Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun

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About Jandy Nelson

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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....

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Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

—Jandy Nelson in The Sky Is Everywhere

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How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. 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?

—Jandy Nelson in The Sky Is Everywhere

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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

—John Stuart Mill

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

—Francis Bacon

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