Where There's a Will Quotes

“There’s only so much time a person’s allowed to grieve before it becomes an inconvenience, I’ve come to learn. Before the clock speeds up, and the world goes on spinning without you, you either pull yourself out in time to catch up, or you get left behind.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“The sun will always rise again.” I shrug. “You just need to make it through the night. Take it day by day—moment by moment if you need to—until you reach the other side. Nothing lasts forever.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“There’re a lot of meanings behind this symbol, but that’s the one I chose for myself. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” And my heart... It. Just. Explodes. There’s no other word to describe it.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I hate you.” If this is hate, baby, I think, licking across his teeth, I don’t know if I’d survive your love.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“it’s a song only he can hear. One that calls to that bottomless beast inside him, begging for everything to just stop. Please, just one more, one more hit to make it all go away—”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“There’s only so much time a person’s allowed to grieve before it becomes an inconvenience, I’ve come to learn.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I don’t think she’d want you to be sad,” I tell him after a moment. “You never had a mom, but I do, and I’m pretty sure that’s, like, a rule or something. Moms don’t want their kids sad. Especially on birthdays.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Art is a lot like a parasite. An invasion of undeniable need to share your soul with the world. To try and make the world a little better than how you found it. It consumes you to the point of desperation. Begging you to just let it out; see me, hear me.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Waylon taps the mic a couple times, waiting for the crowd to quiet. Smirking, he presses his mouth to where his fingers just were. “Hi.” Annnndddddd there goes my boxers.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“If Waylon has a problem with you, then I have a problem with you. Capiche?”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I am drowning. Drowning in overwhelming want for this guy. This fucking guy who just told me I was once his everything, when I was sure I was only ever his nothing.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I can’t tell him”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Snapshots of moments that should be completely fucking meaningless—inconsequential—but are now suddenly bright and vivid in a way that makes me wonder how I ever forgot. How I ever convinced myself they meant nothing.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“He smiles and something seems to...crack right open inside me. I had a lava lamp once. Dropped it. Shattered it. There was nothing left but chips of glass and gooey green slime. I kind of feel like that. Like broken glass. Like goo. I don’t know what it means”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“There’s only so much time a person’s allowed to grieve before it becomes an inconvenience”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Grief was like a fever”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“all the heart really wants is death. Why beat at all, if it’s not beating to one day stop? We convince ourselves that we have a purpose, a reason for existing at all, but the truth is—we’re nothing more than empires waiting to fall, deluding ourselves into thinking we’re invincible. That we’re forever.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Way and Will. Will and Way. Always.” Always”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“The only thing that was in my hands. So long as I had the will to make it through another day”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“To this day”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Starting from scratch. Building something new. Despite what our brains are conditioned to believe”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Because in the end”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Stop me,” I tell him gravelly”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Because that’s the thing about life. It doesn’t have to make sense. It doesn’t have to come full circle. We just like to believe it does.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I watch with my heart somewhere in the bottom of my stomach as his terrified green-gold eyes drop down to my mouth. His brow wrinkles, and he starts to shake his head. So I do the only thing I can think of to ease his mind. I’ve never seen him cry, but if he cries now⁠— I just can’t. I can’t deal with that. So I kiss him instead. Right smack on the lips with enough pressure and precision there should never be any doubt as to what I’m doing. It’s just Waylon and me and the heart burning in my chest in this long, dragged out moment. One I never want to end. I. Kiss. Him. This boy. My best friend.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“This isn’t the first time we’ve been naked together, but it may as well be. Now that I can actually see him. Now that I’m stone-cold sober. Now that I’m no longer running from this. From what I want. Who I want.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“I gotta go.” His lashes flutter rapidly, startled. “What?” I walk around him, attention laser-focused on the pile of clothes I left by the bathroom door. The shirt’s wrinkled to shit, and I’m pretty sure there’s a blue vomit stain on my jeans, but at least my boxers are relatively clean. A hand grips my shoulder from behind just as I reach the door to the bathroom. “Don’t.” I freeze. With my back still to Waylon, I slide my eyes shut and count to three. “Don’t what?” His breaths seem to have sped up, and I can feel the warm puffs of air on my naked back. That’s how close he is. “Go,” he says so quietly I nearly miss it. “Don’t...go. Just⁠—”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“His dark blond hair curls over his eyes, and I just...I can’t resist. Not anymore. Not now, when he looks so damn peaceful. Quiet. The guy’s rarely ever fucking quiet. I card my fingers through the pieces, brushing them away. I tell myself I’ll just stay here for a minute. Just a minute... I’m not sure when I cave and gather his head in my lap, but here we are. My fingers play idly with his hair as I stare blankly at the wall.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right?” he says simply.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“You’re a real pain in my ass, you know that?” I smirk. “And not the fun kind.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will