Hyacinth Schein > Hyacinth's Quotes

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The wonderful thing about reality is that it is highly flexible. One minute, all is doom; the next, everything is abloom with possibility.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“So Plato talked about these beings that used to exist that had four legs and four arms and two heads. They were totally self-contained and ecstatic and powerful. Too powerful, so Zeus cut them all in half and scattered all the halves around the world so that humans were doomed to forever look for their other half, the one who shared their very soul. Only the luckiest humans find their split-apart, you see.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I cannot tell you how you will survive without me. I cannot tell you how to mourn me.  I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. I just want you to live.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“His soul might be a sun. I've never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It seems to me that childhood ends and adult life begins the moment you stop believing your parents can rescue you.”
― Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

“It's incredible to me to think that all these objects can hold so much meaning, but at the end of the day they're objects and only we can give them meaning.”
― Julie Murphy

“I wonder if God runs some kind of lottery up in heaven and that's how he decides who's going where and with whom.”
― Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“He was the kind of man who walks into a room and all the walls fall down.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“No one tells you how gone gone really is, or how long it lasts.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“And you used to make art and like boys and talk to horses and pull the moon through the window for my birthday present.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“No woman can resist a man who has tidal waves and earthquakes beneath the skin.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“People think people are in charge, but they're wrong; it's the trees.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Yes, so if God can have two tries, why not us? Or three or three hundred tries.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I watch him throw his head back in supreme happiness, like he's hearing that he gets to choose the colors for all the sunsets from now on.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. Perhaps it’s the same with people and their cracks and breaks.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I'm filled with something I can only describe as recognition. Not because he looks familiar on the outside this time, but because he feels familiar on the inside.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren’t team players.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“It kicks the breath out of me, kicks bright light into me.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"

"So damn much," he says back, it only comes out, "Dude”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Revolutionaries aren't team players.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“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. He grins. “Each new self standing on the last one’s shoulders until we’re these wobbly people poles?” I die of delight. “Yes, exactly! We’re all just wobbly people poles!”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Then I enter the crawlspace deep inside me and shut the hatch. Because I’m not coming back out. Ever.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun