Mother May I Quotes

“As time passed, events became mutable. People justified their actions, and the more shame they felt about a memory, the more they chewed it over, fretting and defending and editing, until they could live with it.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

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― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

“They should make amends,” she said. “They should face her, and confess, and try to make it right. They should go to jail and do volunteer work and show their sons they must be better. They should have to live with it, too, because I think no matter what they tell themselves, it must stay in them. A canker in them. A black place.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

“He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn’t have the context. In his head she’d faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

“He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

“You walk like you own everything you see.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I

“The world was dangerous and broken. But people had to feel safe anyway, to get on with the business of living.”
― Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I