506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.

I let it. I let my heart break.

Wear only oversized hoodies, oversized jeans, and sneakers. Stay quiet.

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.

Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.

He floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.

That’s exactly it – I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

Oscore is my favorite model,” he says. “He has a very strange face. I don’t know if you notice. God was very drunk when he made him. A little bit of this. A little bit of that. Brown eye. Green eye. Crooked nose, crooked mouth. Lunatic smile. Chipped tooth. Scar here, scar there. It is a puzzle.

Dad used to make Mom’s eyes shine; now he makes her grind her teeth. I don’t know why.