Daisy Haites Quotes

“I think I understand for a fleeting moment why everything that’s bad and painful and sad is worth it if you love someone, because I’ll remember how he’s looking at me now forever.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Daisy’s that feeling you get when you’re floating on your back in a pool and there’s so much fucking noise around you until you put your ears under and it all goes quiet. That’s how she feels to me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“The feel of him is my favourite feeling in the world, for all of history and all of time, write it down, ring the town bell and tell the scribes—I’ll wear it on my heart’s sleeve forever that I love him.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Loving you was a good reason not to love anyone else.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“What are we then?” I ask defiantly, putting some distance between us which he crosses with one step anyway. He kisses my cheek. “Each other’s.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I can’t even look at him because I’m a flower and he’s the whole entire sun and he’ll wilt me away,”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I know your freckles too,” he tells me.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“No guns at the dinner table. That's my one rule”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“If you keep pushing someone away, eventually they’ll stay there.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“The universe, actually, is ablaze. The planets lose track of their orbits, the birds are poets now and all the songs written before this and all the ones that’ll come after this are about this moment; about how when we’re standing my ear rests right where his heart is, how one hand of his swallows a whole half of my waist. The beautiful nothingness of this, the most intimate moment of my life to date, a life that, actually, has been dotted with much intimacy and I think nothing will ever beat him resting his chin on top of my head.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I’ve never felt like this and it’s now, right now, this exact second that I realise I am in love with Daisy Haites. And then it is immediately after, in that exact second, that I realise I’ve lost her.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Memories are funny, don’t you think? Creep up on you, break through the ground of your mind like a weed, even when they don’t have permission to be there.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I rolled my eyes, trying not to smile too much, trying not to mount him on the spot, trying not to melt into loving him accidentally.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I don't want to let her go - I didn't even want to love her in the first place, but here we are and I do, and I wouldn't take it back now. Couldn't. Even if I could, I couldn't, because I'll love her till I die. Whether I have her or not, whether she wants me back or not, I'm in, even if she's out”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I'm obsessed with him, I think he's every constellation in the sky”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Because she’s yours. And even when she isn’t yours, she still is.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Sitting next to him saying nothing feels like taking off a corset. A great undoing, if you will, and he will. In every way.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Edith Whisker’s version of “Home” starts playing”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“And he’s all surprised that I know his face, but what he doesn’t know is that how he looks in the morning time is burned into my memory and one day, when all this is over and we’re not hooking up anymore and he’s with someone else and I’ve figured out how to move on and past him and we’re not together anymore55 because I don’t think he has room in his heart to see me like that when all he can see is her, even if sometimes now it feels like maybe56 he could—even then, I will see his face when I close my eyes.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“but I find myself slow-dancing with Christian Hemmes in a laundromat and there’s nothing normal”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“I kiss the corner of her mouth, walk out her door and then we don’t speak for ten months.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“It’s a hard thing about relationships, isn’t it? Doesn’t matter what type it is, if it’s worth keeping, sometimes you have to say shit you don’t want to, pry it out of your own mouth and toss it over a fence your mate’s building now because that’s what people do when you hurt them—build fences, raise walls, dig ditches, pitfalls, etc.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Because I hate her as much as I love her and I don’t know how to let her go, so I keep us all tangled up.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“But I don’t like it. I don’t like the idea that we’re born bad because if we’re all born sinners, I don’t know if we can ever really wash ourselves clean.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Trouble is, I reckon she’d let him. She’s always been a sucker for boys who look like the blonde one from Fast & Furious, and that’s this lad to a tee.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“The universe, actually, is ablaze. The planets lose track of their orbits, the birds are poets now and all the songs written before this and all the ones that'll come after this are about this moment”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“she was on fire, being burnt alive. I was the silver blanket she wrapped herself in.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“This is a £4000 shirt.” Smokeshow10 squints over at me. “Might have overpaid for that one, Dais.” “Oh, did I?” I glare at him. “Did I overpay for this Beatles ‘Butcher Cover’ Original Promo shirt from 1966?” I cock an eyebrow at him. “On eBay last week, I watched you buy a Hot Cheeto shaped like a gun for £560.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“And he's all surprised that I know his face, but what he doesn't know is that how he looks in the morning time is burned into my memory and one day, when all this is over and we're not jooking up anymore and he's with someone else and I've figured out how to move and past him and we're not together anymore because I don't think he has room in his heart to see me like that when all he can see is her, even if sometimes now it feels like maybe he could-even then, I will see his face when I close my eyes.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“No metaphors this time, no flowery euphemisms, no allegories about the planets and fucking ships in shores. Fuck the ships, I am adrift. Cut the rope, let me drown, if this is drowning, I'll do it - it's an okay way to go”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites