I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.” “So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.” He still won’t meet my eyes.”

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”

“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

“Quick, make a wish. Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.”

“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”

“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”

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