Top 500 Jandy Nelson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The sky’s always falling. Always. You’ll see. People have no idea.”

— Jandy Nelson

102. “I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.”

— Jandy Nelson

103. “And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.”

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104. “When I’m with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.”

— Jandy Nelson

105. “The architecture of my sister’s thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.”

— Jandy Nelson

106. “We exhale together, then inhale together, exhale, inhale, in and out, out and in, until not even the trees remember what happened in the woods yesterday, until Mom’s and Dad’s voices turn from mad to music, until we’re not only one age, but one complete and whole person.”

— Jandy Nelson

107. “Gotta bounce,” I say, remembering that’s what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.”

— Jandy Nelson

108. “I need my skull in one piece. Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what’s inside it.”

— Jandy Nelson

109. “He leans against the doorframe. Some guys are born to lean. He’s definitely one of them. James Dean was another.”

— Jandy Nelson

110. “Hey maybe you have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome!”

— Jandy Nelson

111. “How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”

— Jandy Nelson

112. “I think the heart of every living thing on earth is beating in my body.”

— Jandy Nelson

113. “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

114. “My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That’s just how it is. 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.”

— Jandy Nelson

115. “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

116. “A veces uno se desconecta de su propia vida y, cuando lo hace, cuesta bastante encontrar el camino de vuelta.”

— Jandy Nelson

117. “Because who knows? Who knows anything? Who knows who’s pulling the strings? Or what is? Or how? Who knows if destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life?”

— Jandy Nelson

118. “I turn around, remembering again that we got made together, cell for cell. We were keeping each other company when we didn’t have any eyes or hands. Before our soul even got delivered.”

— Jandy Nelson

119. “Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.”

— Jandy Nelson

120. “Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people.”

— Jandy Nelson

121. “Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.”

— Jandy Nelson

122. “It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.”

— Jandy Nelson

123. “There’s a sob building inside me so immense and powerful it’s going to break all my bird bones. It’s Judemageddon.”

— Jandy Nelson

124. “Moments pass, lots and lots of them, with us holding on, it feels like for dear life, or maybe holding on to dear life.”

— Jandy Nelson

125. “And I’m the only bat in this belfry?”

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126. “I look up at the shining silvery coin of a moon rolling around in the sky and think I might be seeing the miracles.”

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127. “Our eyes meet and hold, and the world starts to fall away, time does, years rolling up like rugs, until everything that’s happened unhappens, and for a moment, it’s us again, more one than two.”

— Jandy Nelson

128. “Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs.”

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129. “I let it. I let my heart break. And Noah is there, strong and sturdy, to catch me, to hold me through it, to make sure I’m safe.”

— Jandy Nelson

130. “We’re under a streetlamp and I’m trying not to stare but it’s hard. I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want. There’ something going on in his face right now, something very bright trying to get out – a dam keeping back a wall of light. His soul might the a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”

— Jandy Nelson

131. “Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.”

— Jandy Nelson

132. “I can see sound, the dark green howling wind, the crimson crush of rain – all.”

— Jandy Nelson

133. “I don’t want to imagine meadows, I want to run through them.”

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134. “I felt a springing in my chest. Could Dad and I be close? Like a real father and son?”

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135. “The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.”

— Jandy Nelson

136. “He was telling us that Thoroughbred racing horses have these companion ponies that always stay by their sides, and I remember thinking, That’s me. I’m a companion pony, and companion ponies don’t solo. They don’t play first chair or audition for All-State or compete nationally or seriously consider a certain performing arts conservatory in New York City like Marguerite had begun insisting. They just don’t.”

— Jandy Nelson

137. “I love pizza, meaning: Even when I’m in the middle of eating pizza, I wish I were eating pizza.”

— Jandy Nelson

138. “Every morning she used to stand on the deck staring out at the water. The wind would stream through her hair, her robe would billow behind her. It was like she was at the helm of a ship, you know? It was like she was steering us across the sky. Every day it was like that. Every day I thought that. The image is always somewhere in my mind. Always.”

— Jandy Nelson

139. “Thou shalt remake the world.”

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140. “Hummingbirds laze around him. Fruit falls out of trees right into his open palms... I’ve never felt this relaxed in my life. I keep forgetting my body and then have to go back and get it.”

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141. “I find her and find her and find her but I can’t find her.”

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142. “Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks.”

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143. “I don’t deserve a love story. Not anymore. Love stories aren’t written for girls who could do what I just did to my brother, for girls with black hearts.”

— Jandy Nelson

144. “I don’t believe time heals. I don’t want it to. If I heal, doesn’t that mean I’ve accepted the world without her?”

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145. “I feel a smile sweep across my face, remembering all the light showers, the dark showers, picking up rocks and finding spinning planets, days with thousands of pockets, grabbing moments like apples, hopping fences into forever.”

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146. “I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren’t team players.”

— Jandy Nelson

147. “For a moment, in his arms, with my mind so close to his heart, I listen to the wind pick up and think it just might lift us off our feet and take us with it.”

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148. “No one tells you how gone gone really is, or how long it lasts.”

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149. “I’ve no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.”

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150. “I can’t shove the dark out of my way.”

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