A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty Quotes

“I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

“A whole slew of them lived outside Immita on a big piece of trailer-dotted land everyone called Ducktown, and they were all cousins and brothers and aunts with one another so many times over that it was hard to tell who was exactly related and how. Growing up, I’d had six or so in school right around my grade, but I was a sophomore now, and only one was left. Either the rest had failed so many times I’d left them behind by middle school or they had plain dropped out. OMG”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

“It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

“We may be broken, but our scars are a testament to our strength.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

“This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes nothing saves you. But fuck it, she’s still here. She is a living thing, with twelve pins now pressed into the tree-house oak in the backyard and a thirteenth coming”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

“You have a person around for years, maybe you get fond of them even if they aren’t really anything to you, and that struck me as huge and important in some way I couldn’t get a good hold on.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty