Celeste

“You go to bed, too, and don’t fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.' As she spoke, her tone shifted. She wasn’t talking about me anymore. 'You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Almost Sisters

“The playground song in my head went, First comes love, then comes hideous betrayal, then comes endless regret requiring expensive therapy. It was a terrible song. It didn’t even rhyme. But it was mine, and I hadn’t made a family, even though I’d wanted one”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Almost Sisters

“She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone

“You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car. You gotta plant more zinnias.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Almost Sisters