Joshilyn Jackson > Joshilyn's Quotes

“This is what it means to die: You do not finish.”
― Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shine

“Who cares if it's dangerous? Who wants to be the person who doesn't touch two bells together to make a sound, who doesn't hit a baseball with a bat, doesn't grind and orange against a knife. In life, there is only collision to keep us from dissolution, and there is only love to keep us from death. In this bumping into that, there is salvation and sacrament, an end to the endless falling, a wall between us and oblivion.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

“It’s more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its course, spinning backward, or the other way, which was the right way all along. And afterward, the universe was exactly the same, but infinitely more right.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

“As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

“Sometimes you just have to keep away from the things that are trying to kill you, even if they're the same thing that gave birth to you. Sometimes those two things are the same, and their name is mother.”
― Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

“A death happened at 3:12 in the morning. A private death between the mother and herself, before she could finish her one last dream. This is what it means to die: You do not finish.”
― Lydia Netzer- Shine Shine Shine