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“My whole childhood is littered with memories of being alone and lonely and abandoned and disregarded in our family, and the only part that makes it feel okay is that Bridget was there with me. Through all the ways our parents failed us, my sister did not. My sister is the lace trimming around all of it”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“I touch a stone and for the briefest of moments genuinely wonder whether I’ll fall through it like in Outlander. I don’t.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“Eternally sunny, then.”
“Oh—” He grimaces. “Can’t promise that. Storms always come, they have to — brings balance.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“Oh—” He grimaces. “Can’t promise that. Storms always come, they have to — brings balance.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
“How he was my teacher and my partner in so many key life areas. My best friend and my family and my pillow and my quilt. Each of them are like bricks laid in the house I built to love him, but the point is really that house I built isn’t a monument to a love I used to have. It’s a house I want to live inside of still.”
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
― Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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