Joshilyn Jackson quotes:

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.

I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.

A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.