Top 500 Jandy Nelson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “In the worlds I make, anything could happen.”

— Jandy Nelson

252. “I don’t understand. I don’t. How can the same guy who took those photos of me and wrote those notes to me be making out with another girl on the other side of this door?”

— Jandy Nelson

253. “She looks like she’s holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war.”

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254. “Again and again his tongue returns to that space between his front teeth. I’ll look at this tree instead.”

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255. “Oscore is my favorite model,” he says. “He has a very strange face. I don’t know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him. A little bit of this. A little bit of that. Brown eye. Green eye. Crooked nose, crooked mouth. Lunatic smile. Chipped tooth. Scar here, scar there. It is a puzzle.”

— Jandy Nelson

256. “What happened between us has colonized every last brain cell. I can barely tie my shoelaces. I forgot how to chew this morning.”

— Jandy Nelson

257. “Isn’t that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I’ve been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.”

— Jandy Nelson

258. “Okay. Not gay. Not lovers, they both just appear to like donuts more than your average bear.”

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259. “She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting.”

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260. “I’d rather sit next to Brian for two hours in a dark theater than have a wall painting party with Jackson Pollock.”

— Jandy Nelson

261. “She’s a people-mechanic and always knows when I’m malfunctioning.”

— Jandy Nelson

262. “His laugh cartwheels across the room.”

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263. “So much blood’s rushing and gushing to my head it might blow straight off my neck.”

— Jandy Nelson

264. “If someone told me I could hang out in da Vinci’s studio while he painted the Mona Lisa or go up on Brian’s roof with him at night – I’m on the roof.”

— Jandy Nelson

265. “Dad puts one hand on either side of the frame, filling the entire doorway, filling the Continental United States. How can I hate him and wish I were more like him at the same time?”

— Jandy Nelson

266. “Parents aren’t allowed to kiss like this!”

— Jandy Nelson

267. “I suspect that inside the impenetrable fortress of conventionality he’s become, there’s one crazy-ass museum.”

— Jandy Nelson

268. “Her face slides off her face – no one can keep their faces on today – and the one underneath is desperate.”

— Jandy Nelson

269. “It’s horrible to see her, like walking out of the best movie ever into some old afternoon.”

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270. “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

271. “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

272. “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.”

— Jandy Nelson

273. “When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she’s whispering in my ear.”

— Jandy Nelson

274. “To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

— Jandy Nelson

275. “What if there was a time when I was going through hell too, but I didn’t have the courage to keep going? So I just stopped. Pressed pause. What if I’m still on pause?”

— Jandy Nelson

276. “I can unzip the air and disappear inside it.”

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277. “His eyes have become gentle. I’m swimming in them.”

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278. “I can’t seem to keep you out like I can everyone else. That I think you could devastate me.”

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279. “The coolest guys aren’t afraid to be feminists.”

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280. “No one’s like you, for me.”

— Jandy Nelson

281. “A leopard can’t change its spots, now can it?”

— Jandy Nelson

282. “I could step out of this sad life like it’s an old sorry dress.”

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283. “Male leads in love stories need to be devoted, need to chase trains, cross continents, give up fortunes and thrones, defy convention, face prosecution, take apart rooms and break the backs of angels, sketch the beloved all over the cement walls of their studios, build sculptures as homages. They don’t flirt shamelessly with the likes of me when they have Transylvanian girlfriends. What an effing jerk.”

— Jandy Nelson

284. “I’m only two hours thrity-seven minutes and thirteen seconds younger than Jude, but she always makes me feel like I’m her little brother.”

— Jandy Nelson

285. “We hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.”

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286. “I don’t know how the heart withstands it.”

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287. “I’ve forgotten quite how luminous he is, like another species of human that doesn’t have blood but light running through their veins.”

— Jandy Nelson

288. “What am I doing? Well, I’m doing it.”

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289. “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

290. “I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first.”

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291. “Las personas mueren, pero nuestras relaciones con ellas no. Perviven y se transforman por siempre.”

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292. “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. Awesome. Doomsday’s most definitely been cancelled. Landscape: When God Paints Outside The Lines.”

— Jandy Nelson

293. “It’s the easiest thing to be lost if you don’t want to be found.”

— Jandy Nelson

294. “I let it. I let my heart break.”

— Jandy Nelson

295. “Thanks,′ I say, and the cloak of being fine that I wear with everyone else slips right off my shoulders.”

— Jandy Nelson

296. “Gravity Dress maybe? – and then, that’s.”

— Jandy Nelson

297. “The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.”

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298. “If I don’t talk about it, I can just pretend it didn’t happen.”

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299. “He smiles, but I can see his inside face nod it isn’t smiling at all.”

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300. “Hope or fear overcomes reason.”

— Jandy Nelson