Clipped Wings Quotes

“Everyone has scars, Tenley.
If we're lucky, they're only on the outside".”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Any kind of modification, whether it’s to alter physical features, like cosmetic surgery, or to decorate, like piercings and tattoos, cause some degree of discomfort. But that’s the point, isn’t it? It’s cathartic because it’s the promise of change in some form or another. My tattoos give the memory related to the art a place to exist outside of my head, on my body. At least that’s my interpretation, but not everyone feels the same way I do.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I was starting to think of her as mine. For the first time in my life, I wanted someone for myself. And I would take her any way she came.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I want you, only you, all of you, for as long as I can have you.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I hadn’t considered the possibility that I might find someone who would understand what I had endured and want me anyway, even though I wasn’t whole.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“You don’t usually work Mondays, do you? What about Tuesday?
I grinned. She knew I didn’t work on Monday. That meant she was aware of my schedule. Nice. We were both creepers.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Do you really think you can order me around?” He crossed his arms over his chest in a show of dominance.
“I have more cupcakes in my apartment. You can have them if you fix this tonight.”
“Are you trying to bribe me?”
“Is it working?”
“Yes.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“From a single glance it was clear that he was fearless, unchained and unfettered by the confines of what society deemed acceptable; Hayden embodied everything I wasn’t but wanted to be.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I can’t change it. It’s part of who I was. Past tense. All I know is that I want you, all the fucking time, every day, endlessly. I don’t know how to deal with that. I don’t know how to make sense of it without overwhelming you, and I don’t want to tell you anything that’s going to jeopardize it.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Everyone has scars, Tenley. If we’re lucky, they’re only on the outside.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“June Cleaver fused with a Suicide Girl.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“appened to her to be too big for me to handle. “Maybe I can fix her. Jamie fixed you, right? So maybe I can do that for Tenley.” Lisa’s smile was sad. “It’s not that simple, Hayden. We’re not machines. We don’t have replacement parts. I love Jamie, he’s my world and he always will be, but he didn’t fix me. He gave me a reason to fix myself.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I don’t want to be alone anymore.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Do you think I’m too broken to be fixed?” The”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“In the weeks since I first met her she’d managed to break through my armor, getting under my skin. I’d let my guard down.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“but the more ink he added, the more vulnerable I felt. There was a chance I might shatter if I revealed too much.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“We were both slaves to the guilt we harbored.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Getting to know the man underneath would never be easy. And yet here he was, letting me in, hoping I would do the same.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“His armor of ink and steel protected him; it kept most at a distance.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I had spent the past ten months cultivating solitude, but now I wanted contact, physical and emotional.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Hayden embodied everything I wasn’t but wanted to be. I spent my entire life trying to color inside the lines, only to wind up restrained by them.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“my attempt at juvenile humor. “She wants a tattoo,”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“All I know is that I want you, all the fucking time, every day, endlessly.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I don’t want to be alone anymore.”
“I know. Maybe now you don’t have to be.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Only you, I whispered, the truth in those two words more devastating than he could understand. I was so lost in him.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings