“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.” — Joshilyn Jackson 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 at Christmas and Passover? So their brothers and sisters could be comfortable? The families who had worked so… — Joshilyn Jackson 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 that hadn’t… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“A whole and grown-up person would go and simply tell him. I’m in love with you. A whole and grown-up person would ask him.… — Joshilyn Jackson 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, and they… — Joshilyn Jackson 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 arms and… — Joshilyn Jackson 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 new comes along to fill the space.' As she spoke, her tone shifted. She wasn’t talking about me anymore. 'You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share
“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.” — Joshilyn Jackson 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 was a… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“I'd let him put his hand under my shirt, over the bra, where he kneaded with delighted disbelief at my booby. It had been… — Joshilyn Jackson 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 new comes… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
