“This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes, nothing saves you…Liza knows how black the world is, how fast it spins, and how you have to take… — 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
“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.” — 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
“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
“This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“Lavender and I have been living in a house of cards, while Smiley Daddy took us to Greece. He” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came. — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
