Suki Fleet > Quotes

“...we are meant to be ephemeral, like the brilliant sparks from a fire shooting up into the dark, we are not meant to last, nothing lasts, one moment always follows another… the good, the bad, the awfully, fantastically ordinary… and in the looping darkness there’s only one thing left to hold on to….”
― Suki Fleet, This Is Not a Love Story

“With fire, broken glass could be heated and remade into something whole. Something still pure despite its initial shattered state.”
― Suki Fleet, The Glass House

“Later, we lie together in the half dark, no longer cold, no longer awkward. The torch is dimming as the wind billows against the fabric of the tent, noisy and heavy with spray from the sea, but nothing can touch us in here, no force of nature but time.”
― Suki Fleet, This Is Not a Love Story

“We hold eye contact until I start to feel dizzy from lack of oxygen. It’s so terrifyingly tender that my chest hurts. For the first time in my life, it’s as if someone sees me fully, seeing me and accepting everything that I am, inside and out. And I see him too — this scared, sweet boy, so vulnerable and emotionally wide open, who finds the world mostly terrifying but occasionally wonderful.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Who your brain decides your heart will somersault for seems to be completely fucking random. I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“We were glass. So fragile. All it took was a little knock and we would shatter.”
― Suki Fleet, The Glass House

“Because we are not brittle like glass, but more like the light that shines through it, bright and unending, without hierarchy or reason.
We are not sculptures, still and unyielding—we are alive and unfinished.
We are in love.
And it is enough”
― Suki Fleet, The Glass House

“I know space is supposed to make me feel small and insignificant, but somehow it doesn’t. What it makes me feel is special: I’m here, despite a million odds, in this moment, in this single point in time, with a boy I’m so completely in love with.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“The stuff you feel deeply about yourself isn’t stuff other people can change your mind about just by disagreeing with you.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“There is no way I can stop what I’m feeling, no going back from this, no shield in the entirety of the universe that can protect a heart from love. “It’s”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I'm glad he can't see the way my stomach flips over as I speak or hear the way my heart is beating out a crazy rhythm in my chest. Can't lifetimes be measured in heartbeats? The faster a heart goes, the less time you have? Maybe Micky is bad for my health.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I want to say it so badly, tell him that it’s been him from the beginning, but words are making me dizzy. “You have my heart,” I whisper instead. Instantly”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Fragile things, every single one of them. Lives are so terrifyingly easy to break. And yet, I love every single second. If I didn’t love it, it wouldn’t hurt so much. If it wasn’t so good, I wouldn’t be so terrified of losing it. I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I was sure he could see into the darkest places inside me and shine a light. He”
― Suki Fleet, Wildflowers

“Outside it’s snowing again—fairy-tale London, all cold and bright and glittering. Except I’m not sure how we find our happy endings out there. No knight is going to ride up on a white horse to save us. No prince or princess is strong or brave enough to stand up against evil. The sharks keep swimming. No one wants to get in the water with them.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I’m falling in love with you. His words echo louder and louder. They have so much power right now, they’re atomic. They’re inside me. Micky”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Micky is staring at the tablecloth so hard that I wonder if it’s going to come to life and wrap itself around him to protect him from having to answer any more questions. “I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Hold me tighter.” I do. If you asked me to, I would for always, I think. “Dashiel”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Arizona is beautiful. The sky is beautiful. But it isn’t what sets me alight. Micky is my fire, my sun, my sky, my world. With”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Life has teeth, all we can do is try not to get bitten. “It’s”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“He gives me that look, the one where his heart is laid out in his eyes and with one false move, I could break it. Vulnerable, that’s what the word is. He makes himself vulnerable to me. I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“It’s so easy to take life away, so much harder to live it, to make it big and bright and full of wonder. I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“being close with someone, loving them, feels like something basic and necessary, like eating or breathing. For”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“You’re beautiful, I write, while he’s still holding on to my hand. The words come out all spidery and crooked. You glitter like no one else. Like stars are inside you. I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Perhaps that’s all we need—small things to lift us above life’s ocean depths. My”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I’ve not been through the shit you’ve been through, Danny. No one I love has died. But I do know that having smooth, unscarred skin does not make you beautiful. Shining like the brightest light in the dark does, though. And you light up everything. You light me up. I’m falling in love with you,” he says simply.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“I think it must mean a lot that I can actually go to sleep with him, but we did a lot of not-sleeping last night too.     I’M”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“There is no way I can stop what I’m feeling, no going back from this, no shield in the entirety of the universe that can protect a heart from love.

“It’s okay,” I murmur into his hair. “It’ll be okay.”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“If this is a game, I like playing it with you,” he whispers. I frown at my feet. I’m not sure this game can still be a game if we’ve admitted to it. I’m not sure if the rules have changed. The stakes definitely have. “I”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes

“Loki’s not evil.” “Just misunderstood?” Micky smiles, eyebrow raised. My”
― Suki Fleet, Foxes