Never Have I Ever Quotes

“No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it. Our hurts are heavy, and we let them sink. Every day they drift lower, settling in murky places where the light can’t reach.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“People say, I don’t know how she lives with herself, but every single one of them was living with their own worst thing, just fine. No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“We were grown-up women, so we packed our worsts away in hidden boxes. We were mothers, so we sank those boxes under jobs and mortgages and meal plans. Mothers have to sink those boxes deep.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“I kept my secrets, telling myself that they were the past. I ignored the ones that were still alive. The ones that touched every current breath, the ones I couldn't even tell myself.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“Well-spoken white people from prominent families came out on top in our broken court system. It wasn’t fair, but it was true.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“so I gave her a line from The Princess Bride, our favorite movie. “‘Buttercup doesn’t get eaten by the eels at this time.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“In that beauty, so vast and varied, I felt my own smallness in the wide, wild world. It let me forget myself and yet be wholly present. It let me stop trying to die. If”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“didn’t want my life to be interesting ever, ever again, but I liked interesting on paper, contained between closable covers. I didn’t mind this Roux person hijacking our decorous, mild fun. Just this once.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“The roads had been deserted, but there'd been windows all around us, dark and silent, each its own glass eye.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever

“Our hurts are heavy, and we let them sink. Every day they drift lower, settling in murky places where the light can't reach.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever