“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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“it doesn’t matter where we are going, or what the future brings and what people might do to us, the past always comes back one way or another.”
― Isabella Kruger, quote from Afterlife
“All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from Summer and the City
“You've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.”
― Charlie Kaufman, quote from Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
“They were herded passively into the gas chambers. Weary of being hunted and persecuted, of living in constant fear, they dumbly awaited the hand of the sure physician, Death. For them life had lost all meaning and purpose. To prolong it would merely have prolonged their suffering.”
― Miklós Nyiszli, quote from Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
“She asked another question: "What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?"
This would normally have riled me... but I had come to think of her as Dr. Spock from Star Trek - an emotionless, purely logical creature, at least with regards to her feelings for animals. Like Spock, though, I knew there were one or two things that stirred her, so I gave an honest reply.
"... to be honest, it doesn't matter. No economy will suffer, nobody will go hungry, no diseases will be spawned. Yet there will never be a way to place a value on what we have lost. Future children will see rhinos only in books and wonder how we let them go so easily. It would be like lighting a fire in the Louvre and watching the Mona Lisa burn. Most people would think 'What a pity' and leave it at that while only a few wept”
― Peter Allison, quote from Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide
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