Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere Quotes
She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
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.
Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.
I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
As I walk through the redwood trees, my sneakers sopping up days of rain, I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes, when grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.
There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.
Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.
In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.
You can tell your story any way you damn well please.Its your solo.
And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.
Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.
That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
