Jandy Nelson Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invention, a woman living on the last page of the story with only what we imagined spread out before her. I liked that she was ours, alone.

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  Mom, Thinking, Secret

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.122, Penguin

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• I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

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  Feels, Happens, Left

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.32, Penguin

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• I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

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  Sorry, Sad Life, Dresses

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.77, Penguin

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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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• He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Fog

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

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• Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.

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  Dream, Make Sense, Persons

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.120, Penguin

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• He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then removes it, and heads back into the living room. Whoa - well, that was either the dorkiest or sexiest moment of my life, and I'm voting for sexy on account of my standing here dumbstruck and giddy, wondering if he did kiss me after all.

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  Sexy, Heart, Kissing

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.72, 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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• 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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• 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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• There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed her too much, was way too sad, so she crossed some paths that would not have crossed, took some moments in her hand shook them up and spilled them like dice over the living world. It worked. The boy with the guitar collided with her sister. "There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.

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  Girl, Boys, Guitar

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.129, Penguin

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• Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

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  World, Chance, Remakes

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• No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

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  Sports, Leather Jackets, Guy

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

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