506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

We haven't talked in five months and we both look like different people, but it's the same, same, same.

I want to go!" I explode. "I don't want a tamped-down spirit!" I realize these are the first words I've uttered outside my head this entire meal. Mom beams at me. He cant talk her out of this. There are no surftards there, I know it. Probably only kids whose blood glows. Only revolutionaries.

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.

Male leads in love stories need to be devoted, need to chase trains, cross continents, give up fortunes and thrones, defy convention, face prosecution, take apart rooms and break the backs of angels, sketch the beloved all over the cement walls of their studios, build sculptures as homages. They don't flirt shamelessly with the likes of me when they have Transylvanian girlfriends. What an effing jerk.

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

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.