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21 " Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return... "
― Joshilyn Jackson , Someone Else's Love Story
22 " Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
23 " He knows me so well. I don’t have to say it. Not any of it. Not yet. There will be time for it later. For now, it is enough. It is enough and it is easy. Easy to walk the last few steps between us. Easy and so beautiful to step into his arms.He kisses me. He kisses me.I kiss him back. "
24 " I had spent my whole life hungry for forgiveness. It had not come, so I didn’t know firsthand what he was feeling. But I had imagined it, over and over. I’d wanted it so bad. I’d wanted Kai—or anyone, anyone who knew the worst in me—to say that I was still dear, and good, and worthy. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , The Opposite of Everyone
25 " she hadn’t known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , The Almost Sisters
26 " I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
27 " I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , Backseat Saints
28 " Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop! "
― Joshilyn Jackson , Gods in Alabama
29 " I want to thank you, first, Person Who Bought This Book. Because of you, I have a job I love. Because of you, the people in my head get to live outside of it. When I meet you, you talk about my characters as if they are old friends (or enemies) we have in common; I cannot explain how miraculous this feels. If you are one of those people who have put my books into the hands of other readers—either professionally as a god-called lunatic who loves books so much you hand-sell them or as a reader who picked one for book club or gave it to your best friend for a birthday—well. This book exists because of you. I hope you are happy about this. I am—happy and grateful and a little bit in love with you. "
30 " He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken. "
31 " All of us, every innocent babe born on this planet, gets broken eventually. "
32 " 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. "
33 " 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. "
34 " You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them. "
35 " When things went to shit, girls called their mothers "
36 " I wanted to fall in love, marry a dork like me, make more dorks. "
37 " 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. "
― Joshilyn Jackson , Never Have I Ever
38 " Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space. "
39 " 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. "
40 " Parenthood shouldn’t work this way. Fathers shouldn’t get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren’t dead should do their damn job. "