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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
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New York City
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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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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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The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
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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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The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
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Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
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For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
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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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When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
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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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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
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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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I can't shove the dark out of my way.
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And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
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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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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
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Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
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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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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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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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