Top 500 Jandy Nelson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.”

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302. “For days and days, the rain beat its fists on the roof of our house – evidence of the terrible mistake God had made. Each morning, when I woke I listened for the tireless pounding, looked at the drear through the window and was relieved that at least the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.”

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303. “I, however, am a different story. I have not taught in years. I will not. Probably not ever again.”

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304. “Before they can grin there fake smiles, I mumble something about a toilet, laugh a second too late at some joke, and then, without looking back, I speed-walk to the house like someone whose heart isn’t shaking, whose eyes aren’t filling up, someone who doesn’t feel so sad.”

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305. “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.”

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

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307. “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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308. “And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.”

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309. “He’s grinning now. “Also I think you’re really pretty and I’m incredibly shallow.”

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310. “Dad used to make Mom’s eyes shine; now he makes her grind her teeth. I don’t know why.”

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311. “Who wants to know we are just one carefree breath away from the end? Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever?”

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312. “I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn’t even going to happen.”

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313. “If only the heart listen to reason, right?”

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314. “This is wishing with your hands.”

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315. “I do not know why I do much of anything.”

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316. “I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.”

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317. “If ever there was a boy in love, sweet pea, it’s Joe Fontaine.”

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318. “And then we are kissing, so far into the sky I don’t think we’re ever coming back. If anyone asks where we are, just tell them to look up.”

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319. “Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath... Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other.”

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320. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,’” Oscar says to me, still balancing on the back legs of his chair. “William Blake.”

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321. “I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth.”

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322. “But boy do I miss proposing, nothing so romantic. Make sure you try it, at least once, Len – it’s skydiving with your feet on the ground.”

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323. “Yes, so if God can have two tries, why not us? Or three or three hundred tries.”

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324. “I think you might very well be the most eccentric person I’ve ever met.”

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325. “She smiles at me and it sends a warm summer breeze around the room.”

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326. “Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before.”

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327. “I don’t know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly rhe same and entirely different every single time you look at it.”

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328. “The idea’s an instant mood-lifter. I’m going to take up more space in a room than my father.”

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329. “See? Other mothers don’t have their own private weather.”

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330. “What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?”

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331. “Your first lesson: My studio is not a democracy. Have a donut.”

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332. “I’m having a hand problem. How come everyone else seems to know what to do with them? Pockets, I remember with relief, pockets, I love pockets!”

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333. “When glaciers break up due to rising world temperatures, its called calving. I’m calving.”

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334. “You misunderstand”, Guillermo says. “I believe in everything”.”

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335. “Noah once told me he could hear horses galloping inside her. I got it.”

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336. “I was going to show your brother Gemini-the Twins.”

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337. “All that matters is the worlds I can make, not this toilet-licking one I have to live in.”

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338. “Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me.”

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339. “What are we going to do with all this love?”

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340. “If she were drowning, I’d hold her head under.”

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341. “I understand the quicksand of shame.”

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342. “My heart’s bigger than a blue whale’s, which needs its own parking spot.”

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343. “Love is stronger than anything, even death.”

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344. “And when you’re tired, you crawl into your flower and go to sleep. During the day, everyone talks in colors instead of sounds. It’s so quiet.” She closes her eyes, says slowly, “When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

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345. “And the feeling is unmistakable: I’m free.”

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346. “She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking.”

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347. “Life is contradiction.”

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348. “I understand. Not the circumstances, but the shame. I understand the quicksand of shame.”

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349. “I look up at the warmth in his face and smile at him. I think he could make me smile even while I was hanging at the gallows.”

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350. “Per your request and his, this is how it’s going to be from now on. When I want to ask you to abandoned buildings or kiss those lips of yours or stare into your otherworldly eyes or imagine what you look like under all those baggy drab clothes you’re always hiding in or ravish you on some grimy floor like I’m desperate to this very minute, I’ll just bugger off on my Hippity Hop. Deal?”

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