Jandy Nelson
Writer
1965-06-24
Quotes by Jandy Nelson
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The coolest guys aren't afraid to be feminists.
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Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
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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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She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.
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How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
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Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?
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For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, I'll consider it.
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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.
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Was the sky always this shade of magenta?
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Are you an artist?I'm a mess is what I am, he says, holding on to the building for support. A bloody mess. You 're the artist, mate. Then he's gone.
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SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air
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Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.
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Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.
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No I contradict myself. Picasso he do too. He say pull out your brain, yes, he also say, 'Painting is a blind man's profession' and 'To draw you must close your eyes and sing.' And Michelangelo, he say he sculpts with his brains, not his eyes. Yes. Everything ia true at once. Life is contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works. Okay, now pick up the charcoal and draw.
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And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.
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The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.
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Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.
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it's okay to be addicted to beauty, Mom says, all dreamy. Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.
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This is our story to tell. He says it in his Ten Commandments way and it hits me that way: profoundly. You'd think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven't. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always feel like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in ita telling whatsoever.You can tell your story any way you damn well please.It's your solo.
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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. Awesome. Doomsday's most definitely been cancelled. Landscape: When God Paints Outside The Lines
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