Jandy NelsonFor the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.27, Pen… ▶351Time
Jandy NelsonThis is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invent… ▶341LifeReadingThought
Jandy NelsonAccording 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 d… ▶376Time
Jandy NelsonOur tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.85, Penguin321Love
Jandy NelsonLife’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 be… ▶311LifeLoveTruth
Jandy NelsonI don't know how the heart withstands it. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.173, Penguin367Love
Jandy NelsonWhen people fall in love, they burst into flames. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2014). I'll Give You the Sun, p.15, Penguin334HumanityLove
Jandy NelsonI suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.32, Penguin367HopeTime
Jandy NelsonI 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 (2010). The Sky Is Everyw… ▶378Love
Jandy NelsonBut then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len… ▶302DeathLifeThought
Jandy NelsonThere once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed her too much, was way too sad, so she crossed some p… ▶346DeathLifeSadness
Jandy NelsonI wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.34, Penguin291Hope
Jandy NelsonI've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.12, Penguin368Humanity
Jandy NelsonI wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.… ▶335HumanitySadness
Jandy NelsonMusic: what life, what living itself sounds like. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.164, Penguin379Life
Jandy NelsonRemember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mou… ▶347LifeLove
Jandy NelsonBut what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks? ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.63, Penguin292Love
Jandy NelsonWhen he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.83, Penguin336Politics
Jandy NelsonThis 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 par… ▶303Time
Jandy NelsonHe's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be li… ▶314LifeLoveSadness
Jandy NelsonHe doesn't have to say it, i feel it too; it's not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once, loud and clanging, hungry ones and tiny, happy, chiming ones, a… ▶3710Time
Jandy NelsonThe 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. ✨ Jandy… ▶326Hope
Jandy NelsonHow will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slep… ▶282DeathHumanityLove
Jandy NelsonSomeone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.113, Penguin326Sadness
Jandy NelsonGrief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.163, Penguin337Sadness
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? ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). T… ▶282Time
Jandy NelsonI could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress. ✨ Jandy Nelson (2010). The Sky Is Everywhere, p.77, Penguin293LifeSadness
Jandy NelsonThere were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they… ▶294Time
Jandy NelsonAnd then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.316Humanity
Jandy NelsonHe smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then removes it, and heads back into the living roo… ▶294LifeLoveTime
