Vikki Wakefield Quotes & Sayings

#1. Forever chasing stars

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#2. Recollection hurt so much; I could barely remember my unbroken self

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#3. It takes time to believe again

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#4. Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

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#5. I wanted to live, to take the open road before me.

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#6. In the back of my mind I know that this is wrong and I have somewhere I need to be. Like laughing at a joke, then remembering that somebody died. Guilty pleasure.

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#7. Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say.

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#8. Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.

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#9. How nature made its most deadly creatures alluring precisely so they could lure their victims close.

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#10. But if I put the logistics aside and focused on what I knew - how I felt - it was hopeless. There was only resignation, and fear. Put the two together and you had a recipe for self-destruction.

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#11. She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.

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#12. They all count, even the wrong turns; they all add more to who you become. Nobody wants to be a one-way street. There are signposts if you cared to look.

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#13. I know that this is as close as I'll ever get. He's broken in ways I'm not.

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#14. And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.

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#15. Some things aren't meant for this world. They're too fragile, and life breaks them.

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#16. Life was short, and if it wasn't sweet you were in the wrong place with the wrong people

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#17. I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.

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#18. Wrong turns just added more to who you are. I didn't know that they also add to the toll you must pay to go back.

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#19. The way I see it, you have two options. Run, run like hell, or dive in

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#20. Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.

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#21. I'd missed it - the way the outback lit up in dying light. The stillness, the color. Out there, a quiet moment to yourself could feel like forever, but at the same time you were reminded that your entire life so far was barely a blink.

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#22. Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realize that your parent is complicated and fallible and human.

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#23. Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He'd been there.

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#24. Throw stones, make waves. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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#25. Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards

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#26. I'd heard or read somewhere that the ability to feel pain is the first thing to go. That's not true. The ability to care goes first.

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#27. We craved new beginnings

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#28. Moments like that, I thought maybe there was a God, a fickle puppet-master who decided it was time to remind us that life isn't just an echo of the Big Bang - that we're here, with beating hearts.

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#29. Whatever we'd had together, however brief and wrong, it had made me believe that it was possible to connect with another human being.

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#30. If I had known, would I have gone back sooner? If there was an audible reshuffle and click every time my path was altered, some Jumanji-like close-up of a game piece slotting into place, would it have changed our fate? It could have been that moment or a million before it; I'll never know.

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#31. A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift.

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#32. In our street everybody knows everybody's business. Someone will notice I rode up and walked down. Over fences and through keyholes, your business can pass like a Chinese whisper and beat you home, even if you're running.

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#33. Who, being love, is poor? Oscar Wilde

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#34. I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble halved but things like love and joy are multiplied when you have someone to share them with.

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