Top 500 Jandy Nelson Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Well-known fact: Life was a soggy sock you can’t take off.”

— Jandy Nelson

452. “I have a very low eerie threshold.”

— Jandy Nelson

453. “How is it possible that something can seem like such a brilliant idea one day and such a bonehead one the next?”

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454. “If only we could have joys without sorrows, blessings without curses.”

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455. “The music continues its fiery revolution all around us and there is a girl inside of me that wants to give in to the fanatical beat – she wants to dance wild and free all around the thumping, but unfortunately, that girl’s in me, not me.”

— Jandy Nelson

456. “I feel guilty that I’m still here...”

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457. “You are remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing.”

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458. “I have a heart so I can give it to you alone!”

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459. “Miles wished he’d stop being a human roller coaster, careening from one extreme to the next, whenever he thought about his brother.”

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460. “This boy beaming before me, however, seems to glow in a class all his own. He must be from a very friendly part of the Milky Way.”

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461. “We will never be those people again. She took them all with her.”

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462. “Like he owns the air in the Northern Hemisphere.”

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463. “Are stories prayers? Invitations? Mirrors? Storms? Or maybe they’re homes.”

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464. “I’ve never been to a party before, didn’t know it was like being miles and miles underground, where demons walk around with their hair on fire.”

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465. “During the day, everyone talks in colors instead of sounds. It’s so quiet.”

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466. “Most of the time people look less like you remember when you see them again. Not him. He’s shimmering in the air exactly like he’s been in my mind. He’s a light show.”

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467. “Doesn’t he know popular people aren’t revolutionaries?”

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468. “The truck blasts through the trees and I stick my hand out the window, trying to catch the wind in my palm like bails used to, missing her, missing the girl I used to be around her, missing who we all used to be. We will never be those people again. She took them all with her.”

— Jandy Nelson

469. “We’re petal people. I think about the earthquake kiss in the alcove and want to cry again.”

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470. “Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound.”

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471. “It’s about magic.” He shakes his head. “How could I have forgotten that?”

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472. “I don’t know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him.”

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473. “If people bear the trauma of their ancestors, doesn’t it follow that they also bear their rhapsodies? If there is generational pain passed down, mustn’t there also be generational joy? If there are family curses that drop through time, mustn’t there also be family blessings that do the same?”

— Jandy Nelson

474. “Bailey loved both Toby and me so much – he and I almost make up her whole heart, and maybe that’s it, what we were trying to do by being together, maybe we were trying to put her heart back together again.”

— Jandy Nelson

475. “We’re sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs.”

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476. “Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost.”

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477. “Los actos de atrapar al vuelo, lanzar, patear y golpear me producen alergia en todas sus versiones.”

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478. “I want to, though, want to do something, have to do something. Like kiss Brian. The idea snags me and then I can’t get out of it. I totally should’ve tried. But what if he’d punched me? Cracked my head open with a meteorite? Oh, but what if he hadn’t? What if he’d kissed me back? Because I’d catch him staring at me sometimes when he didn’t think I was paying attention to him. I was always paying attention to him.”

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479. “Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. “To be continued,” he says.”

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480. “His nose is like a capsized ship, his mouth the size of three, his jaw and cheekbones hefty as armor, and his eyes are iridescent. His face is a room overstuffed with massive furniture.”

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481. “Music was never a noun for you, it was always a verb. The only verb. You music-ed through the days and nights of your life.”

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482. “There is the world, remade.”

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483. “It’s amazing how what goes on in the head stays in the head.”

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484. “English people are so not asshats! I’m going to move there. William Blake was English.”

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485. “A real love story is not falling in love once, but again and again through all sorts of incarnations.”

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486. “Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.”

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487. “You hurt before you can be hurt.”

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488. “Their eternity was only each other.”

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489. “So we grapple with the mysteries, each in our own way.”

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490. “She dies over and over again, all day long.”

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491. “I was crashed un 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″.”

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492. “My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.”

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493. “Because it did used to be cool, super-cool, in fact – she was our Magellan, our Marco Polo, one of the wayward Walker women whose restless boundless spirit propels her from place to place, love to love, moment to unpredictable moment.”

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494. “God, you’re gorgeous,” I blurt out and want to die because I can’t believe I said it aloud and neither can he – his smile, so huge now, he can’t even get any words past it.”

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495. “I think you could devastate me.”

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496. “The dawn light’s swimming through the trees, making the leaves gleam. A glisk, I think, tattooed on my wrist, maybe my favourite word of all. Because ultimately and ideally, isn’t that what life is: a fleeting glance at a glittering sight.”

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497. “Grandma would put up the closed sign for my sewing lessons. At the table in the back of her shop, I’d sit on her lap and breathe in her flowery scent while learning to cut and drape and stitch. “Everyone gets a one-and-only and you’re mine,” she’d tell me. “Why me?” I’d always ask, and she’d nudge her elbow into my ribs and say something silly like, “Because you have such long toes, of course.”

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498. “I tell her every detail. How he came over every morning with croissants, how we played music together, how he made Gram and Big so happy just by being in the house, how we drank wine last night and kissed until I was sure I had walked right into the sky. I told her how I think I can hear his heart beating even when he’s not there, how I feel like flowers – Gargantuan ones – are blooming in my chest.”

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499. “I think in this moment how maybe I’m always all the girls I’ve ever been, how the now-me is just all the old-mes thrown together.”

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500. “Que me das un miedo terrible. Que a ti no te puedo poner barreras como a todo el mundo. Que me aterra la posibilidad de que me rompas.”

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