Pretty Wreck Quotes

“I love you, Lis.” He kissed me, deeply, crushingly, lovingly. But he didn’t stop there. “You are all the most beautiful substances in the universe brought out in human form.”
I melted, head tilted up, basking in his words like sunlight.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“How do you fight someone you still love when they are everything you still want?”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“We’ve all been fed love off knives.”
“No shit,” I muttered, and the rest said some variation of it in agreement. “But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to figure it out.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“The moment too perfect. I wanted to remember him just like this, and if it ended, I’d have the memory of his happiness burned into skin. And maybe that’s what life was all about. Holding on to the good moments, even when they ended. I wanted that. I wanted to be able to not hate him if he went back to his ways. I wanted that for myself. I just didn’t know how to get there.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“Fame is a scam and we’re all just prostitutes for the people. Selling our bodies and souls for a few dollars, while we give our privacy away for
free.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“Sorrow bled into his words, and I couldn’t help but think he wrote the way Kingsley did. It was just how his brain worked. Words came out in poetry. Perfect and precisely, pointed prose uttered to strangle hearts.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“When your entire life is formed in chaos, maybe mayhem feels like love and havoc like home.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck

“I loved him. He doesn’t love me. It’s as simple and complicated as that. I don’t really know what love looks like and I don’t think I’d know it if I found it. So it’s better not to look. But he is my kryptonite and something about him draws me in and doesn’t let go.”
― J.R. Gray, Pretty Wreck