ZEHRA

“She looked at me, really looked at me. “I like your face.”
Parks doesn’t remember saying that. But I remember her saying it. It
set me on a course for life.
I was high as a fucking kite for the rest of that day. Probably been
chasing that feeling ever since. And sometimes I wish I could go back in
time and tell little me to fucking run—that this girl is going to ruin you,
she’ll be all you think of, all the time, she’s going to bake biscuits, grind up
your heart and use it for sprinkles, she’ll hurt you and you’ll hurt her, and
you’ll never, fucking ever, get past her. But I can’t”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“That’s the interminable
problem of my existence post Magnolia Parks. She’s the only one. Only one
whose shit I’ll put up with, the only one who fucks me over and around and
I’ll stick around for, the only person who’s ever had my heart in a headlock.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks

“While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.”
― Douglas Horton

“Everything wonderful, everything magical, everything painful,
everything beautiful and spectacular and wretched and defining that has
happened to me happened with him.
And I hate him for that.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks