Sweetwine Quotes

#1. What business does memory have with time?

Jess Walter

#2. Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

Stevie Nicks

#3. Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Richard Rohr

#4. The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.
- Jude Sweetwine to Oscar Ralph

Jandy Nelson

#5. There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Camilo Jose Cela

#6. What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

Jandy Nelson

#7. In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world. This is something I would very much like to do, though no clue how carving a rock will achieve it.
- Jude Sweetwine

Jandy Nelson

#9. Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.

Fausto Cercignani

#10. It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.

Jenny Han

#11. I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. It was quite impossible to describe.
Here is what it looked like.
It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

Terry Pratchett

#13. He's the one. And some thoughts once thought are very hard to unthink.

Jandy Nelson

#14. My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it.

Jandy Nelson

#15. Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

Jandy Nelson

#16. That's when Poppy kissed me. I didn't have time to get ready. She just kissed me there and then, right on the lips. It felt lovely. I wasn't even scared this time. It was warm and not too wet. I didn't get any tongue. Her breath smelled like Orange Tic Tacs.

Stephen Kelman

#17. You're going to obliterate me, you know.
- Oscar Ralph to Jude Sweetwine

Jandy Nelson