Wicked Girls Quotes

“Why uproot
a perfectly healthy
white blazing star
from the soil
to allow room
for a roadside weed?”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls

“It may be safe to walk,
but where do you go
when all directions wear
the same black ashen despair?”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls

“Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls

“All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls

“The trees' bare bony fingers
point crookedly
towards Heaven or Hell
or worse than that, towards nowhere.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Wicked Girls