June Gervais > Quotes

“But I keep thinking, I’m about to be twenty-one. In five minutes I’ll be forty. How you spend your days is how you spend your years is how you’ve spent your life.”
― June Gervais, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair: A Novel

“Corazón, you could make a lot of women feel whole again.”
― June Gervais, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair

“And this was really generous of him.” Anna gestured up at the room. “And for a while it was fine.” Her voice did not at all sound like it was fine. She took a long drink. “But I keep thinking, I’m about to be twenty-one. In five minutes I’ll be forty. How you spend your days is how you spend your years is how you’ve spent your life.” -Jobs for girls with Artistic Flair”
― June Gervais

“Marianna, take this on your travels. Carry it in your skin, snug against the nerves. The ink will fade; you will change; so will I. But whenever you see this tattoo — wherever you go, whatever you decide—remember this love goes with you.”
― June Gervais, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair

“A tattoo wasn't just a decal on your body. It was something invisible made visible. A truth you'd kept to yourself that you were finally willing to have in the open, to be seen.”
― June Gervais, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair

“For nearly nineteen years she'd wriggled around Blue Claw, like a little glow-in-the-dark fish. All the while, two hours away, everything glowed in the dark.”
― June Gervais, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair