Top 46 Joshilyn Jackson Quotes
#2. 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.
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#3. It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.
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#4. It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.
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#6. I'd thought Clarice's smile was both too dim and friendly and too wide and white, so that she looked to me like the love child of a cannibal and a Labrador retriever.
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#7. I could break things in a thousand ways
anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.
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#8. Oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it
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#9. He was so beautiful. He wasn't mine. I should run to the mountains now, and hide. I should run right into his arms and demand that he close them around me. I should run home to my mother and cry into her lap.
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#10. The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and the loser in their war.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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 healed a lick in the twenty-odd years since she had left me.
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#13. You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl.
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#15. The way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.
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#16. It's one thing to decide what you want. It's quite another to know how to get it. William doesn't know how, but he is trying.
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#17. Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.
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#18. I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.
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#19. The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.
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#20. I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.
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#21. There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
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#22. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.
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#23. This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of Mimmy and my dad was not for me. It was for her. It was for them. I was so sick with understanding that I was practically yelling at her.
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#24. It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.
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#25. She was exactly like her house, expensive and elegant, but not at all comfortable.
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#26. Miracle is another word for magic, and magic is only science, unexplained.
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#28. Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.
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#29. You have a person around for years, maybe you get fond of them even if they aren't really anything to you, and that struck me as huge and important in some way I couldn't get a good hold on.
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#30. My plan was to go on my run, grab Ms. Fancy, drive like a cocaine-attled hell bat to the airport and hurl her and her bags out as I slowed down in the drop off lane.
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#31. I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.
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#32. You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.
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#33. I'd have to run away to New York and be a hooker and eat a pound of heroin and die.
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#34. Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return ...
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#35. He had lost his child; he knew how fast things could spin out of control. He knew a person could lose anything in half a heartbeat.
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#36. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
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#37. He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.
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#38. Sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her.
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#39. I'd only wanted, desperately, for him to be a thing that I could have.
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#40. God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.
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#41. What had he been Thinking? If a fella was looking for love, I was the wrong road to go down. I was the road, in fact, that was crawling with barbed wire and bears and dynamite, marked with huge signs that said THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE.
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#42. I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.
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#43. 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 super exciting, not really because it felt that great to have my booby treated like a yeast roll, but because we had both been so thrilled that I had let him touch it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works
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