Quotes from Joshilyn Jackson

she hadn't known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges.

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.

Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!

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

No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it. Our hurts are heavy, and we let them sink. Every day they drift lower, settling in murky places where the light can't reach.

All of us, every innocent babe born on this planet, gets broken eventually.

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 along to fill the space.' As she spoke, her tone shifted. She wasn't talking about me anymore. 'You can't go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car.

I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but it was lovely, too. Her history was written in it, in the stretch marks left by my father, in the surgery scar on her abdomen and the puckered burn scar on the inside of her left arm, in the simple toll of ninety years of fighting gravity.

You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.

When things went to shit, girls called their mothers

She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.

Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.