Someone Else's Love Story Quotes

“Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“He knows me so well. I don’t have to say it. Not any of it. Not yet. There will be time for it later. For now, it is enough. It is enough and it is easy. Easy to walk the last few steps between us. Easy and so beautiful to step into his arms.

He kisses me. He kisses me.

I kiss him back.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“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.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“It’s one thing to decide what you want. It’s quite another to know how to get it. William doesn’t know how, but he is trying.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“He was so beautiful. He wasn’t mine. I should run to the mountains now, and hide. I should run right into his arms and demand that he close them around me. I should run home to my mother and cry into her lap.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“A whole and grown-­up person would go and simply tell him. I’m in love with you. A whole and grown-­up person would ask him. Can you please love me back?”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“How stupid. My mom and dad had lost each other, and for what? So they could fit better at their parents’ tables at Christmas and Passover? So their brothers and sisters could be comfortable? The families who had worked so hard to tear them apart had gone smugly back to their own lives after it was over. I didn’t see any of my grandparents more than once a year. I got colorful birthday cards with twenty-­dollar bills in them from my aunts and uncles on my birthday.

Meanwhile, my parents spent their lives so lonely. Dad wandered, seeking home in a mistress’s Mimmy-­canted face. Mimmy waited, her lamp trimmed, for a day that never came.

Meanwhile, all they’d ever wanted was alive inside the other.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“Miracle is another word for magic, and magic is only science, unexplained.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“I’d only wanted, desperately, for him to be a thing that I could have.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“I’ve never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another’s eyes.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“William didn’t believe in God, but he did believe in Bridget’s love for God. It was a manifestation of her love of goodness, and William could believe in goodness. He saw it in her. He loved it in her. If”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“if I’d have to convert. It would upset my parents, but at least it would upset both of them equally. Dad would feel I’d chosen a form of Christianity, and Mimmy would be equally certain that I hadn’t.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“William Ashe doesn’t believe in destiny. The word itself is actually shorthand people use when they wish to mysticize random events or externalize the results of their own willful choices.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“That’s not how families are structured. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“He had lost his child; he knew how fast things could spin out of control. He knew a person could lose anything in half a heartbeat.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“She was exactly like her house, expensive and elegant, but not at all comfortable.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“I’d have to run away to New York and be a hooker and eat a pound of heroin and die.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“It wasn’t like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad’s watch.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and the loser in their war.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of Mimmy and my dad was not for me. It was for her. It was for them. I was so sick with understanding that I was practically yelling at her.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story

“I'd let him put his hand under my shirt, over the bra, where he kneaded with delighted disbelief at my booby. It had been super exciting, not really because it felt that great to have my booby treated like a yeast roll, but because we had both been so thrilled that I had let him touch it.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else's Love Story