"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?"

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Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

Jandy Nelson

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“For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.”
“My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.”

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“The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.”
“I think Ian likes you too much”
“There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.”
“That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. â€¦ If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemyâ€™s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.”

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