30 Quotes by Vikki Wakefield

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.

Beginnings were always exciting.

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.

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

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

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

I never would have believed I could kiss a boy that way. I thought there were only two types of kissing: the passionate, rip your clothes off kind, and the dry, chaste peck you gave an elderly person because it was expected. But there was another kind of kiss. The kind that sealed a moment in a time capsule, forever: a small moment that branded my soul.

We need our monsters to know what it is to be human.

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