Real Like Daydreams Quotes

“You have no idea how much I wish that too. If I could cut open my brain and show you what I feel for you, how I think of you—well, you’d probably be scared. But you wouldn’t question my motives. All of it has always been you. You deserve everything good and real—” “Were we even real, Jules? Can something based on a lie be real? Or were we just something I daydreamed? I don’t even know the answer to that, and I’d been so sure two days ago. It sucks that I’m doubting my own mind.” “We are real, Sera. I don’t get why you chose me, but you did, and I chose you the second I spotted you at that party. I’m going to keep being here for you until you get that. Until you understand I love you in a way that’s not going to go away. If you still want nothing to do with me, I’ll let you go, but not before you see there’s nothing pretend or fake about how completely devoted I am to everything about you.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“I love you, Seraphina. I don’t know when it happened, but it was swift and complete when it did. I’m not telling you this as a way to excuse my dishonesty, but you asked why, and there it is. I love you, and there was no way I could stand by while you grieved your grandmother alone.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“Jules, are you okay?” “I’m fine.” Sera wrapped her fingers around my bicep. “Are you sure? You don’t—” “I’m fine, Sera. Leave it.” The bones in my knee rubbed together the faster I walked down the sidewalk, sucking away what little air I had left in my lungs. I needed to be in my room, silent and dark. If I could just get there, clear this panic out of my system, I’d be good. “Julien, I’m worried. You can talk to me. Tell me what’s going on and I—” When I snapped, I wasn’t in the driver’s seat anymore. Fuck, I loved Sera’s voice, but in this moment, when I wasn’t sure I wanted to take another step, let alone wake up in the morning, I couldn’t take it. Her concern for me was like an ice pick in my ear. “Holy shit, can you not hear me? I said I’m fine. That means you need to stop asking. Preferably—stop speaking altogether. I’m not your fucking boyfriend or your sad little project. You keep pecking and pecking at me, and I’m going out of my mind. Leave me the hell alone. Just… God, can’t you see I don’t want you around me? Can’t you see that?” She shoved away from me. And when our connection was shattered, she shoved me again. I fell back a step, then another, barely catching myself from falling on my ass. “What is wrong with you?” she cried. “Why would you—?”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“He raised his head slightly, peering at me over his hands. “Are you torturing me because I saw you naked? Is that what this is? I’m being punished for those three seconds of bliss? I don’t see how that’s fair.” Bliss. He called seeing me almost naked bliss. It was probably a figure of speech or whatever, but as a girl in dire need of flattery, I was taking that word and tucking it away for later.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“I’m half titanium now. They had to rebuild my face and the left side of my lower body. I had a shattered pelvis, broken femur—” He went on, listing the injuries to his leg and pelvis. The placement of rods and screws the doctors had used to put him back together. My chest ached as he spoke robotically about his surgeries and the initial recovery process. Maybe that was the only way he could talk about it. It was so much. Too much.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“Seth scoffed. “The hell it doesn’t. It takes two people to break up a relationship. I never agreed we were done. I gave you space, but that space wasn’t for you to go out and fuck around. That was for you to get over your issues and come back to me so I can show you how sorry I am I messed up. You walking around campus with another guy, even if he’s all screwed up and shit, does not fly with me.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“When he sat down, Julien leaned over, brushing my hair aside to speak low into my ear. His warm breath on my skin sent little tremors down my spine. “What the fuck was that?” I turned slightly, my cheek almost pressed to his. “That’s the girl. Seth’s bestie.” “The one he cheated with?” “Mmmhmm.” He breathed a laugh. “And she’s telling you he won’t be happy you’re moving on? What kind of fucked-up relationship do those two have?”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“What do you take me for, Julien? If I were to stab someone, I’d make sure they were looking me in the eyes as life fled their body.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams

“Daydreams of pillows, cozy beds, and my smut-filled Kindle. Yes, sir, thank you, sir.”
― Julia Wolf, Real Like Daydreams