Parenting Quote by Joshilyn Jackson

“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

“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

“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

“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“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

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“I wanted to show up. I wanted you to know, I will show up.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“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

“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

“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

“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