“I wanted to fall in love, marry a dork like me, make more dorks.” — Joshilyn Jackson Dork Copy Share Image
“You don’t see it, but next happens anyway and always. With or without you.” “No,” — Joshilyn Jackson Happens Copy Share Image
God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us. — Joshilyn Jackson Cry Copy Share Image
“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.” — Joshilyn Jackson Loud Copy Share Image
“It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.” — Joshilyn Jackson Stop Copy Share Image
“The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and… — Joshilyn Jackson Allegiance Copy Share Image
“sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her.” — Joshilyn Jackson Laurel Copy Share Image
“I hoped she wouldn’t realize how spectacular she was until she was twenty-five and safely past letting it ruin her.” — Joshilyn Jackson Hoped Copy Share Image
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. — Joshilyn Jackson Alabama Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to decide what you want. It’s quite another to know how to get it. William doesn’t know how, but… — Joshilyn Jackson Decide Copy Share Image
“Lavender and I have been living in a house of cards, while Smiley Daddy took us to Greece. He” — Joshilyn Jackson House of cards Copy Share Image
I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came. — Joshilyn Jackson Hands Copy Share Image
“Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...” — Joshilyn Jackson Karma Copy Share Image
“I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but… — Joshilyn Jackson Stretch marks Copy Share Image
“This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The… — Joshilyn Jackson Marriage Copy Share Image
“He knows me so well. I don’t have to say it. Not any of it. Not yet. There will be time for… — Joshilyn Jackson Gaze Copy Share Image
“He was so beautiful. He wasn’t mine. I should run to the mountains now, and hide. I should run right into his… — Joshilyn Jackson Mother Copy Share Image
“The playground song in my head went, First comes love, then comes hideous betrayal, then comes endless regret requiring expensive therapy. It… — Joshilyn Jackson Love Copy Share Image
“The movement was in me, but it wasn’t me. It was another little something, a someone, willfully choosing to flex his flippery… — Joshilyn Jackson Movement Copy Share Image
“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to… — Joshilyn Jackson Front door Copy Share Image
“Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty,… — Joshilyn Jackson First sight Copy Share Image
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches… — Joshilyn Jackson Airports Copy Share Image
“You go to bed, too, and don’t fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something… — Joshilyn Jackson Shifted Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Belief Copy Share Image
“This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes, nothing… — Joshilyn Jackson Drown Copy Share Image
“The South was like that optical-illusion drawing of the duck that is at the same time a rabbit. I’d always see the… — Joshilyn Jackson Time Copy Share Image
“How stupid. My mom and dad had lost each other, and for what? So they could fit better at their parents’ tables… — Joshilyn Jackson Aunts Copy Share Image
“I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.” — Joshilyn Jackson Commandment Copy Share Image
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them. — Joshilyn Jackson Mean Copy Share Image
“I wanted to show up. I wanted you to know, I will show up.” — Joshilyn Jackson Know Copy Share Image
“...blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.” — Joshilyn Jackson Blind Copy Share Image
“Oh, honey,” she said, her tone echoing Wattie’s. “I’m not sick. I’m only dying.” — Joshilyn Jackson Dying Copy Share Image
“It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.” — Joshilyn Jackson Fast Copy Share Image
“I'd thought Clarice's smile was both too dim and friendly and too wide and white, so that she looked to me like… — Joshilyn Jackson Cannibal Copy Share Image
“You go to bed, too, and don’t fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something… — Joshilyn Jackson Feel Copy Share Image
“I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a seeping wound… — Joshilyn Jackson Wound Copy Share Image
