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Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Buddy Wakefield -
How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?
Buddy Wakefield
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But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.
Buddy Wakefield -
If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.
Buddy Wakefield -
The future gets no say in who we are.
Buddy Wakefield -
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.
Buddy Wakefield -
Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.
Buddy Wakefield -
Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.
Buddy Wakefield
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You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.
Buddy Wakefield -
We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.
Buddy Wakefield -
Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.
Buddy Wakefield -
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.
Buddy Wakefield -
Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.
Buddy Wakefield -
Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.
Buddy Wakefield
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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.
Buddy Wakefield -
We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.
Buddy Wakefield -
If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
Buddy Wakefield