I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.
Jandy NelsonYears ago, I was crashed in gramโs garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, โThatโs a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
Jandy NelsonFor the first time in our lives, Iโm somewhere she canโt find, and I donโt have the map to give her that leads to me.
Jandy NelsonThe guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
Jandy NelsonHe smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then removes it, and heads back into the living room. Whoa - well, that was either the dorkiest or sexiest moment of my life, and I'm voting for sexy on account of my standing here dumbstruck and giddy, wondering if he did kiss me after all.
Jandy Nelson