R.A. Nelson Quotes & Sayings

To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water. — R.A. Nelson

Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing? — R.A. Nelson

His voice is a chain pulling me back to Earth. — R.A. Nelson

I'd make oatmeal cookies."
"Cookies?"
"I would. That's just what I would do."
"Why?"
He lifts one hand from the steering wheel and pinches his chin. "Because the world is changing so fast all the time. There's nothing you can do but just say, 'cool,' and roll with it. But some things can stay the same. Flour is still flour. Vanilla still smells like vanilla. Say a giant fireball is motoring toward us right now from Alha Centauri. Okay, universe. You expect us to run and scream and kill one another? Sorry, we're making oatmeal freaking cookies. — R.A. Nelson

There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending. — R.A. Nelson

Something inside my chest breaks loose and falls. It never stops falling. — R.A. Nelson

He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm.
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it. — R.A. Nelson

Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together? — R.A. Nelson

This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go. — R.A. Nelson

Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down. — R.A. Nelson

He's kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched — R.A. Nelson

My head is totally gone; there is nothing left but my heart. — R.A. Nelson

Is this what we have to look forward to? The world of adults feels like a universe that has reached the end of its expansion and is inexorably collapsing back in on itself. — R.A. Nelson

You have to believe in God to believe in trees. — R.A. Nelson

There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real. — R.A. Nelson

A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read. — R.A. Nelson

Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag. — R.A. Nelson