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The Color Of Extraordinary.
Jandy Nelson
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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
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New York City
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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.
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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.
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This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. Who knew all this time I was one kiss away from being Cathy and Juliet and Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Chatterley!?
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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
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We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
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grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
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When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
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She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
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I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.
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Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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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.
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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
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... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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