Jandy Nelson Quotes - Page 2

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• And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

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  Night, Break, Globes

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• The Color Of Extraordinary.

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  Color, Extraordinary

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• Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

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  Grief, Forever, Going Away

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.163, Penguin

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• How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

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  Mouths, Fit, Words Love

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

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• 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?

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  World, Kind, Worst

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.43, Penguin

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• When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

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  Rain, Flower, Color

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.83, Penguin

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• It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

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  Stars, Shining, Stills

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.40, Penguin

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• The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

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  Cheer Up, Sky, Feet

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.80, Penguin

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• All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

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  Thinking, Expression, Secret

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.101, Penguin

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• That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

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  Crazy, Want, I Am Crazy

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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• 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 alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

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  Fall, Dark, Experts

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• I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

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  Grief, Clothes, People

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

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  Horizon, Way, Ifs

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.216, Penguin

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• I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

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  Talking, Use, Paper

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.12, Penguin

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• Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

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  Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.164, Penguin

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• Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.

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  Beautiful, Philosophical, Heart

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• [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, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

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  Girl, Mom, Football

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• There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

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  Sister, Stars, Lying

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• I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

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  Heart, What If, Break

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.63, Penguin

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• I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

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  Wish, Shadow, Get Up

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.34, Penguin

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• This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.

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  Reading, Thinking, Stories

  "The Sky Is Everywhere". Book by Jandy Nelson, March 9, 2010.

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• He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.

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  Hair, Eyebrows, Laughing

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• The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

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  Witty, Thinking, Drunk

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• Each time someone dies, a library burns.

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  Library, Dies

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.101, Penguin

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• I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.

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  Writing, Who I Am, Wind

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.158, Penguin

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