Quote

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Jandy Nelson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
World
Safe
Place

More quotes by Jandy Nelson

Image
It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
Jandy Nelson
Image
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
Jandy Nelson
Image
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
Jandy Nelson
Image
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
Jandy Nelson
Image
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.
Jandy Nelson
Image
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
Image
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!?
Jandy Nelson
Image
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
Jandy Nelson
Image
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
Image
I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
Jandy Nelson
Image
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
Jandy Nelson
Image
Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
Jandy Nelson
Image
The Color Of Extraordinary.
Jandy Nelson
Image
In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
Jandy Nelson
Image
... 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?
Jandy Nelson
Image
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
Jandy Nelson
Image
I can't shove the dark out of my way.
Jandy Nelson
Image
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
Jandy Nelson
Image
That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
Jandy Nelson
Image
No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.
Jandy Nelson