Home / Quotes / Quote by Jill McCorkle

Quote by Jill McCorkle

“It made me realize that Beatrice had changed; that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.”

Author

Jill McCorkle is an American short story writer known for her delicate emotional portrayal and profound social insight. Her works often focus on the lives of ordinary people, particularly those in the New England region. Her writing style is highly appreciated by readers, and her works have won numerous literary awards. more

“Jenny remembers what it was like, all those years ago. It was never dolls for her, nothing so tangible as that. It was more of a feeling. As if, for the first several years of her life, everything held over her a sort of knowledge and insistence. Fence posts, wallpaper, the lawn at certain hours of the day. These things glowered at her, or smiled. Even something as ordinary as the blue rolling chair in her father's office had some hold on her, some whisper of a new dimension in its puffs of dust sent upward by her fists against its cushions. There was an intensity inherent in everything until, one day, there wasn't. The blue chair rolled on its wheels to the window when she pushed it. The rising dust was rising dust. And when it was gone, there was only a knot of longing somewhere deep inside of her, a vacant ache: adolescence. Boredom. It's why we fall in love, Jenny will tell June. We fall in love to get back to that dimension, that wonder. She goes to the laundry room, where, from a pile of clean clothes, she picks out a few articles of June's, folds them, then goes upstairs to knock on her daughter's door and tell her that this, this lost doll world, is the reason there is love.”

Love Growing Up Childhood Falling In Love Adolescence

Book:Idaho

Source: Idaho

“Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.”

Quote by Jill McCorkle

Author

You May Also Like