506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

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    She’s like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I’m pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust.

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    I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

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    Again and again his tongue returns to that space between his front teeth. I’ll look at this tree instead.

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    Everything’s going to be okay, sweetheart,” she says because she’s a people-mechanic and always knows when I’m malfunctioning.

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    Noah once told me he could hear horses galloping inside her. I got it.

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    I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren’t team players.

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    Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. Jude and me have one soul between us that we have to share: a tree with its leaves on fire. And Dad has a plate of maggots for his.

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

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