8 Quotes by Jess Lourey

It's only possible to provide help when it's asked for. The rest of the time, all you can give is love.

The trick of life,” she said, “is that you can’t hold the pain for too long. The magic, either.

It’s only possible to provide help when it’s asked for. The rest of the time, all you can give is love.

I’d been thirteen, not stupid, though a lot of people confuse the two.

Every woman should have pearls,” Mom said, “to remind ourselves that grit under pressure becomes beauty.

He watched a lot of TV. I guess many people did. Maybe like him, they preferred their lives delivered to them in a box.

I heard the distaste in her voice, the disdain for people who lived in trailers. She wouldn’t say it out loud, but there it was. I wanted to ask her what she thought of people who lived in houses with scary drunks, but I didn’t. Those sorts of questions only made her angry.

He wore his anger like knives, and you didn’t want them aimed at you.