Best Buddy Wakefield Quotes

#1. I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list.

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#2. I'm no longer interested in watching you rise from the falls you keep taking in vain just for a reason to stand.

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#3. I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

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#4. And I know I'm not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.

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#5. I'm gonna roll outta here one day, I just might not get to drive

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#6. I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.

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#7. Let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body so it can see just how good you look when you're not compared to anything.

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#8. You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

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#9. Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

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#10. Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

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#11. Love makes no mistakes.

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#12. I should have told You
before talking in terms of Forever
that any given day wears me out and works me sour,
that there are nights when the sky is so clear
I stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for the stars to shoot at me
just so I can feel at Home.

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#13. In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin' bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin' else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it.

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#14. The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer

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#15. I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

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#16. If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

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#17. Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.

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#18. If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

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#19. What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.

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#20. I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

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#21. The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.

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#22. We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

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#23. If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

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#24. Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.

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#25. What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

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#26. You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

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#27. You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

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#28. I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.

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#29. I've seen fish hooked who keep more patience in their worst gill than some of you have in your best moods. If you were a sandwich at McDonalds, they'd call you the McGrump.

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#30. Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this.

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#31. This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.

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#32. Forte is French ... for blanket fort.

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#33. Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.

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#34. And if we really do get what we give,
then I give up,
so I can get up

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#35. We both spend our money on things that break too easily like ... people.

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#36. Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

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#37. You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

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#38. Everyone has some they can't contain.

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