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

“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

“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

“I know what it’s like to live in the aftermath, when the veil of mourning has lifted, and the world around you seems to rush forward. Brighter and louder than ever, while you’re still trapped in the shadow of what you lost. That defining moment where life, as you knew it, shattered. Severing your life into a Before and After.”
― 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

“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

“Will Foster was a bright spot in a sea of darkness. He was something to hold on to when I was a kid and life at home was caving in around me. It got wires tangled up in my naive brain, convincing me of feelings and ideas that weren’t so much a product of the heart, but driven by fear. By loneliness.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Trust. He doesn’t trust me. Then again, why would he? Why should he? It hurts something fierce—more than I expected—but I can’t exactly blame him. I can’t be mad. I shouldn’t even be hurt. I let him down. I broke my promise. I ruined us. But here’s the kicker⁠— He ruined me first. Maybe, just maybe, this is my chance to fix that.”
― 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

“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

“If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last year, it’s that there’s always more to the story. Nothing’s ever as simple as it seems. And more than not, we only see what we want to see.”
― 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

“Hearts are not known for their patience after all—they only ever just want what they want, when they want it, with no regard for the consequences. And if the heart doesn’t get what it wants? It becomes violent. “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

“I might just be chasing something that never was to begin with. A home that was never really mine to have, even way back then. Maybe I’m just replacing one ghost with another. Seeking out something I’ve just built up in my head all these years, that, in reality, amounts to nothing at all.”
― 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. 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. That’s just the way it goes.”
― Jessie Walker, Where There's a Will

“Why’d you run, baby?” “It hurts.” With gritted teeth, she told me to never scare her like that again. That the city was no place for a little boy to run wild. Grief was like a fever, she said. I just had to let it run its course. Sweat it out, just sweat it out, baby. She didn’t account for the fact that some fevers don’t break on their own. That sometimes you have to do something drastic in order to heal. Sometimes the only option is to flee. Run. Run, run, run...”
― 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 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