Jandy Nelson Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Night, Break, Globes

  4 Copy quote

• The Color Of Extraordinary.

  Jandy Nelson

  Color, Extraordinary

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Forever, Going Away

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

  7 Copy quote

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Mouths, Fit, Words Love

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

  6 Copy quote

• 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?

  Jandy Nelson

  World, Kind, Worst

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

  6 Copy quote

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Rain, Flower, Color

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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Stars, Shining, Stills

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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jandy Nelson

  Cheer Up, Sky, Feet

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

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jandy Nelson

  Thinking, Expression, Secret

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

  4 Copy quote

• But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

  Jandy Nelson

  Heart, What If, Break

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

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know how the heart withstands it.

  Jandy Nelson

  Heart, Know How, Knows

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.173, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. Who knew all this time I was one kiss away from being Cathy and Juliet and Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Chatterley!?

  Jandy Nelson

  Kissing, Rushing, Feelings

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

  4 Copy quote

• If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

  Jandy Nelson

  Luck, Knows, Ifs

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.104, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

  Jandy Nelson

  Brightness, Knows, Felt

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.99, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

  Jandy Nelson

  Heart, Soul, Sauce

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.165, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

• Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

  Jandy Nelson

  People, Stories, Meant To Be

  4 Copy quote

• For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

  Jandy Nelson

  Giving, Maps, Firsts

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.27, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sun, Hell, Decency

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.18, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• Life’s a freaking mess… 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.

  Jandy Nelson

  Beautiful, Heart, Cacophony

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.156, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Sleep, Blow

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• I can't shove the dark out of my way.

  Jandy Nelson

  Dark, Way, My Way

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.78, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

  Jandy Nelson

  Crush, Reality, Shoes

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.69, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

• Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

  Jandy Nelson

  Garden, Years, Sky

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

  4 Copy quote

• It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

  Jandy Nelson

  Second Chance, World, Chance

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.174, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin