Wild Wind Quotes

“He was hers. And he had been since she was fourteen. And she was his. She knew this. Because she had been since eternity.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“I sense you need space to sort your head out. The thing is, I don’t. I need you. I’ve needed you since that day I first saw you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“I sense you need space to sort your head out. The thing is, I don’t. I need you. I’ve needed you since that day I first saw you. I need you to ask. I need to talk things through with you. I need to lay shit on you. And you can’t hold back, thinking I need space. Thinking I need what you need. I’ve been shouldering everyone else’s shit for a long time, honey. I don’t want that. I want someone with me to help me carry the load.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“He wanted to give her a love that wouldn’t die even with death.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“He died before he taught me how to love….Everyone loves him so much” he pushed out. “And I have no fucking clue who he is.”
… “Oh, baby...He’s you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“If you believe in God or fate or destiny or karma or whatever, I was there for you the day you needed me the most. And I may have fucked up along the way, but I’m standing right here telling you, unless shit goes south in a way neither of us can turn that tide, I’ll always be there for you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“What you said about me being your person … I think you’re my person too.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“I am not high. Everyone knows Disney World is better than Disneyland,” he reiterated what he’d said five seconds before.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“You had something he didn’t have and he’s in a position where all he lost is surrounding him all the time. He can’t get away from it. But he also can’t understand it. Not in the way everyone around him does. And that has to be…well, it has to be torture. To be of something so good and pure, and never having known the touch of it. Except as a phantom. A ghost. A story someone tells that is integral to who you are, but to you, it will only ever be just a story.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“I give a shit. I was at work, Arch texted, and I jumped on my bike to listen to what you might have to say. You don’t have anything to say, all right. But I’m havin’ a cherry Coke and I’m makin’ you a malt or whatever you want and we’re gonna just be. But we’re doing it together. You with a guy who cares and me there to listen if you decide to talk. So, will you go to the soda fountain with me?”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind

“You got oats to sow, you cut her loose, and pray like fuck when you’re done wasting your time doin’ shit you woulda preferred doin’ with her, that she’s still there.”
― Kristen Ashley, Wild Wind