember with relief, pockets, I love pockets!
When I draw it, I'm going to make my skin see-through and what you'll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages.
A few times I try to form a question so it sounds casual and normal, but each time the words get caught somewhere in my throat and never make it out.
There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I'd like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first.
What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?
That's what I said. There's no peace to disturb. I kept telling the cop: No. Peace. To. Disturb. Man.
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.
She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking.
Again and again his tongue returns to that space between his front teeth. I'll look at this tree instead.
He had a mad desire to draw, to kiss the boy next door, , to peel the blue off the sky, to be the blue in the sky.
I've forgotten quite how luminous he is, like another species of human that doesn't have blood but light running through their veins.
I watch him throw his head back in supreme happiness, like he's hearing that he gets to choose the colors for all the sunsets from now on.
It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.
She gives of light. I give off dark. (PORTRAIT, SELF-PORTRAIT: Twins: The Flashlight and the Flashdark
It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.
I'm convinced the storm's going to bust down the walls. Then it does and I'm remembering Dad's dream because it's happening.
If you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?
She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.
It's like a hand at your throat all the time, isn't it? Nothing's inevitable anymore. Not the next heartbeat, not anything.
I love you," I say to him, only it comes out, "Hey."
"So damn much," he says back, only it comes out, "Dude."
He still won't meet my eyes.
"So damn much," he says back, only it comes out, "Dude."
He still won't meet my eyes.
If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci's studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian's roof with him at night - I'm on the roof