Tracey Ward > Quotes

“Money doesn’t make you a good person.”
― Tracey Ward, Knockout

“He’s right and I’m pissed. I’m mad because I’m no longer a Jawbreaker. I’m more of a Gummy Bear or a friggin’ Laffy Taffy.”
― Tracey Ward, Backs Against the Wall

“But the world does not depend on my understanding to keep its momentum, so fate carried on as it pleased.”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“I’m a girl stuck in Neverland with The Lost Boys. I’m no Wendy, I can hold my own. I don’t need to wait around for Peter”
― Tracey Ward, Writing on the Wall

“But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low rooftops on the surrounding buildings. It's a long drop to every one of them. But is it too long? How would a person know unless they tried?
I take several steps back from the edge, bouncing on the balls of my feet. Then I crouch.
"Or are you a motherfucking Tinkerbell?”
― Tracey Ward, Writing on the Wall

“First, we’re not the same size. And second, no.” She glared at me. “What’s wrong with my dress?” “Technically, it’s dad’s dress.” “White isn’t his color,” mom disagreed. “He’s an autumn.”
― Tracey Ward, Knockout

“We would get lost sometimes because everybody does. But that’s why you travel with the people you love. Because no matter how far off course you get, they’re always there to guide you home. They’re your lighthouse on the shore. Your star in the evening sky. Your True North.”
― Tracey Ward, Knockout

“Find cute shoes in a size 11, I dare you. Find a size 11 in women’s at all!”
― Tracey Ward, Knockout

“It’s amazing how inspirational posters and “soothing” music can make you want to punch yourself in the face.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“Breanne is a sweet girl but she is simple. She would find the layers of an onion confusing.”
― Tracey Ward, Writing on the Wall

“Going off your meds is like removing your parachute and making the jump anyway. You can’t fly, you never could, and you just left behind the one thing that got you home safely.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“I will not leave you. Not for anything. Not for your good, not for mine. We are in this together till the end. I promise you that.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“I reluctantly pull out my knife as I silently close the distance between myself, animal and idiot. From a distance I thought the wolf was pretty but up close it’s beautiful. It makes me even angrier that I have to do this. There’s not much beauty left in the world, I’d rather leave it when I can find it. Like walking around a flower somehow blooming in the broken pavement of a desolate road.”
― Tracey Ward, Writing on the Wall

“Then stay. I’ll protect you.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“It's what I told him. You and Kellen have been dancing around each other for years. Pull the trigger or put down the gun, but it's time to make a decision."
"What did he say to that?"
Dad picked up his beer, a faint smile on his lips as he pressed the bottle to them.
"Bang, bang.”
― Tracey Ward, Knockout

“I find it ironic that the very thing supposedly keeping insanity at bay is the same thing that Albert Einstein defined to be insanity.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“Just because someone else is more batshit than you, it doesn’t make you sane.”
― Tracey Ward, Brawler

“Spoken like a fortune cookie from Frodo’s kitchen.”
― Tracey Ward, Writing on the Wall

“They’re playing a game I taught Anna years ago. One she loved and laughed hysterically at, her face dirty with dirt from the ground. She was beautiful even then, even as a child. I loved her from the start, but when I saw her in my home, in my village, wearing that simple green dress like she was born to it, that’s when I knew I was in love with her. That I’d do anything for her. “What’s”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“I know now that stars are hot balls of angry fire and gas that are far more likely to drop from the sky and crush you before bestowing wishes upon you. Waste none of your efforts on them.”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“My mom uses my full name when I’m in trouble. The same way people use your full name when they talk about you. Not like you’re in trouble, but like you are trouble.”
― Tracey Ward, Lawless

“I stare into his blue, blue eyes, so bright and earnest, and I almost tell him. I almost tell him to run from me because I have so much baggage I will weigh us both down six feet into the ground if he doesn’t get away.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“We’re all idiots when it comes to love,” Trent says philosophically. I glance back at him, surprised. He smiles at me with is creepy, real boy smile on his Pinocchio face.”
― Tracey Ward, Backs Against the Wall

“Five years later I turned thirteen. It was due in equal measure to sheer strength of will and the turning of the Earth around the sun. I was desperate to be older, dying to be a grown woman. Of course by the time I truly was grown I would wonder what the rush had been about. For”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“I have an overwhelming feeling that there’s so much to do and no time to do it. My head and my heart and my body are all talking at once and I can’t make out a word of it.”
― Tracey Ward, Tearing Down the Wall

“It's such a simple thing.... What she needs is exactly what I need -- someone to have her back until the bitter end.”
― Tracey Ward, In the End

“You can’t control what you feel, only what you present to the world and standing there alone at the edge of my universe, I let my sorrow show.”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“Because evil waits outside our door.”
― Tracey Ward, Until the End

“He was like a rainbow; rare and enchanting, exciting to stumble on, but when it was gone I didn’t waste a moment of thought on it.”
― Tracey Ward, Dissever

“She’s eight months along, big as a house, and not sleeping well: the three main ingredients to Bitch Stew.”
― Tracey Ward, This is the Wonder