Joshilyn Jackson Quotes

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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

This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes, nothing saves you ... Liza knows how black the world is, how fast it spins, and how you have to take the taste of apples and the smell of your little girl's orange zest shampoo where you find them. You have to hold these things and strive, always, for one more word and one more step. You push forward and you fight, for as long as ever you can, until the black world spins and the moon pulls the tide and the water rises up and takes you. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

When things went to shit, girls called their mothers ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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

I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man's heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he's busy picking them up, they're squirming in through a back window. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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 STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry - lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness - plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ 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 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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

A whole slew of them lived outside Immita on a big piece of trailer-dotted land everyone called Ducktown, and they were all cousins and brothers and aunts with one another so many times over that it was hard to tell who was exactly related and how. Growing up, I'd had six or so in school right around my grade, but I was a sophomore now, and only one was left. Either the rest had failed so many times I'd left them behind by middle school or they had plain dropped out. OMG ~ 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 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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

I'd have to run away to New York and be a hooker and eat a pound of heroin and die. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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

He threw up his hands and said, "And you know I fucking love you. So?"
I looked into his right eye, then his left, back and forth.
"Why do you love me?"
I knew what I wanted, but on his side, I didn't want it to be because I could be so bad for him. I didn't want to be a pretty fist that he could bang himself into. I leaned against the wall, my head right by the keypad. "If we're going to take a run at this, it has to be more than good sex and your masochism."
I wasn't sure he was going to answer. I wasn't sure he had a reason, and he could be so hard to read. But then he smiled.
"Because everyone on this shithole planet says a lot of pretty words to make themselves look good while they do awful things", he said. "You're the opposite."
It was a good answer. A good thing to say. I peered from one eye to the other, back and forth, harder than I had looked into Clark's eyes or the gun's. Birdwine's left one was rimmed in black and violet, still swollen. I watched his pupils expand as I leaned up. There was a fair amount of crazy present, sure, but in the darkness of his eyes I saw myself reflected clearly. I was real to him. He saw me all the way down to the bottom and knew every awful thing I'd done. More - he knew all that I was capable of doing, and yet, he looked at me like I was something worthy and good.
"Come upstairs," I said. There was a promise in the words that spoke to more than sex. I thought it was implicit. But he only waited, si ~ Joshilyn Jackson

Miracle is another word for magic, and magic is only science, unexplained. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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

Sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

She had shown Laura that David was less hers than she had ever thought and the pieces of him she did own were being taken. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

In fight or flight Kai has always chose for us, and my mother is made out of wings. I don't think I am like her, not in this way. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

The things that happen to me just make me more me. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

Oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it ~ Joshilyn Jackson

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. ~ 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 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. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil. ~ Greg Jackson

When the side effects knock you down, find the strength to get up, because you are a soldier. You've paid your dues, and nobody can hurt you because your foundation is solid.
You are not broken down anymore. The Grim Reaper cannot steal your joy. You are no longer its victim. You are victorious, feeling good and living free! The 'treatment' gave you a turbocharge to find a cure. The cure is to love yourself more and to put yourself first. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

½ Tablespoon Honey (Local is recommended) ½ Tablespoon Coconut Oil ¼ Teaspoon Chili Powder ½ Cup Coconut Milk ¼ Cup Frozen Blueberries ½ Cup Medium Avocado (Chilled) 5-8 Ice Cubes 1 Tablespoon Spinach ~ Jackson Nash

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back. ~ Holbrook Jackson

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. ~ Mahalia Jackson

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. ~ Robert H. Jackson

She had white cat hair on her dark suit, she was a dedicated cat hugger. ~ Lilian Jackson Braun

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. ~ Andrew Jackson

In due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love! ~ Brenda Jackson

