41 Quotes by Buddy Wakefield

Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

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

There is a point when tears don’t work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

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

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.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

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.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I’m gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You’ll make it up, the pain, you always do.