Kid Quotes

“You can’t fix me,” she says immediately. “I don’t want to,” I say, wincing as I place both hands on the sides of her neck, my thumbs tracing her chin. I lick my lips, peering at hers, then back into her troubled eyes, the ones that scream out for me and me alone. “I want to break with you.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Today I want to drown in her. Sink down beneath her surface and fucking drown in everything that she is. I want her in my lungs, in my veins, in my soul. I need her to end me in all the ways imaginable so I can live in her dark, impenetrable hell.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I can make people stick. I’m like a big wad of gum. I’m sweet, fun to blow, and people tend to get stuck to me whether they like it or not.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’ll shatter myself into a million pieces just to meet your broken.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“My lips were on it first.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Maybe she does know my name. See? I’m gum. Blow me and you stick.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I stand here stunned for a moment. I think I just met the female version of myself. This is what I’d look like as a chick. I’m hot as fuck. I’m into me.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Even at our worst, both drowning in chaos, together, we’re our best.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“If sanity is the ability to act in a normal, rational manner, exhibiting reasonable behavior, then it’s more than obvious,” I say, before kissing the tip of her delicate nose. “I’m insane for you,” I whisper. “Completely and unavoidably insane.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“You were so unexpected. And yet, so necessary.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“It means you don’t have anyone waiting for you,” she says, her lips turned down in disappointment as her eyes finding mine again. “You deserve to have someone waiting for you.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’m ready to break for you,” she whispers, still gripping my hand between hers. “But are you willing to crack for me?” “Shatter,” I reply, pressing myself against her again, my hips pinning her to the van, my eyes cast down on hers as my hands hold her broken little face, making sure she knows the truth in the deepest part of her. “I’ll shatter myself into a million pieces just to meet your broken.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I love that I pushed and pushed, even though it made her uncomfortable, even though I chanced it. I knew she was under there, waiting with that hand held out, needing someone who understands and cares.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Imagine if we lived in a world when, after we died, the people who knew us stuffed and stood us up around the house, passing by our meat shells that hold nothing in them but lies of a life that once was.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’m just a shattered fool in love with a broken girl.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I grin lightly at her, loving that she can just pull herself out of her pain with ease, then look over at Hawke. He’s gazing at her with such adoration. One look, and I can tell they’re on the same wavelength. He knew what this day does to her, whether she’s willing to open up about it or not. Cole’s a strong girl. She internalizes a lot, but Hawke draws it out of her the way she needs. As weak as this makes me sound, I literally love the two of them together. They have such mutual respect and deep-rooted love for one another that seems to transcend. Fucking soulmates if I ever saw ‘em.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“She was right when she told me I never cared for myself. She told me if I put half the effort into myself as I did into pursuing her, I’d be in a great place. What she didn’t realize was that she was my reason for bettering myself. We all have our motivations, and she is the greatest one yet. Before her, I lived day to day, but after her, I’m living for the promise of tomorrow.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’m fucked up. Obsessive and wild. She’s insane. Savage and dangerous.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I never thought I’d be so lucky. To know someone who gets me like you do. Someone who accepts me; shows me it’s okay to love. Someone who can love me in my dark.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“She was trapped between needing something and being terrified of it ruining her.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’m not afraid of death anymore,” I admit, grabbing his hands and pulling them to my chest. His forehead wrinkles as he listens intently. “I don’t feel the need to alter time like I once did. I don’t want to bend it, speed it up, or slow it down...I just want to live it. With you.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“All of you,” I repeat. “Even the parts of you, you don’t love, Han. The parts you like to pretend don’t exist. But they’re always there. I just want the opportunity to love those parts, too.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I’m in love with you, Johanna.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“The only thing I want is to always be present in her space, in her time, in her vision.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I shouldn’t have left the only person who makes me want to stay.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“It reminds me of you. Raging with violent beauty, demanding to be seen amidst the chaos of the world beneath it.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“No one here can save anyone because no one here wants to be saved. We want to live in the danger and destruction around us because it’s the only thing that makes us feel alive.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“I fixate on changing the speed of time to reduce my anxiety about death.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“Black holes and minds aren’t meant for wandering,” she says, before grabbing me by the back of my neck and pulling me close to her lips. “You’ll never escape.” At this rate, I don’t think I’ll want to.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid

“She’s the gateway drug to a lifetime of addictions, not of this world. Her drug is the kind that you overdose on, knowing you’ll never be the same again after her. She enlightens in the way that you can only hope to hold on to the ignorance of not knowing her, because life after her will crush the deepest part of the soul you deny owning.”
― Jescie Hall, Kid