Jessie Newton > Quotes

“You’re not having sex with her, are you?” “Mom,”
― Jessie Newton, The Lighthouse

“As soon as she saw Kristen, she wouldn’t be able to hold back the tide. But she still had a fifteen-minute drive and a five-minute hike before she could release the emotions. “Ready,” she said to herself, looking around the office where she ran events. The house sat empty during weekdays, with Duke off on his fishing boat until at least one or two in the afternoon. During peak fishing season, he didn’t come home until the fish dried up, sometimes for days at a time. He’d been gone for a few”
― Jessie Newton, The Lighthouse

“Her footprints would be washed away by the time the man got to the spot where she’d stood, and she wondered if the footprint her life had left on the world would be erased as easily.”
― Jessie Newton, The Lighthouse

“showstopper”
― Jessie Newton, The Cottage on Nantucket

“She wanted to believe Riggs hadn’t been the one to hurt his younger sister all those years ago. She found it very hard to believe that he could come back to the Point only a couple of years later”
― Jessie Newton, The Lighthouse Inn

“Now she just had to figure out how to find the good in life again. How to laugh at herself again. How to find humor and happiness in a difficult situation or a difficult time.”
― Jessie Newton, The Summer Sand Pact

“grief”
― Jessie Newton, The Cottage on Nantucket

“No one’s life was completely perfect, and the human mind had a way of whispering damaging things to a person that were entirely unfair.”
― Jessie Newton, The Seafaring Girls

“She absolutely did belong here, just as every songbird finds its tune, so too had she found her harmony among this diverse, beautiful medley of women.”
― Jessie Newton, The Glass Dolphin