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We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
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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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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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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 people fall in love, they burst into flames.
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But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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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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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
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Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
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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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She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.
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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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... 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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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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I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
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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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Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
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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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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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