Haley Warren > Quotes

“But it’s not carrying a heavy thing, to know you.”
― Haley Warren, Near Miss

“Why do you call her Ten? I thought you said your name was November?” “Just look at her.” Ethan offers with a shrug, taking a sip of his beer.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November

“But no one notices, because I’ve been smiling while I carried a mountain for them for years.”
― Haley Warren, Near Miss

“They’re small gestures he makes. Just tiny little things he does to show me that he sees me. Small, little things. Miniscule in the grand scheme of the universe, but they feel infinite.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November

“So she told me things, tried to make me understand myself. See me in the way only she saw me. That I wasn’t weird, my child brain had just formed weird connections, because it was starved for love.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November

“I meant what I said. Got a new dream. Feels like it might just be within reach right now. But before I lay you down, show you how perfect you are and how dumb whoever that loser was that slept with someone over you, you need to promise me. You’re coming with me. You’re moving forward with me. We can stay on this dumb quest, we can try the food, I don’t care, but she doesn’t run your life anymore.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November

“If you could be anything, what would you be?” “A faerie princess.”
― Haley Warren, Near Miss

“I thought there was only one person who understood me. Saw me. Knew all the sharp pieces of my edges and the way to soften them. But maybe they were never supposed to be soft. Maybe that’s just who I am, and who I’ve always been. Maybe the sharp edges of me could fit within someone else’s.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November

“But if someone was going to etch a date of birth on my tombstone, I’d ask them to get it right down to the very millisecond she whispered those words out into the world. I love you.”
― Haley Warren, Near Miss

“I think Ethan Barclay put the stars in my sky. He certainly hung the moon, and I think he’s all the oxygenated blood in my body.”
― Haley Warren, Life in November