J.J. Wright > Quotes

“Aaron Warner doesn’t like cussing so neither do I,”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“His eyes finally meet mine and they bore through my entire existence. I feel naked. Like I'm sitting here in the middle of the public library, without a stitch of clothing. Like every question has removed another layer and I'm just sinew, muscle, bone, and marrow, laid bare in front of him.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“No. It’s your fault. And I’m leaving now. Don’t try to find me. If you do, my boyfriend will kill you. Tory has a clip with your name on it, and he will not hesitate to empty it into your skull. All I have to do is say the word.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Watching Tory is like watching poetry on ice. He moves with graceful precision that maintains a certain level of brutality.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“But he is mine. Not mine in the true, real sense of the word. Mine in the purely delusional sense.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“She thinks she's not the prettiest girl in school. I think that's pretty stupid.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“I find myself looking for you even though you've devastated me…because you've always been my source of comfort, not the source of my pain.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“He's rugged, yet angelic. Poetic, yet blasphemous. Unkempt, yet meticulous.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Tory is so beautiful that it violently smacks you in the face every single time you look at him. The kind of beautiful that makes people squirm with discomfort.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Love can be icy. Love can be a warm whisper. Sometimes it is both simultaneously.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“I love you, Clara. From the moment you were tackled in flag football, I have loved you. Maybe not love in the true and adult sense. But at every stage of life, I have loved you in the capacity I was able to at the time. My love was far more innocent back then. It’s much more nefarious and selfish and consuming now. Please love me back.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“She draws roses on thorny vines and hearts that don't know what's good for them.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“I picked you.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Cinnamon everything. Everywhere. Why? Spill one of your big secrets, pretty boy. You’re so pretty, so pretty, Tory. It’s so annoying.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Hockey means nothing if I lose her. There is absolutely nothing—no amount of money, no threat, no sport, no level of success—that is worth losing her over.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Looking at Tory is like looking at the sun. Life-giving, yet utterly destructive.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts