506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.

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.

I suspect that inside the impenetrable fortress of conventionality he’s become, there’s one crazy-ass museum.

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.

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

He was telling us that Thoroughbred racing horses have these companion ponies that always stay by their sides, and I remember thinking, That’s me. I’m a companion pony, and companion ponies don’t solo. They don’t play first chair or audition for All-State or compete nationally or seriously consider a certain performing arts conservatory in New York City like Marguerite had begun insisting. They just don’t.

And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.

Mothers are the parachutes.

What if there was a time when I was going through hell too, but I didn’t have the courage to keep going? So I just stopped. Pressed pause. What if I’m still on pause?