506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks.

I’ve no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

He looks at me incredulously. “I think you’re amazing... ” Why would he think this? Bailey is amazing and Gram and Big, and of course Mom, but not me. I am the two-dimensional one in a 3-D Family.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill.

Hope or fear overcomes reason.

We’re under a streetlamp and I’m trying not to stare but it’s hard. I wish the world would stick like a clock so I could look at him for as long as I want. There’ something going on in his face right now, something very bright trying to get out – a dam keeping back a wall of light. His soul might the a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.

And there are horses galloping inside her. I can hear them.

The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.

I understand the quicksand of shame.