Buddy Wakefield Quotes

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.

I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.

We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.

...others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice.

Forte is French… for blanket fort.

You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.

We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

Love makes no mistakes.

It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.