“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
“Every year in this country, people are evicted from their homes not by the tens of thousands or even the hundreds of thousands but by the millions.”
― Matthew Desmond, quote from Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your relative.”
― quote from HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
― Donald J. Trump, quote from Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Listen to me, dear. When life hands you something, you take it, for in all likelihood, there’s a large crisis heading your way.”
― Louise Blackwick, quote from The Weaver of Odds
“I had thought that I would never be able to grow tired of loving, but one night I woke to an absence of love and felt no torture: it was the absence of this tortute that truly scared me, that tortured me”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
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