Jandy Nelson quotes

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)

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

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The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

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It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

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When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

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We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

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Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

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How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

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I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

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I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries. (Jandy Nelson)

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.

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For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

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According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

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I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

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It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

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I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

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I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? (Jandy Nelson)

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.

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Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

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Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

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And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

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Jandy Nelson

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Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0

Occupation: American Writer
Born: November 25, 1965
Quotes count: 35

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