Friday Brown Quotes

“Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble halved but things like love and joy are multiplied when you have someone to share them with.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“You can't always make good choices. Sometimes you have to settle for making a choice you can live with.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Some things aren't meant for this world. They're too fragile, and life breaks them.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I am nothing. I feel like nothing. I want my life to matter. What if one day I'm gone and nobody ever knew I existed?”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Sometimes we keep the physical objects until memory is enough”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“The way I see it, you have two options. Run, run like hell, or dive in”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“They all count, even the wrong turns; they all add more to who you become. Nobody wants to be a one-way street. There are signposts if you cared to look.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“It takes time to believe again”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I was hard-wired to run when I cared too much”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I told her about the best and the worst. The slow and sleepy places where weekdays rolled past like weekends and Mondays didn’t matter. Battered shacks perched on cliffs overlooking the endless, rumpled sea. Afternoons spent waiting on the docks, swinging my legs off a pier until boats rolled in with crates full of oysters and crayfish still gasping. Pulling fishhooks out of my feet because I never wore shoes, playing with other kids whose names I never knew. Those were the unforgettable summers. There were outback towns where you couldn’t see the roads for red dust, grids of streets with wandering dogs and children who ran wild and swam naked in creeks. I remembered climbing ancient trees that had a heartbeat if you pressed your ear to them. Boomboom-boomboom. Dreamy nights sleeping by the campfire and waking up covered in fine ash, as if I’d slept through a nuclear holocaust. We were wanderers, always with our faces to the sun.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Life was short, and if it wasn't sweet you were in the wrong place with the wrong people”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“You're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Some kinds of crazy you make for yourself, others you inherit”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“So you're all alone. And, for a short while, at least until it sinks in, you can fake anything.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“This is what you wanted, I told myself. To be alone. To keep moving.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“There comes a time when you decide you're done playing the victim. It just came a bit sooner for me.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Life is full of wrong turns and dead ends and pathways that peter out”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I was the sum of two people, one dead, the other unknown.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Where you've been isn't as important as where you're headed”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I wanted to live, to take the open road before me.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Maybe that was the thing about beginnings - they always seemed better than middles or endings. And if only I ever had beginnings and my past was so perfect, then the future would never measure up. I didn't want to live like that.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“Wrong turns just added more to who you are.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“We were wanderers, always with our faces to the sun.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown

“I never would have believed I could kiss a boy that way. I thought there were only two types of kissing: the passionate, rip your clothes off kind, and the dry, chaste peck you gave an elderly person because it was expected. But there was another kind of kiss. The kind that sealed a moment in a time capsule, forever: a small moment that branded my soul.”
― Vikki Wakefield, Friday Never Leaving