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“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― 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

“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
― 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

“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.”
― 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

“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

“It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”
― 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

“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

“A broken heart is an open heart.”
― 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

“And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —E.E. CUMMINGS”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Who knows if [maybe] destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in half and scattered all the halves around the world so that humans were doomed to forever look for their other half, the one who shared their very soul. Only the luckiest humans find their split-apart, you see.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“When I draw it, I’m going to make my skin see-through and what you’ll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages.”
― 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

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

“Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“You're late."

"Sorry. I was busy talking about my feelings and killing people.”
― Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite