“...blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.” — Joshilyn Jackson Blind Copy Share Image
“Oh, honey,” she said, her tone echoing Wattie’s. “I’m not sick. I’m only dying.” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.” — Joshilyn Jackson Commandment Copy Share Image
You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them. — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“she hadn’t known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges.” — Joshilyn Jackson Heart 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to… — 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes, nothing… — 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 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
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches… — 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… — Joshilyn Jackson Aunts Copy Share Image
“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.” — 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 wanted to fall in love, marry a dork like me, make more dorks.” — Joshilyn Jackson Dork 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
“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
“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
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