“I wanted to show up. I wanted you to know, I will show up.” — Joshilyn Jackson Know Copy Share Image
“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.” — Joshilyn Jackson Magic Copy Share Image
“That was normal. That was regular and real.. It didn't look like a place [she] could get to from here.” — Joshilyn Jackson Normal Copy Share Image
“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.” — Joshilyn Jackson Loud 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 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
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
“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.” — Joshilyn Jackson Breakable 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 whole and grown-up person would go and simply tell him. I’m in love with you. A whole and grown-up person would… — Joshilyn Jackson Love 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
“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
“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 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
“I'd let him put his hand under my shirt, over the bra, where he kneaded with delighted disbelief at my booby. It… — Joshilyn Jackson Humore 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 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
“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
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them. — Joshilyn Jackson Mean 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
“she hadn’t known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges.” — Joshilyn Jackson 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
“I’ve never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across… — Joshilyn Jackson Angel Copy Share Image
“Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you’ll be onto you till you’re so weighed down… — Joshilyn Jackson Hanging Copy Share Image
William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has… — Joshilyn Jackson Chemistry Copy Share Image
“She had shown Laura that David was less hers than she had ever thought and the pieces of him she did own… — Joshilyn Jackson David Copy Share Image
“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or… — Joshilyn Jackson Children 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 Love Copy Share Image
“She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.” — Joshilyn Jackson Comedy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“It was love, though. Love, or some other, nameless feeling that was sister to it. I was racked with it. It thundered… — Joshilyn Jackson Love 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
“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 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
“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
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
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