Derreck > Derreck's Quotes

“You always make me get so fuckin’ emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“There aren’t laws for emotions, Tristan. There isn’t a magical timeframe where it’s okay to fall in love with someone or okay to fall out of it. Emotions don’t play by rules. That’s what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.”
― Jay Bell, Kamikaze Boys

“That the sun still rose the next morning was incredibly unjust. Someone good had died. People still woke up, had breakfast, went to work, and it was wrong. Flower petals still opened in the sun’s early light, and animals still grazed the day away, their minds untroubled. Someone good had died and the world had the audacity to move on.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’

‘What’s it mean?’

”Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.”

- Tim Wyman”
― Jay Bell

“When everyone else saw the two of them, they saw Gavin who was nothing but trouble and Davy who was a wallflower, but in Gavin's estimation, if you looked inside you'd see that Gavin was just a scared little boy and Davy was his hero.”
― Kade Boehme, Trouble & the Wallflower

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“...I Know it hurts. But sometimes it's the greatest things in our lives that cause us the most pain. That's why it hurts so much, because they're so important.”
― C.J. Bishop, Abel: Shattered

“Love does not hurt people. Fear does.”
― Jeff Erno, Dumb Jock

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll