A. Wilding Wells > Quotes

“Fate’s funny like that, sticking her hand into places that at the time you want to curse her for—then, years later, you just want to nod and wink at her as you move into that sweet spot you’ve been hoping for all those years.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Mess of Reason:

“I want to kiss her like we're inventing the idea.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“You are proof alone that I can love.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“The fact that you’re asking if you can help yourself is disturbing. You can help yourself to my anything. Must I place my hands on your ass and push you up there myself?”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Mess of Reason:

“They say life can change in the blink of an eye. A chance meeting. A moment of bravery. Little things can alter one’s life arc, pushing and pulling us around like grains of sand under a wave.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“You give my thoughts a voice. You give my love a home.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“I’m gonna verbally wreck you…eat you out with my words and then, baby, you’re going to show me how wet I’ve made you, and just how much you liked it.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Mess of Reason:

“I’ll text my bounty hunter. But his nuts are so small, it’s going be like Horton Hears a Who to find them.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Mess of Reason:

“That unforgettable feeling that is rare and haunting. It’s the sort of thing you feel even when that person isn’t in your presence. Something that escalates and explodes like fireworks when they’re close enough to touch. And when you do touch, anywhere, a fingertip, the back of your hand brushing theirs, it comes to life. A heart-meeting-heart possibility.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“How is it some people are so comfortable in their own skin they feel content climbing under another person’s?”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“Love is priceless the way it barges in and takes over, wakes you up, then kicks you. The way it rips you apart then abandons you. The way it sits in your heart, sometimes lonely or when hopeful, giddy.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“It’s not about degrees, or bank account sizes, or what some might call success. It’s about kindness and happiness, a willingness to see others for what makes them happy. It’s about saying what you mean and meaning what you say.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, regardless of how you discover it or when.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“I am breathing. Only you. I am breathing you. You are my air—always have been. Crazy as that sounds, you always have been, Sloan. You.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Field Guide To Catching Crickets

“I’m falling, little bluebird, and nothing’s going to stop me.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“And why did he not want me like you seem to?” “Maybe you were meant to be mine all along.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“Promises can hide in lies the way they can in truths, but tonight, under this sky and with this man, I’m going to believe in my gut and trust, because right now, all I want is him and his kisses and the beautiful feeling inside me.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“I don’t want to let you down.” My hands shake when I think about it. “Then don’t.” “What if I’m not who you think I am?” “And what if you are?”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Field Guide To Catching Crickets

“Not sure I deserve a girl like you, so imperfectly perfect, so filled with life and goodness. And while I may not deserve you, it’s not going to stop me from being audacious enough to take you and selfish enough to keep you. You make me do the little things. Smile, breathe easier, see what’s in front of me, ignore what’s behind me. You give answers to my questions, light to my darkness. You give my thoughts a voice. You give my love a home. At the end of the day, I just want to know that we’ve tasted all of life together. The bitter, the sweet, and the let’s-spice-things-up-a-little-bit. I hope you see what I see: you loving me forever.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“I knew all along that, if the two of us ever got to this point, we’d be a cyclone. A full immersion of passion meets lust wrapped in a magnitude of infinite emotion. I’ve never been with someone who makes me feel as if their entire being is entwined with mine. I catch myself holding my breath, and then I gasp as we connect. Our pulses match, our heartbeats racing as our nearly silent dance of desire takes us to a new plane.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“There he is—Balthazar. Shirt off, muscles tan and buttered in sunlight, jeans slung low. He looks like the sort of guy who makes midnight conversations turn into morning pancakes.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“No one should have to work for love. Don't we all deserve it freely? Or does it come at a cost?”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“Listen, love. We can’t decide how others are going to treat us or feel about us, but we can certainly decide how we’re going to deal with what they toss our way.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“You’re all over me. Inside and out. When I run, I feel your breath filling my lungs. When I bathe, it’s your hands washing me, soft and wandering. When I cry, my tears are about you, us, and how I want you, need you, love you. Still. “And, when I come, it’s your face I see, your voice I hear, your name falling off my lips. It’s you. It’s only ever been you.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Field Guide To Catching Crickets

“How I could shove her against the wall and kiss her the way she looks like she deserves. Endlessly and with passion.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“She’s a contest I have no rules for but need to win; she’s a mountain to climb with whatever equipment I can dig up inside me; she’s a test worth taking even though I have no idea what sorts of questions I’ll discover. Somewhere inside Sloan, beyond the miles of upheaval and confusion she’s wrestling with, sits a beautiful soul at ease.”
― A. Wilding Wells, A Field Guide To Catching Crickets

“Some vibes don’t need words.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“You give my thoughts a voice. You give my name a love.”
― A. Wilding Wells, How To Tame Beasts And Other Wild Things

“You’re so many things. Bright and bewitching. Charming and gleefully unaware of it. Wonderfully weird like only the best of the best could ever be. Scared, possibly more than anyone I’ve met in my life. And you are lucky. Lucky that things have broken you beautifully. It’s important to look at the ugly things in life as exquisite gifts, which will give you wisdom eternally. Things that seem impossible to appreciate now. It’s not a curse that you’ve seen the underside of life. It’s a blessing.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds

“I don’t want to be a regret. I want to be a choice. I want to be the man you want something with, and not just something. Everything.”
― A. Wilding Wells, Of Winged Creatures & Nesting Grounds