All I Ever Wanted Quotes

“A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“I know that this is as close as I'll ever get. He's broken in ways I'm not.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“When you're a child, what you see and hear and comprehend can be sorted into little boxes. Then, as you live and learn, all those boxes open up and become rooms. The more you experience, the bigger those rooms get. If you're lucky enough, there are some people you will love, and who will love you, long enough to see their boxes grow into vast spaces. You'll understand things that had no meaning. You'll find dark corners that only light up for the briefest moments. But when you keep getting lost, you just end up with a pile of boxes.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“Who, being love, is poor? Oscar Wilde”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“The street looks like the set of a ghost town in an old western movie, but there are eyes everywhere.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“I want to let go of everything, every nagging little part of me that wants to stop because this is the vortex. The quicksand that I could fall into, willingly, and never leave. The end of me.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“In the back of my mind I know that this is wrong and I have somewhere I need to be. Like laughing at a joke, then remembering that somebody died. Guilty pleasure.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted

“in our street everybody knows everybody’s business. Someone will notice I rode up and walked down. Over fences and through keyholes, your business can pass like a Chinese whisper and beat you home, even if you’re running.”
― Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted