Magnolia Parks Quotes

“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I'm ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“I’ll wear it like a badge of honour forever that he loved me first, that he loved me at all.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“How many loves do you get in a lifetime? For me it's just the one. I've had more but as I float away there's only one I'm thinking of. He is what I'm thinking of. Not how he hurt me, not what he did to me, not what we've done to each other. Just him.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“She pulls away from me and as she does, I slip my heart in her back pocket. That’s a lie. She already had it. But I give it to her again for good measure.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Eternally sunny, then.”
“Oh—” He grimaces. “Can’t promise that. Storms always come, they have to — brings balance.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“I wonder if we’ll ever not be like magnets… not be these two things that drift home to each other no matter what. If there is a way to break the spell, I don’t want to know a fucking thing about it.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it’s not proud. It doesn’t dishonour others, it’s not self-seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
But it’s shit. It’s all a lie.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“She could walk all over me, strangle me to death, and I wouldn’t notice. If the emerald eyes are out then I’m dying anyway.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“You can love someone and not have it rule you, not have it dictate your every waking thought and decision. You can love someone and still retain your power and autonomy. You can love someone and have it just be there, a part of you, and still have a completely functional life. Even if it's a life without them. Doesn't sound much like any life I'm interested in, actually.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“But he can't promise he won't hurt me so I don't know how to promise I'll stay.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Rummage through the drawer in my mind as fast as I can to find the words to tell her that I’m coming for her, I’m on my way back, that this is just the long way home.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you.” I tilt my head, looking up at him. “In another life I would have let you.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“But I love you more than I’m angry at you, so I need to figure it out.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“We're fated Woven into the tapestry of the universe, my name right next to hers. We're in the stars.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“She doesn’t know that I’m a wolf and Parks is the moon whose name I’ve howled since I was fifteen.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Touching Parks is like touching no one else. It’s like coming home.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“WHAT ARE YOU SMILING ABOUT YOUR JEANS ARE FROM H&M FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“I think it means something. Or maybe it doesn't and I just want it to because that would give all our pain a purpose.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“How he was my teacher and my partner in so many key life areas. My best friend and my family and my pillow and my quilt. Each of them are like bricks laid in the house I built to love him, but the point is really that house I built isn’t a monument to a love I used to have. It’s a house I want to live inside of still.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“Is it horrible or miraculous that you can feel that feeling so many times throughout your life? Miraculous you survive, horrible you live to feel the world slipping out from under you again.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“She's on the back foot here. All girls are on the back foot when it comes to me and Parks.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“She's my Mecca.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“My whole childhood is littered with memories of being alone and lonely and abandoned and disregarded in our family, and the only part that makes it feel okay is that Bridget was there with me. Through all the ways our parents failed us, my sister did not. My sister is the lace trimming around all of it”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“I wonder if he looks a little bit sad. And the thought rattles through my mind only for a second, but I wonder whether perhaps I’ve had more loves than I knew of in this lifetime.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“He is the drain in the centre of me where all the happy things fall through and that I feel his absence in everything.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“That’s Julian Haites. I couldn’t break his heart if I hit it with a sledgehammer.” “Baby girl—” Gus gives me a look. “You are the sledgehammer.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“How many loves do you get in a lifetime?”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“I look over at her more tenderly than I should, feel an old kind of missing her in my chest that I wish would just die but it can’t seem to take its last breath. Every time it takes one it takes another and another, and it’s never a last breath. Loving her like this is a kind of breathing that feels like dying.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“she’s the current of everything and I’m always just drifting. . . Floating home to her.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home

“The great monument to our love is a withering tree and a blank stone that means the world to me and maybe nothing to anyone else.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home