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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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Jandy Nelson
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
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Think
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Damn
Deeply
Realize
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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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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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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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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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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
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When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
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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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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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The Color Of Extraordinary.
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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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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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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
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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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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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... 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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