Becky Wicks > Quotes

“A guy and a girl can just be friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“You’re his normality. You’re a part of him, and he is a part of you. That’s what makes this frightening, but that’s what makes it right.”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“I want to hear one more of your stories
Tangle up in your dreams, give up the fight
‘Pour one more glass of that wine
And I might not go home tonight...”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that.”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“In that moment he was everything I had and could never lose; my sun, my moon, my star, a rock, a chest in which I could store every single secret and trust implicitly with the key.” - Chloe”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“Every song has a hundred haunting words in it and only I can really read between the lines. I used to love it, but these days every one is like a torturous serenade, mocking me every time.”
― Becky Wicks

“She really liked you, Noah,'
'Yeah, well, maybe I'm just an asshole.'
I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You're not an asshole I'm thinking, but for some reason I can't say it. It would be like admitting something else; like the fact that he's an asshole to every girl who likes him, but never to me. And then I'd have to really think about why that is and that's not something I'll ever be comfortable with at all, even though his eyes are like maps and his words are like anchors and his songs are like personal messages and I love all that.
- Chloe”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Famous

“She spent more than an hour in the window, working silently, determined, clicking the camera over and over. Something about her was mesmerizing. I watched her from the bed and wrote a song in my head about how she lit up every time the lightning struck, and when she climbed in beside me she was wriggling under my skin as much as the covers. Chloe became the lightning then, for me at least, lighting up every room. And so began the storm in my head. - Noah”
― Becky Wicks

“As Rosa rolled the hard boiled egg across my forehead I wasn’t as disturbed as you might think, even though I was sitting on a plastic table in a five star hotel bathroom in my underwear, being chattered at in Spanish by a lady I’d met only the day before in the herb and flower market. The truth is, I’ve probably done stranger things in hotel bathrooms.”
― Becky Wicks, Latinalicious: The South America Diaries

“Joshua smiles, runs his finger round the rim of the coconut. ‘Some people are summer, and some people are winter,’ he says softly after a moment, but I’m just looking at the ocean now, trying not to fall.”
― Becky Wicks, Before He Was Gone

“One guy, one girl. One in the spotlight. One in the shadows.”
― Becky Wicks, Our Frozen Wings

“can blind us.”
― Becky Wicks, Our Frozen Wings