Authors — Quotes

Jandy Nelson Quotes: 7

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
I'll Give You the Sun
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?
The Sky Is Everywhere
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
I'll Give You the Sun
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
The Sky Is Everywhere
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.
The Sky Is Everywhere