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She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
Wraps
Kissed
Beach
Sun
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It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.
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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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I can't shove the dark out of my way.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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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?
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I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
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It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
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The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
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Grief is forever. It doesn't go away it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
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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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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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Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
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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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We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.
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