“ 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 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
“ 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
“ English people are so not asshats! I’m going to move there. William Blake was English. 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… 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… 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. Jandy Nelson
“ Being with boys is more dangerous for me than killing a cricket or having a bird fly into the house. 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. 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. 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… 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… Jandy Nelson
“ I run my hands through his hair, finally, finally, finally, then bring his head to mine and kiss him so hard our teeth collide, planets collide, kissing him now for each and every time we didn't all s… Jandy Nelson
“ And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough. Jandy Nelson
“ She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps. Jandy Nelson
