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.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Jandy Nelson Life Storytelling

Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.I have grey eyes to her green,an oval face to her heart-shaped one,I'm shorter, scrawnier, paler, flatter, plainer, tamer.All we shared is a madhouse of curlsthat I imprison in a ponytailwhile she let hers ravelike madnessaround her head.I don't sing in my sleepor eat the petals off flowersor run into the rain instead of out of it.I'm the unplugged-in one,the side-kick sister,tucked into a corner of her shadow.Boys followed her everywhere;they filled the booths at the restaurant where she waitressed,herded around her at the river.One day, I saw a boy come up behind herand pull a strand of her long hairI understood this-I felt the same way.In photographs of us together,she is always looking at the camera,and I am always looking at her.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Death Family Grief Jandy Nelson Sister The Sky Is Everywhere

The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. Awesome. Doomsday's most definitely been cancelled. Landscape: When God Paints Outside The Lines

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Beautiful Humour Jandy Nelson

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

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Ill Give You The Sun Jandy Nelson Normal Soul Weird Weirdness

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Family Jandy Nelson Mother Pasta The Sky Is Everywhere

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Grief Jandy Nelson Sky The Sky Is Everywhere

There's nothing giggly about Heather usually. She's the opposite, hanging out with her is like sitting in an empty church. That's why I like her. She's quiet and serious and a thousand years old and seems like she can talk to the wind.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Beautiful Ill Give You The Sun Jandy Nelson

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Ending Jandy Nelson The Sky Is Everywhere Write

The feet of ghosts never touch the ground.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Ghosts I Ll Give You The Sun Jandy Nelson

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

~ Jandy Nelson

Jandy Nelson Girl Jandy Nelson Stereotype The Sky Is Everywhere