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Jandy Nelson Quote: “At the same time, we reach for each other and then we’re in each other’s arms, joined together, pressed together, but this time not kissing, not moving, just holding each other so tightly. Moments pass, lots and lots of them, with us holding on, it feels like for dear life, or maybe holding on to dear life. So dear.”

401. “At the same time, we reach for each other and then we’re in each other’s arms, joined together, pressed together, but this time not kissing, not moving, just holding each other so tightly. Moments pass, lots and lots of them, with us holding on, it feels like for dear life, or maybe holding on to dear life. So dear.”

— Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Quote: “I’m standing on my own head!”

402. “I’m standing on my own head!”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “She can’t just barge into my most secret world and then try to show me around it. Get out, I want to holler at her. Get out of my room. Get out of my life. Get out of my paintings. Get out of everything! Blow back to your realm already and leave me alone. How can you take this experience away from me before I’ve even gotten to experience it.”

403. “She can’t just barge into my most secret world and then try to show me around it. Get out, I want to holler at her. Get out of my room. Get out of my life. Get out of my paintings. Get out of everything! Blow back to your realm already and leave me alone. How can you take this experience away from me before I’ve even gotten to experience it.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “And it’s just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there’s no overlap.”

404. “And it’s just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there’s no overlap.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I watch the vein in his neck pulse. I watch him convert oxygen to carbon dioxide. I watch him existing and existing and existing.”

405. “I watch the vein in his neck pulse. I watch him convert oxygen to carbon dioxide. I watch him existing and existing and existing.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Me too.” I pick up a stick, start digging with it. “Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”

406. “Me too.” I pick up a stick, start digging with it. “Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Las personas, cuando se enamoran, arden en llamas.”

407. “Las personas, cuando se enamoran, arden en llamas.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.”

408. “There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “He smiles wildly, looks like love itself stuffed into a pair of jeans, black T-shirt, and backward baseball cap.”

409. “He smiles wildly, looks like love itself stuffed into a pair of jeans, black T-shirt, and backward baseball cap.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Es bastante aburrido, pero los jugadores, bueno, ya saben...”

410. “Es bastante aburrido, pero los jugadores, bueno, ya saben...”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I’m awake, I guess, and maybe that’s good, but it’s more complicated than that because now I’m someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time.”

411. “I’m awake, I guess, and maybe that’s good, but it’s more complicated than that because now I’m someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I did four pastel drawings from the permanent collection – a Chagall, a Franz Marc, and two Picassos. I picked those because I could tell the paintings were looking at me as hard as I was looking at them.”

412. “I did four pastel drawings from the permanent collection – a Chagall, a Franz Marc, and two Picassos. I picked those because I could tell the paintings were looking at me as hard as I was looking at them.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we’re made of the same air.”

413. “Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we’re made of the same air.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “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.”

414. “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

Jandy Nelson Quote: “Het hart overmeestert het verstand. Hoop of angst overmeestert de rede.”

415. “Het hart overmeestert het verstand. Hoop of angst overmeestert de rede.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “But I’m his son, his gargantuan son. I’m a whirling, ass-kicking Goliath, a typhoon wrapped in skin, and then I’m writhing and thrashing and trying to break free and they’re wrestling me back down, laughing and saying things like “what a crazy mother.”

416. “But I’m his son, his gargantuan son. I’m a whirling, ass-kicking Goliath, a typhoon wrapped in skin, and then I’m writhing and thrashing and trying to break free and they’re wrestling me back down, laughing and saying things like “what a crazy mother.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Was the sky always this shade of magenta?”

417. “Was the sky always this shade of magenta?”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world.”

418. “Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Mom used to say when you look at art, it’s half seeing, half dreaming. Same with ghosts, maybe.”

419. “Mom used to say when you look at art, it’s half seeing, half dreaming. Same with ghosts, maybe.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “El amor hace y deshace. Atrae la dicha y la desdicha con igual intensidad.”

420. “El amor hace y deshace. Atrae la dicha y la desdicha con igual intensidad.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “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.”

421. “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.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Man overboard,” he murmurs, wrapping me up in his arms and we’re laughing and then the laughing dies out because who knew kissing could be like this, could so alter the landscape within, tipping over oceans, sending rivers up mountains, unpouring the rain.”

422. “Man overboard,” he murmurs, wrapping me up in his arms and we’re laughing and then the laughing dies out because who knew kissing could be like this, could so alter the landscape within, tipping over oceans, sending rivers up mountains, unpouring the rain.”

— Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Quote: “You’re the author of you own story.”

423. “You’re the author of you own story.”

— Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Quote: “That’s what happened to him then: love. Tragic, impossible love.”

424. “That’s what happened to him then: love. Tragic, impossible love.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I try to calm myself by counting his freckles to see if there are any that are new.”

425. “I try to calm myself by counting his freckles to see if there are any that are new.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost.”

