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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
Jandy Nelson
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Jandy Nelson
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
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New York City
New York
Miracles
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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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The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
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I can't shove the dark out of my way.
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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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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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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.
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And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
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Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
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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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... 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 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 wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
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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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But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.
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The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
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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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