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“Why do important things have to be things that hurt us? Why can something only be valued and held in high regard if it’s…dark and damaging? Why can’t we keep the bright things? The lovely things? Why can’t those things be special too?”
― B.K. Borison, And Now, Back to You

“It was so natural being with her, I wondered if loving her was a contract that I'd signed in a former life.”
― Abby Jimenez, Say You'll Remember Me

“Try to make it sound like having too much history with Magnolia Parks isn’t the mounted deer I’ll hang in the hallway of who I am, like loving her isn’t the first thing you see when you walk through the door of me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“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