Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index Quotes

“When he catches me, and we roll on our backs toward the star-filled sky, I do not see the diamonds, the glittering shards that have shone there for billions of years, but the blue-black canopy between them. I see it and think of my watercolors, of carving Bristol from linoleum, of Polaris-with a twang, of Camie's hand in them all, of the thousand ways she'll never see her touch unfold-and somehow recognize it's this very darkness, the cutouts, the envelope of holes that makes the stars so sharp and beautiful. All that absence isn't negative space.”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“Grief is like that: One minute you think you know the rules and it's one card, one emotion at a time, the next, the deck explodes all around you.”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“I'm the un-sugared plum fairy: champion of reality, dosing bad and good. Sometimes unsweetened means raw, but isn't it more truthful that way?”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“A flicker of doubt passes over me. "This isn't an attempt to get me back into singing, is it?"

"Lemon, Lemon, Lemon. Always thinkin' about Number One. I'll have you know that this"—Brand gestures at himself, at Keegan and their instruments, the venue—"is about making you fall for me, and it is entirely selfish.”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“You must get tired of hearing that,” she says after a moment. “I mean—of people censoring themselves around you.” Waiter?”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“You never know when you won't be able to take something back again.”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

“A flicker of doubt passes over me. "This isn't an attempt to get me back into singing is it?"

"Lemon, Lemon, Lemon. Always thinkin' about Number One. I'll have you know that this>"-Brand gestures at himself, at Keegan and their instruments, the venue-"is about you fall for me, and it is entirely selfish”
― Julie Israel, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index