“I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a seeping wound… — 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… — Joshilyn Jackson Love 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
“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 Parenting 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… — Joshilyn Jackson Worst thing 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 Science 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… — Joshilyn Jackson Love 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 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
“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
“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 Young men 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 Teen-girl 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 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 Loyalty 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
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them. — Joshilyn Jackson Mean 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 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
“You don’t see it, but next happens anyway and always. With or without you.” “No,” — Joshilyn Jackson 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
