Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelsonis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 June 1965
CountryUnited States of America
thinking sometimes realizing
Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.
saws splits want
In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
sun hell decency
At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.
luck ifs knows
If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.
simple people sound
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
people stories meant-to-be
Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.
wall book dark
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.
horizon way ifs
It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.
talking paper mouths
I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.
night break globes
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.
eye sky white
The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky...
heart knows know-how
I don't know how the heart withstands it.
giving maps firsts
For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
flower grandmother thinking
My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe