Jandy Nelson quote: "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."

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
JANDY NELSON

Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.
JANDY NELSON

The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place.
JANDY NELSON

There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON

There were once two sisters
who were not afriad of the dark
because the dark was full of t...
JANDY NELSON

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exis...
JANDY NELSON

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
JANDY NELSON

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how sibl...
JANDY NELSON

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
JANDY NELSON

grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to re...
JANDY NELSON

She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting
JANDY NELSON

Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.
I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabrainge...
JANDY NELSON

what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.
JANDY NELSON

Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.
JANDY NELSON

I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.
JANDY NELSON

I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, on...
JANDY NELSON

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
JANDY NELSON

Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the f...
JANDY NELSON

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
JANDY NELSON

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
JANDY NELSON

His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.
JANDY NELSON

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away...
JANDY NELSON

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like...
JANDY NELSON

I'm thinking the reason I've been so quiet all those years is only because Brian wasn't around yet f...
JANDY NELSON

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping...
JANDY NELSON

There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him....
JANDY NELSON

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
JANDY NELSON

It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.
JANDY NELSON

We are all broken. I mean, aren't we now? I am. The whole wide world is.
JANDY NELSON

I turn around, remembering again that we got made together, cell for cell. We were keeping wach othe...
JANDY NELSON

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.
JANDY NELSON

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I&...
JANDY NELSON

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b...
JANDY NELSON

I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I a...
JANDY NELSON

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and lov...
JANDY NELSON

Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.
JANDY NELSON

He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive any...
JANDY NELSON

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is w...
JANDY NELSON

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.
JANDY NELSON

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever
JANDY NELSON

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical moveme...
JANDY NELSON

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
JANDY NELSON

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
JANDY NELSON

I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one bad...
JANDY NELSON

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
JANDY NELSON

The Color Of Extraordinary.
JANDY NELSON

Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s le...
JANDY NELSON

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
JANDY NELSON

How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour...
JANDY NELSON

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of ...
JANDY NELSON

When he plays
all the flowers swap colors
and years and decades and centuries
of rain...
JANDY NELSON

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who ...
JANDY NELSON

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
JANDY NELSON

In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil.
JANDY NELSON

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
JANDY NELSON

Its like I have a window in my chest where sunlight is pouring in.
JANDY NELSON

He carries pieces of the galaxy around in a bag
JANDY NELSON

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of bo...
JANDY NELSON

What's your major, Lennie? Oh yeah: Dorkology.
JANDY NELSON

I can't shove the dark out of my way.
JANDY NELSON

It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they ...
JANDY NELSON

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational fa...
JANDY NELSON

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.
JANDY NELSON

There were once two sisters who shared the same room,
the same clothes,
the same thoughts...
JANDY NELSON

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I’m not.
JANDY NELSON

Our eyes meet and hold, and the world starts to fall away, time does, years rolling up like rugs, un...
JANDY NELSON

Because who knows? Who knows anything? Who knows who's pulling the strings? Or what is? Or how? Who ...
JANDY NELSON

In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.
JANDY NELSON

I'd been making desicions for days.
I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever-
a bl...
JANDY NELSON

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel P...
JANDY NELSON

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.
JANDY NELSON

He floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his ...
JANDY NELSON

What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
JANDY NELSON

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selve...
JANDY NELSON

No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention w...
JANDY NELSON

And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more...
JANDY NELSON

A broken heart is an open heart.
JANDY NELSON

He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.
JANDY NELSON

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just...
JANDY NELSON

It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can'...
JANDY NELSON

If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.
JANDY NELSON

We wish with our hands, that’s what we do as artists.
JANDY NELSON

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a dam...
JANDY NELSON

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these ...
JANDY NELSON

I can't seem to keep you out like I can everyone else. That I think you could devastate me.
JANDY NELSON

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
JANDY NELSON

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on t...
JANDY NELSON

I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

"So damn much," he says back, it ...
JANDY NELSON

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
NELSON DEMILLE

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
WILLIE NELSON

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON

England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...
TED NELSON

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe...
TED NELSON

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -...
TED NELSON

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
TED NELSON

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i...
TED NELSON

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th...
TED NELSON

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide...
TED NELSON

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
TED NELSON

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru...
TED NELSON

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
TED NELSON

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...
NELSON MANDELA

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati...
NELSON MANDELA

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
NELSON MANDELA

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will...
NELSON MANDELA

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un...
NELSON MANDELA

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...
NELSON MANDELA

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...
NELSON MANDELA

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a ...
NELSON MANDELA

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
NELSON MANDELA

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
NELSON MANDELA

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
NELSON MANDELA

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k...
NELSON MANDELA

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of cou...
NELSON MANDELA

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who...
NELSON MANDELA

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitte...
NELSON MANDELA

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi...
NELSON MANDELA

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of ...
NELSON MANDELA

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happi...
NELSON MANDELA

We can't afford to be killing one another.
NELSON MANDELA

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we...
NELSON MANDELA

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the ta...
NELSON MANDELA

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ...
NELSON MANDELA

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...
NELSON MANDELA

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so ...
NELSON MANDELA

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer...
NELSON MANDELA

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example...
NELSON MANDELA

You know, you can only lead them from behind.
NELSON MANDELA

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re...
NELSON MANDELA

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the...
NELSON MANDELA

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
NELSON MANDELA

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the mom...
NELSON MANDELA

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan...
NELSON MANDELA

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
NELSON MANDELA

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
NELSON MANDELA

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ...
NELSON MANDELA

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
NELSON MANDELA

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
NELSON MANDELA

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
NELSON MANDELA

There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen...
NELSON MANDELA

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
NELSON MANDELA

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
NELSON MANDELA

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's ve...
NELSON MANDELA

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United State...
NELSON MANDELA

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident...
NELSON MANDELA

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
NELSON MANDELA

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
NELSON ALGREN

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. Bu...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs ...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benef...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced t...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

They just wrestled up to their potential.
AL NELSON

It's the best thing we ever did. We are really proud of what we do. We feel we are part of a team wi...
AL NELSON

It's as important to know what not to say to them.
AL NELSON

It meant a lot to us to have friends with us at a time like that.
AL NELSON

It could be an hour or it could be seven hours. Every situation is different.
AL NELSON

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
BYRON NELSON

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON

It's pretty much the same as spray paint. I think a lot of the student groups think it's the same as...
ALAN NELSON

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelm...
ALAN NELSON

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON

It is a neat deal so people don't drive their car. We will have three drivers on New Year's Eve, and...
ALAN NELSON

I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.
ALAN NELSON

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.

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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.

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