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What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
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He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
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There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw that back on earth
her sister missed her too much,
was way too sad,
so she crossed some paths
that would not have crossed,
took some moments in her hand
shook them up
and spilled them like dice
over the living world.
It worked.
The boy with the guitar collided
with her sister.
"There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life, Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
I drop on my back on the bed, panting and sweating. How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death, Love
Jandy Nelson
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They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
This is our story to tell. 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 story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
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Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Death, Life, Love, Relationships
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Inspirational
Jandy Nelson
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And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw that back on earth
her sister missed her too much,
was way too sad,
so she crossed some paths
that would not have crossed,
took some moments in her hand
shook them up
and spilled them like dice
over the living world.
It worked.
The boy with the guitar collided
with her sister.
"There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life, Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
I drop on my back on the bed, panting and sweating. How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death, Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
This is our story to tell. 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 story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Death, Life, Love, Relationships
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Inspirational
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw that back on earth
her sister missed her too much,
was way too sad,
so she crossed some paths
that would not have crossed,
took some moments in her hand
shook them up
and spilled them like dice
over the living world.
It worked.
The boy with the guitar collided
with her sister.
"There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life, Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
I drop on my back on the bed, panting and sweating. How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Death, Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
This is our story to tell. 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 story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Life
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Death, Life, Love, Relationships
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
From The Sky Is Everywhere
Topic: Inspirational
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson
NOT YET RATED▼
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
From I'll Give You the Sun
Topic: Love
Jandy Nelson