“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
―
Jandy Nelson,
I'll Give You the Sun
“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.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“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 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.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”He still won’t meet my eyes.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the bella house that blows into the airat the slightest gustthat buries itself deep in the groundwhile everyone is sleepinggrief is a house where no one can protect youwhere the younger sisterwill grow older than the older onewhere the doorsno longer let you inor out” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“Quick, make a wish.Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.Remake the world.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“Each time someone dies, a library burns.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“There once was a girl who found herself dead.She peered over the ledge of heavenand saw that back on earthher sister missed her too much,was way too sad,so she crossed some pathsthat would not have crossed,took some moments in her handshook them upand spilled them like diceover the living world.It worked.The boy with the guitar collidedwith her sister."There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“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.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“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 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.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”He still won’t meet my eyes.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“grief is a housewhere the chairshave forgotten how to hold usthe mirrors how to reflect usthe walls how to contain usgrief is a house that disappearseach time someone knocks at the dooror rings the bella house that blows into the airat the slightest gustthat buries itself deep in the groundwhile everyone is sleepinggrief is a house where no one can protect youwhere the younger sisterwill grow older than the older onewhere the doorsno longer let you inor out” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“Quick, make a wish.Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.Remake the world.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“Each time someone dies, a library burns.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“There once was a girl who found herself dead.She peered over the ledge of heavenand saw that back on earthher sister missed her too much,was way too sad,so she crossed some pathsthat would not have crossed,took some moments in her handshook them upand spilled them like diceover the living world.It worked.The boy with the guitar collidedwith her sister."There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
“I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
