Wasted Words Quotes

“I lived a thousand lives to escape from real life, because real life is boring and shitty.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“We’ve talked it to death, Rose.”
“Well, then talk to its ghost.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“How’d you get to be so smart?"
“Years of being stupid and learning from it.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“He had a collection of cardigans that would give Mister Rogers a boner,”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“My heart was yours from the beginning whether I gave it or not, but I’m giving it to you of my own free will.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Although, at the end of the day, I really did it because I was in love with love.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“To be with someone, to live with someone who you thought you loved and who loved you, only to have them leave you for faults that you believed were strengths, was disorienting to say the least.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. -Ernest Hemingway.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“1) Know who you’re dealing with and put them on their shelf.
2) Don’t date anyone not on your shelf.
3) When something seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“... mornings are dumb.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Everyone likes to read. You just have to find a book that turns you on.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“If you care for him, you can’t wait. Life’s too short. Take it from someone at the end of the road looking back.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“lived a thousand lives to escape from real life, because real life is boring and shitty. There’s no adventure, not like we get with Tolkien or Lewis.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Here’s the thing about having weird parents — they cultivate your weird, thus making weird your normal. Looking”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“I’d always sorted people, just like books in the Dewey Decimal System, where everything had its place.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“I’d never wanted anyone so much. I’d never been so afraid to want someone so much.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Am I not enough for you, Cam?” 　Tears filled her eyes. “You’re too much.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“... taking comfort in the moments we had instead of what would come.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“But adventure was basically my middle name. I’d lived a thousand lives through the books I’d read, which meant I was certain I could conquer just about anything.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Why do you compare yourself to anyone else? To strangers, to what you think Tyler wants? Why can't you just accept who you are and who he is and let that be enough?”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Rose rolled her dark eyes. “Old ladies wear dresses like this because it hides stuff.” “Like hot dogs and lies,” I said.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“chuckled. “Prepare to taste my pain, Ladykiller.” I set down my beer and headed over to the ball return, picking up a nine-pound ball that looked like a galaxy — it was a deep blue, swirled with sparkles like stars.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“We were friends. That was all there was to it, and the fact wasn’t bound to change any time soon.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Cam laughed, and when I looked over at her, possession washed over me. She was so beautiful in a way that held no expectation, unassuming and easy. I felt like a thief or a treasure hunter, like I’d found in her in some long abandoned place that could never dull her brilliance, no matter how lonely or dark it may have been. But now she was mine, and I wasn’t going to let her go.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“Here’s the thing about having weird parents — they cultivate your weird, thus making weird your normal.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“it’s like fantasizing about a book boyfriend. One-hundred-percent of the time, it’s fictional, which makes it harmless.” Rose”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“What if you get scared again?”
“Then I’ll talk to you, and you’ll tell me you love me, and I’ll be fine.”
"No more running?”
“No more running away. Only toward.”
“Promise?”
“I promise.”
“Now I’ve made you afraid.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“The saddest thing was that I think he really did care about me. But we were too different, he said. From different worlds.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“I always did that — listen to them over and over again until I was almost afraid to turn them off, afraid to lose the feeling the music gave me.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words

“I wasn’t wishing for something I couldn’t have. I could have her, but it wouldn’t be easy. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would be worth it.”
― Staci Hart, Wasted Words