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“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“No one tells you how gone gone really is, or how long it lasts.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“People think people are in charge, but they're wrong; it's the trees.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Pockets are hand jails.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It takes a lot of courage to be true to yourself, true to your heart.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I understand the quicksand of shame.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Revolutionaries aren't team players.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“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.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Everything is true at once. Life is a contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“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?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“A broken heart is an open heart.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun