“Parenthood shouldn’t work this way. Fathers shouldn’t get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who… — Joshilyn Jackson Fathers 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
“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
“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded.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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
