Gentleman Practice Quotes

“I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard.
Haven't finished cleaning the place up
but I'm workin' on it
and clearly I have not yet reached enlightenment
for more than a fleeting moment
but I'm tryin'
and I found somethin' here I want ya to have.
It's not much
just a story
but it's all I've got
so take it.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I’m new to this.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“They both just wish they would’ve known a little sooner about this life

that every loss doesn’t have to cost so much,

doesn’t have to hit so heavy,

doesn’t have to get so dirty.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“But even the best of us forgot how to see a thing hurting.

Even good people knew how to turn bad touch

and genocide into clichés

just to make room for more comfort.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“we felt like paradise had to be more,

more than what it already was,

which was really already

quite sincerely enough.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“there were tricks to getting out
without making sound.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“I will do my best to fill in the blanks
in chronological chaos.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Yes, it was a lame place to try and hide from the end of the world.
But I am young
and passionate enough to believe
that my heroes are giving good answers.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“It will be my joy the day you are certain. I will buy front row tickets to your target practice.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“He is finding the source of his rivers and is willing to cut off the hostile branch.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Ghosts are haunted, not us.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“There is a book

living inside your chest

with dilated instructions

on how to make a safe landing.

It was written

for crash landers.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“This door only opens for the remarkable now.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“I choose to end the compulsive habit of thinking and speaking insecurities.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Throw out the map and the fear, and embrace the freedom that comes from being your own best hope.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“You will be given back the years that the locusts have taken.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Make love to me

like you know I am better

than the worst thing I ever did.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“There is no need to internalize the chaos.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Leave all those things out of your mind,

out of your reason,

out of this room,

off of this street,

and away from this city,

in a place you will never visit.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“You built a corner around me

because I couldn’t be backed into one...”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“You’re so clever

the way you slit the big out of people

then pat them on the fault lines.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“He held a need to be forgiven on his shoulder.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“I kick the backs of seats when I don’t get the life I need. Do not block the aisles if I experience absolution. There should be enough room to dance in it. A room the size of all the wisdom I have so far gathered up  but have not yet consistently handled well.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“Ed said, “I don’t know if I can do this.

I’m an angry man.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“If anyone ever loves you that hard, hard as you’ve been dreaming, chances are you will not believe them”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice

“I wish you could see what you look like  when you’re still here.”
― Buddy Wakefield, Gentleman Practice