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man. ~ Curtis Jackson

Success is my drug of choice. ~ Curtis Jackson

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles. ~ Marlon Wayans

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. ~ LaToya Jackson

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting. ~ Jonathan Jackson

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. ~ Shirley Jackson

A 6-inch cannon. I've only ever seen those on a Saypuri dreadnought ... And it looks like they have, or expect to have, 36 of the damn things."
"And they plan to do what with them? Bombard the hills? Fight a war with the squirrels? ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The ripple effect is change. Eventually, the rings of the ripples change; they either become smaller or wider in length. No matter the size, sooner or later, the ripple will vanish, but the question is - did it leave an effect or was it pointless?
What impact does the ripple effect have on you? Will you reach for great heights, or will you let the ripple effect's "purpose" pass you by? ~ Charlena E. Jackson

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society. ~ Tim Jackson

I write books, bitch! ~ Junnita Jackson

I am tired of faking and acting like everything is okay. I am so tired of saying I am fine. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

husband, Alan, has encouraged me from the start and early on saw what needed to be elaborated upon, refined and honed. Without his guidance and encouragement, the project would have been a much lesser thing. Isabel ~ Isabel Jackson

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. ~ Jesse Jackson

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me. ~ Jackson Browne

I'll be back with the sandwiches," she said. "But I had some leftover seven-layer dip."
"Yum." Percy dug in with a tortilla chip. "She's kinda famous for this, guys."
Sally ruffled his hair. "There's guacamole, sour cream, refried beans, salsa - "
"Seven layers?" I looked up in wonder. "You knew seven is my sacred number? You invented this for me?"
Sally wiped her hands on her apron. "Well, actually, I can't take credit - "
"You are too modest!" I tried some of the dip. It tasted almost as good as ambrosia nachos. "You will have immortal fame for this, Sally Jackson! ~ Rick Riordan

Love is filled with a lot of sacrifices and resentment and is underestimated in so many ways. It is something of a Catch-22 and an overwhelming source of empowerment. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like ... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword. ~ Rick Riordan

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours. ~ Michael Jackson

There's a communist living in the White House! ~ Victoria Jackson

I'm . . . concerned. You appear to be upset. What's wrong?" His voice gentled and his eyes searched mine. "What's happened? And what can I do to help?"

I crossed my arms because my stupid heart was fluttering again. He caught me off guard. I was not at all prepared for Cletus Winston's concern.

"Nothing. Nothing is wrong. I just wanted to bring y'all muffins. Can't I bring y'all muffins?"

He was scrutinizing me again. "No. Something's off. Is it Jackson James? Do I need to maim him? Because I will. I could give him leprosy, you know. Armadillos are carriers."

My mouth fell open and a bubble of laughter emerged unchecked. "Cletus Winston, you will do no such thing."

"Sheriff's deputy or not. Just say the word. It might improve him, actually."

"You are terrible." I laughed, even though he was terrible, and I felt terrible laughing at such a terrible joke.

At least, I hope it's a joke ~ Penny Reid

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you. ~ Michael Jackson

I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened. ~ Glenda Jackson

When shall we live if not now? ~ Shirley Jackson

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh. ~ Randy Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ~ Andrew Jackson

The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can. ~ Bo Jackson

Each sacrifice was a process of change. Your tears changed your perception and they cleansed your soul. Those were survival tears. As you were changing, slowly but surely you were forming a connection as you began to think and analyze - this isn't your life. This isn't you. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Ageless Wisdom is etched in the belly of the Earth, and you are one with Its Soul. ~ Quandi Jackson

Michael Jackson is what happens when you keep fixin' it until it's broke! ~ Richard Jeni

Which reminded me ... I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. ~ Rick Riordan

Remember, we all have to start from somewhere. You made another step today. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again - not after they'd been apart for so many months. ~ Rick Riordan

My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country
Doctor, that is a different case. ~ Andrew Jackson

I don't paint nature. I am nature. ~ Jackson Pollock

Sometimes things are most beautiful when they're coming to an end. ~ Kyra Jackson

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart. ~ Mahalia Jackson

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. ~ Alphonso Jackson

Players grunt, coaches yell, and pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early-onset dementia. ~ Nate Jackson

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation. ~ Marc Evan Jackson

You can't hurt me, I found peace within myself. ~ Michael Jackson