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

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “As the days pass, Paige Walker’s love of lilacs and ability to boil water have the singular effect of washing sixteen years of myth right off of her.”

427. “As the days pass, Paige Walker’s love of lilacs and ability to boil water have the singular effect of washing sixteen years of myth right off of her.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I’m so happy, I feel like I’m jumping on a trampoline, just boinging around inside myself.”

428. “I’m so happy, I feel like I’m jumping on a trampoline, just boinging around inside myself.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Lots of questions go unanswered.”

429. “Lots of questions go unanswered.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “It’s like finally going to confession only to find out the priest has earplugs in.”

430. “It’s like finally going to confession only to find out the priest has earplugs in.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I go up to The Sanctum and put on the most obnoxious head-banging punk music I have, a San Francisco band called Filth.”

431. “I go up to The Sanctum and put on the most obnoxious head-banging punk music I have, a San Francisco band called Filth.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I’ve disappeared, which is good really, because suddenly I don’t have a clue what to do with my face or body or smashed-up heart.”

432. “I’ve disappeared, which is good really, because suddenly I don’t have a clue what to do with my face or body or smashed-up heart.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “A sorrowing heart poisons recipes.”

433. “A sorrowing heart poisons recipes.”

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

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

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “She dies over and over again, all day long.”

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

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “And even as I’m kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can’t get enough, never will be able to get enough.”

436. “And even as I’m kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can’t get enough, never will be able to get enough.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “My first day back to school is just as I expect, the hall does a red sea part when I come in, conversations hush, eyes swim with nervous sympathy, and everyone stares as if I’m holding Bailey’s dead body in my arms, which I guess I am. Her death is all over me, I can feel it and everyone can see it, plain as a big black coat wrapped around me on a beautiful spring day.”

437. “My first day back to school is just as I expect, the hall does a red sea part when I come in, conversations hush, eyes swim with nervous sympathy, and everyone stares as if I’m holding Bailey’s dead body in my arms, which I guess I am. Her death is all over me, I can feel it and everyone can see it, plain as a big black coat wrapped around me on a beautiful spring day.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “What’s up with the plant?” He points to the despairing Lennie houseplant in the middle of the table. It looks like it has leprosy. We all go silent, because what do we say about my doppelganger houseplant? “It’s Lennie, it’s dying, and frankly, we don’t know what to do about it,” Big booms with finality.”

438. “What’s up with the plant?” He points to the despairing Lennie houseplant in the middle of the table. It looks like it has leprosy. We all go silent, because what do we say about my doppelganger houseplant? “It’s Lennie, it’s dying, and frankly, we don’t know what to do about it,” Big booms with finality.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “And the right thing is turning our backs on what might be the love story of our lives? The right thing is denying destiny, denying all the forces that have conspired to bring us together, forces that have been at work for years now? No way.”

439. “And the right thing is turning our backs on what might be the love story of our lives? The right thing is denying destiny, denying all the forces that have conspired to bring us together, forces that have been at work for years now? No way.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Y ahora hay caballos galopando dentro de ella. Los oigo.”

440. “Y ahora hay caballos galopando dentro de ella. Los oigo.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I want to hurl a building at God.”

441. “I want to hurl a building at God.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “His eyes warm at that- it kills me. What are we going to do with all this love?”

442. “His eyes warm at that- it kills me. What are we going to do with all this love?”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “He didn’t know the moment he left in the morning, I’d go through the secret sketchpads he hid under his bed. It was like he’d discovered a whole new color spectrum. It was like he’d found another galaxy of imagery. It was like he’d replaced me.”

443. “He didn’t know the moment he left in the morning, I’d go through the secret sketchpads he hid under his bed. It was like he’d discovered a whole new color spectrum. It was like he’d found another galaxy of imagery. It was like he’d replaced me.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Hey one sec, Oscar.” I catch him outside the door and brush a layer of dust off the back of his jacket. “That’s one dirty floor,” I say as I slip the hot burning words into his pocket. As I press play on my life.”

444. “Hey one sec, Oscar.” I catch him outside the door and brush a layer of dust off the back of his jacket. “That’s one dirty floor,” I say as I slip the hot burning words into his pocket. As I press play on my life.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I held on to his arm, which was belted securely around me, feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night.”

445. “I held on to his arm, which was belted securely around me, feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “A comfortable quiet falls over us. Really comfortable, like we’ve lain on filthy floors corpselike together for several lifetimes now.”

446. “A comfortable quiet falls over us. Really comfortable, like we’ve lain on filthy floors corpselike together for several lifetimes now.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body – this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.”

447. “Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body – this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I’m at the edge of the world looking for my brother.”

448. “I’m at the edge of the world looking for my brother.”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “Who knows if destiny is just how you tell yourself the stroy of your life?”

449. “Who knows if destiny is just how you tell yourself the stroy of your life?”

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Jandy Nelson Quote: “I blow up the freaking country. No one notices.”

450. “I blow up the freaking country. No one notices.”

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