Georgia Carter Quotes

“But then this thought floats through my head: You survive whatever you need to, however you can.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“This is it. This is what music exists for. This is why birds sing. This is why the tide pulls and the water falls. It's why the sun rises and it's why the moon hangs all ghosty white.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“He gives me a long look, then kisses me again. It's not rushy or urgent. It's not a bookend kiss, he's not signing off, he doesn't say goodbye-he just kisses me, hands in my hair, soft and melty, and the he slips out of my room.
His kisses are commas.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“So maybe it's the cosmicness of it, or maybe it's the way his mouth feels against mine-like some sort of soul resuscitation, like Sam Penny is a heart-stretch put on the planet to reinstill faith back into mankind so we have something worthwhile to write the poems about.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“He drops his head as he laughs, then looks back up at me and the light from the sun make his eyes look like little stars-or maybe the light's just coming form inside him?”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“Sam Penny doing any of those things would be poetry, but him like that on the bed with a book is Shakespeare.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“The great, deep stirring begins in the center of me, which some might call a longing, but I think of it more as an emptying. And it aches in my shoulders and my ribs because I know it won't be filled tonight, and when he stops kissing me, which he eventually will because he has to because that's how kisses work, it will tear me in two, because I think I've been waiting to know Sam Penny all my life.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will