10 Quotes & Sayings By Joshilyn Jackson

Joshilyn Jackson is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including the Southern Gothic novel The Coldest Night, which was named one of the best books of the year by Booklist and Library Journal. Her latest book is The Last Southern Woman Standing, published in August, 2013. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Best American Short Stories, O Magazine, and The Paris Review. Jackson has received numerous awards for her short fiction, including a Pushcart Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship Read more

She lives in Athens, Georgia.

God gave us crying so other folks could see when...
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God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us. Joshilyn Jackson
...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.
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...nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener. Joshilyn Jackson
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I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on. Joshilyn Jackson
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You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl. Joshilyn Jackson
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People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works Joshilyn Jackson
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...the way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes. Joshilyn Jackson
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Oh, honey, ” she said, her tone echoing Wattie’s. “I’m not sick. I’m only dying. Joshilyn Jackson
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I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it. Joshilyn Jackson
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The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken. Joshilyn Jackson