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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Jandy Nelson

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
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New York City
New York
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Stories
People

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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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The Color Of Extraordinary.
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Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
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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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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.
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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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And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
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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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Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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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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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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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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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
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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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