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
crazy thinking play
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.
girl mother two
How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?
brightness knows felt
I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.
sports leather-jackets guy
No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.
world chance remakes
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world,
stars shining stills
It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.
artist hands wish
We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.
crush reality shoes
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
grief sleep blow
grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
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?