The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Quotes

“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“She had shown Laura that David was less hers than she had ever thought and the pieces of him she did own were being taken.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“That was normal. That was regular and real.. It didn't look like a place [she] could get to from here.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“They sat quietly, both thinking of Marty Gray, and of all the bad things that can happen to young girls who are shy and good and obedient. The secret keepers. The easily led.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“Her whole body sang with a sick gladness that this was any child but hers. It was as immediate and involuntary as her heartbeat, and in her next breath, shame crept in. Not Shelby, thank God, thank God, but this girl was someone’s.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming

“sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming