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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 law...

Jandy Nelson

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 law...

Tags: family, language, sibling

Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.

Jandy Nelson

Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house.

About Author
Jandy Nelson (born November 25, 1965) is an American author. Prior to her career as an author, Nelson worked for 13 years as a literary agent at Manus & Associates Literary Agency. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University as well as several Master of Fine Arts degrees. She later attended Vermont College of Fine Arts.

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon]I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh...

Jandy Nelson

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon]I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh...

Tags: humour

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 de...

Jandy Nelson

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 de...

Tags: beautiful, humour, jandy nelson

I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth

Jandy Nelson

I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth

Tags: longing, loss, love

If she were drowning, I'd hold her head under

Jandy Nelson

If she were drowning, I'd hold her head under

Tags: anger, drown, hatred, i ll give you the sun

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

Jandy Nelson

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

Tags: happiness, heartbreak, love

English people are so not asshats! I’m going to move there. William Blake was English.

Jandy Nelson

English people are so not asshats! I’m going to move there. William Blake was English.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —E.E. CUMMINGS

Jandy Nelson

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —E.E. CUMMINGS

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

Jandy Nelson

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

Tags: contemporary, love, young adult

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is li...

Jandy Nelson

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is li...

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 o...

Jandy Nelson

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 o...

So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in...

Jandy Nelson

So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,’ Oscar says to me, still balancing on the back legs of his chair. William Blake.

Jandy Nelson

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,’ Oscar says to me, still balancing on the back legs of his chair. William Blake.

You duck! You flying yellow duck! And you took this long to tell me?! When Sarah gets excited, random animals pop into her speech like she has an Old MacDonald Had a Farm kind of Tourette syndrome.

Jandy Nelson

You duck! You flying yellow duck! And you took this long to tell me?! When Sarah gets excited, random animals pop into her speech like she has an Old MacDonald Had a Farm kind of Tourette syndrome.