How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?
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Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson (born 1965) is an American author of young adult fiction. Prior to her career as an author, Nelson worked for 13 years as a literary agent. She holds a BA from Cornell University as well as MFAs in poetry and children's writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Nelson lives in San Francisco, California. 2Works Nelson's 2010 novel, The Sky Is Everywhere, follows seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker as she copes with her sister's death. Torn between loss and self-discovery, Lennie must learn to be the lead player in her own life. The Sky Is Everywhere is a YALSA pick for Best Fiction for Young Adults, made numerous appearances on best of the year lists including those for National Public Radio, the Chicago Public Library, and the Horn Book, and as of April 2015 is published in over 20 countries. Nelson's second novel, New York Times bestseller I'll Give You the Sun, was published in 2014, and centers on hyper-competitive yet close twins Noah and Jude. As a series of family tragedies and misunderstandings creates a rift between the two, only by coming back together can they fully understand their story and set the world right again. I'll Give You the Sun won the prestigious Printz Award, a Stonewall Honor, Bank Street's Josette Frank Award, and is listed on numerous best of the year lists, including the 2015 YALSA Top 10 Best Fiction for Young Adults, NPR, Time magazine, and Rainbow List Top 1
How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?
I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get…
In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get…
I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
Grief is a house where no one can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out.
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
No [person] can resist [another, who] has tidal waves and earthquakes beneath the skin.
I’m thinking the reason I’ve been so quiet all those years is only because he wasn’t around yet for me to tell everything to.
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.
What is bad for the heart is good for the art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.
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.
I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.
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.
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.
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.