Jandy Nelson Quotations

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...

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

Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It’s all a beautiful calamitous mess.

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

Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

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

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.