Wesley King > Quotes

“I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“It's funny to be a prisoner of yourself. Like you're being bullied by your own mind and you're afraid of it, but it's also you and it's extremely confusing.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“And I'm here too. You're weird and moody and maybe a little crazy, but you're also the most interesting person I've ever met. Trust me, you are special. And from now on, maybe you should stop trying so hard to be alone.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“I was trying, but was it enough? I felt like I was adding glue, just a little at a time, enough to fix the cracks but never be truly fixed.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I had spent all that time wishing I could magically get better, when I just had to make things better for myself. I had to stop trying to be something I wasn't. I had to stop hating myself and thinking about all the ways I was wrong. I had to stop calling myself Psycho Sara.

My name was Sara Malvern, and I wasn't very normal at all.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“Friends are important. You spend a lot of time with them. But you spend way more time with yourself. If keeping a friend means doing something that makes you not like yourself, then it's a bad idea.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“If you want to be someone else at the end of this, then you will be disappointed.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I'm sorry. I don't like myself. Not like this. I won't. Ever."
"He nodded. Then we had better find a reason to start.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Sometimes I get the team Gatorade—actually, I carefully arrange the cups into perfect geometric patterns to simplify drinking and reduce potential spillage—but that’s the only fun part.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“Do me one last favor before you go. Go look in your eyes. Do you see the yellow rings around your pupils? I always think of a star emerging from the darkness. Maybe a supernova.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I did think of James still. A lot. I wondered if he would show up again. But I knew he wouldn't. I guess hope had to be used selectively too. I couldn't use it all up on one boy.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“We are proud of you, Princess."

"For what?"

"For doing this group therapy. For making a friend."

"I think making a friend is pretty commonplace."

"For some. But we all get to set our own goalposts.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Sighing, I trotted out onto the field and took up position on the special teams unit. Max saw me and hurried over, looking alarmed. “You’re playing?” “Theoretically.” He patted my arm. “Go get ’em.” “Right.” I looked at the opposing line. Taj was there, eyeing me like I was a piece of beef jerky. Our returner, a superfast, stocky kid named Pete, was waiting at the far end of the field. I just had to run around the line, get down there, and tackle him. No problem. I fidgeted nervously, waiting for the snap. I missed the bench already. “Hut!” the punter shouted, and our long snapper tossed it back to him. I took the long way around the line, just missing an arm bar from Taj. I really wasn’t very fast, but I wasn’t slow either. I made it around the defensive line and started for Pete, who was already”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“The problem is if you avoid everybody, how are you supposed to know if they're any good or not? My mother and father died. But I won't ignore people because they might die. Then I would be very lonely. You can't avoid people because you think they might hurt you. You'll never know unless you take the chance and find out.”
― Wesley King, A World Below

“Mr.Baker was always cheery. He often dressed in checkered cardigans--red and blue, usually--wore oversized, almost cartoonist, how ties, and had a pair of thick-framed black glasses that sat perched stop his very large nose. He was constantly touching and adjusting them as he looked around, as if they were a set of binoculars that he used to zoom in on his students.”
― Wesley King, A World Below

“I don't know. I was just calling it that in my head all along, and so I programmed that name into the processor. What do you think?"
"It's stupid," Lourdvang rumbled.”
― Wesley King, Dragons vs. Drones

“You could eat me. I'm terrified of you.”
― Wesley King, The Vindico

“Hello, Daniel.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“When you spend most of your life being silent to protect yourself and then the first boy to come along makes your heart hurt, then you could probably be forgiven for being rash. Maybe it was a mistake to give up on his so easily. I don't know. But Erin told me I was special, and I guess I wanted all my friends to think that.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“The point is this: I have issues. But that's my thing. I'm working on it. Nobody else gets to tell me what I am.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Mr. Baker was standing at the open door, looking absolutely and expectedly ridiculous in an explorer's cap and matching leather satchel over one shoulder, along with some beige cargo pants hiked way up with suspenders and knee-high black rubber boots. He looked like he was setting out to look for King Kong in the new world.”
― Wesley King, A World Below

“Sometimes I hear people say, 'It must be hard to be crazy.' And it is. But they should also say 'It must be hard to love someone who is crazy.' They have to see the pain, but never hear the whispers.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal