506 Quotes by Jandy Nelson

Grief was a room filled with hungry desperate light.

I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first.

I need my skull in one piece. Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what’s inside it.

Hey maybe you have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome!

We were partners in sewing. And partners in luck-hunting: four-leaf clovers, sand-dollar birds, red sea glass, clouds shaped like hearts, the first daffodils of spring, ladybugs, ladies in oversized hats. Best to bet on all the horses, dear, she’d say. Quick, make a wish, she’d say. I bet. I wished. I was her disciple. I still am.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. – WILLA CATHER.

That’s just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other.

Before leaving school I consorted with The Oracle: Google.

But what if I don’t need her permission, her approval, her praise to be who I want to be and do what I love? What if I’m in charge of my own damn light switch?