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The Almost Sisters
Joshilyn Jackson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car. You gotta plant more zinnias.”
“she hadn’t known that no one grew up without collecting dings and broken edges.”
“You go to bed, too, and don’t fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.' As she spoke, her tone shifted. She wasn’t talking about me anymore. 'You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car.”
“When things went to shit, girls called their mothers”
“I wanted to fall in love, marry a dork like me, make more dorks.”
“I felt such a well of tenderness for this dear old body. Every piece of it proclaimed how tired it was, but it was lovely, too. Her history was written in it, in the stretch marks left by my father, in the surgery scar on her abdomen and the puckered burn scar on the inside of her left arm, in the simple toll of ninety years of fighting gravity.”
“All of us, every innocent babe born on this planet, gets broken eventually.”
“Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.”
“You go to bed, too, and don’t fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.”
“The South was like that optical-illusion drawing of the duck that is at the same time a rabbit. I’d always see the duck first, his round eye cheery and his bill seeming to smile. But if I shifted my gaze, the duck’s bill morphed into flattened, worried ears. The cheery eye, reversed, held fear, and I could see only a solemn rabbit. The Souths were like that drawing. Both existed themselves, but they were so merged that I could shift from one and find myself inside the other without moving.”
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