Celeste

“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

“All of us, every innocent babe born on this planet, gets broken eventually.”
― 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

“You don’t see it, but next happens anyway and always. With or without you.” “No,”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Almost Sisters