“God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man's heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he's busy picking them up, they're squirming in through a back window.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“The things that happen to me just make me more me.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works”
― Joshilyn Jackson, quote from Gods in Alabama
“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, quote from Gods in Alabama
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“But mostly I wrote letters of gratitude: the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn’t happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I’m truly beside myself.”
― Nora Ephron, quote from I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“Said Gilgamesh to him, to Uta-napishti the Distant:
'O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go?
A thief has taken hold of my flesh!
For there in my bed-chamber Death does abide,
and wherever I turn, there too will be Death.”
― quote from The Epic of Gilgamesh
“I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.”
― quote from It
“The Fool card represented one who walked without fear, aware of the choices she made in the journey of life, life itself being defined as a state of courage and wisdom and not an uncontrollable participation in society, as many people experienced their lives.”
― Ana Castillo, quote from So Far from God
“I’m less opposed to pink than I am to dresses, for the simple reason that I hated dresses and skirts as a child. I hated the way they impeded my mobility and playground power, and I hated the fear I had while wearing them that with one stiff breeze I would be exposed to the world, with no choice afterward but to slip quietly into a permanent vegetative state.”
― Natalie Angier, quote from Woman: An Intimate Geography
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