506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

Nothing curdles love in the heart like lemon on the tongue.

This is wishing with your hands.

Hummingbirds laze around him. Fruit falls out of trees right into his open palms... I’ve never felt this relaxed in my life. I keep forgetting my body and then have to go back and get it.

I let it. I let my heart break. And Noah is there, strong and sturdy, to catch me, to hold me through it, to make sure I’m safe.

But then all of all a sudden the breath is kicked out of me and I’m shoved onto the cold hard concrete floor of my life now, because I remember I can’t run home after school and tell Bails about a new boy in band. My sister dies over and over again, all day long.

I can unzip the air and disappear inside it.

Deseamos con nuestras manos; eso es lo que hacemos los artistas.

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it’s night, day breaks.

You duck! You flying yellow duck! And you took this long to tell me?!” When Sarah gets excited, random animals pop into her speech like she has an Old MacDonald Had a Farm kind of Tourette syndrome.