Top 500 Jandy Nelson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.”

— Jandy Nelson

2. “The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”

— Jandy Nelson

3. “Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing.”

— Jandy Nelson

4. “It’s a sink or swim world.”

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5. “Each time someone dies, a library burns.”

— Jandy Nelson

6. “That’s exactly it – I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.”

— Jandy Nelson

7. “If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”

— Jandy Nelson

8. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill.”

— Jandy Nelson

9. “It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.”

— Jandy Nelson

10. “Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.”

— Jandy Nelson

11. “You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”

— Jandy Nelson

12. “I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”

— Jandy Nelson

13. “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.”

— Jandy Nelson

14. “A veces tienes las cosas muy claras y, de repente, te das cuenta de que no sabes nada de nada.”

— Jandy Nelson

15. “People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.”

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16. “When twins are seperated, their spirits steal away to find the other.”

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17. “It’s such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what’s lost, but to be enchanted by what was.”

— Jandy Nelson

18. “Jude is my favorite of all the saints,” he says. “Patron saint of lost causes. The saint to call on when all hope is gone. The one in charge of miracles.”

— Jandy Nelson

19. “And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it’s night, day breaks.”

— Jandy Nelson

20. “Se requiere coraje para crecer y llegar a ser uno mismo. E.”

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21. “If Mom died, the sun would go out. Period.”

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22. “You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It’s your solo.”

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23. “But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?”

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24. “I remind myself some girls deserve to be alone.”

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25. “I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling 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. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It’s your solo.”

— Jandy Nelson

26. “Deseamos con nuestras manos; eso es lo que hacemos los artistas.”

— Jandy Nelson

27. “Where there is great love, there are always miracles. – WILLA CATHER.”

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28. “But what if I don’t need her permission, her approval, her praise to be who I want to be and do what I love? What if I’m in charge of my own damn light switch?”

— Jandy Nelson

29. “I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. Perhaps it’s the same with people and their cracks and breaks.”

— Jandy Nelson

30. “I wish I were a horse.”

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31. “I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”

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32. “You’re going to obliterate me aren’t you?”

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33. “Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever.”

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34. “It kicks the breath out of me, kicks bright light into me.”

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35. “I want to put my hands on your chest. I want to be in a thimble with you.”

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36. “We breathe and breathe and breathe together.”

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37. “She’s a sun-kissed beach girl who goes goth grunge punk hippie rocker emo core metal freak fashionista brain geek boy crazy hip hop rasta girl to keep it under wraps.”

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38. “Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”

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39. “Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”

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40. “In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”

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41. “I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.” “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”

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42. “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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43. “Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”

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44. “He was the kind of man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down.”

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45. “I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.”

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46. “If a boy gives a girl an orange her love for him will multiply.”

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47. “They are father and son, just not by blood. I didn’t know that family members could just find each other, choose each other like they have. I love the idea. And I’d like to trade in Dad and Noah for these two.”

— Jandy Nelson

48. “His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”

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49. “A broken heart is an open heart.”

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50. “It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.”

— Jandy Nelson