Magnolia Parks Universe Series 5 Books Collection Set by Jessa Hastings Quotes

“Yes.” I sniff.
I love him like you might love a star.
“Yes, you did?” He stares over at me.
I nod. “Yes.”
His eyes go funny, sort of blurry—he blinks twice and then he yells
“Fuck!” way too loudly to be anything close to discreet.
My head pulls back and I tense up.
“Shit.” He breathes out, shaking his head. “Fuck—”
I watch on in mild horror. “Are you ok—”
“Say it.”
“What?” I stare over at him.
“Can you, please? Say it?” he asks. “Now. Out loud—” He shakes his
head at himself. “Just so I’ve heard you say it one time.”
I open my mouth to protest for a reason I don’t know why and then I stop
myself, swallow and look him in the eye.
“I loved you.”
He nods a couple of times then closes his eyes for a few seconds, blows
some air out of his mouth.
“I have to ask—” He looks back over at me, eyes all heavy now. “Was I
ever in with a shot?”
He is a star. Not the shooting kind. Not some flash-in-the-pan meteorite
that burns up on entry into the atmosphere. And stars, they’re undeniably
beautiful, kind of magical. Only come out at the nighttime. Easy enough to
ignore. In a sky full of them, a single star can be difficult to tell apart from
the others. They don’t affect our day-to-day lives, really. You might see it
one night and not the next, and it bears no real consequence other than
perhaps the sky is a little less wonderful on that particular evening. A star is
a star.
“In this world,” I give him a delicate look, “with BJ?” I shake my head.
“I’m sorry.”
“That’s—” He trails, letting out this hollow laugh that I kind of hate. It
doesn’t suit him. His regular laugh is so wonderful. “—fine.” He nods.
“That’s good to know, actually—”
“I’m sorry,” I tell him.
He shakes his head again. “No, don’t be.”
But you see, the thing about stars is that in another galaxy, that star is
also a sun.
“If it wasn’t him, it would be you,” I tell him, for better and for worse.
He blows some more air out of his mouth and catches my eye.
“In another life, yeah?”
I nod and offer him a weak smile. “I’ll meet you there.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks Universe Series 5 Books Collection Set by Jessa Hastings

“You know how ballerinas pick a spot to look at when they're doing a pirouette so they don't get dizzy? Bridget was Magnolia's spot on the wall.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks Universe Series 5 Books Collection Set (Original Cover Collection)

“So if you feel lost some days and you don’t know who you are and you don’t feel like you’re theirs, like Parks’ is just a name you happen to share with them, just remember that I know who you are, and you’re my sister, and that’s my name too.”
― Jessa Hastings , Magnolia Parks Universe Series 5 Books Collection Set by Jessa Hastings

““Parksy, you’re not just my first thought, you’re willfully my second one and my third one and every other thereafter, because when I am dead”–grimace over at her for saying the D-word–“Sorry. But when I am, that’s what they’ll say about me. That I loved you. That I still love you. That even if I die, when I die, and I’m old and I’m ready and god willing you’ve died first because otherwise–up front,” I turn to our friends and family. “–sorry to everyone.” I turn back to her. “If I die, when I die, it will echo through space and through time, and it’ll brush up against the edge of this universe and press into the next one that I loved you more than anything.””
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks Universe Series 5 Books Collection Set by Jessa Hastings