“...sometimes relationships don't die. They just don't grow. Kept from sunlight, from nourishment, they never flourish.”
―
Emily Wibberley,
The Roughest Draft
“We've written the rough draft of our love together, the draft with loose ends, unfinished edges, mistakes every other page. But every writer knows there's magic in revision, where your work changes from a manuscript into a book. Where intentions, emotions, missed connections coalesce into something complete. It's where what you mean to say becomes what you have said. The characters deepen, the details shine, the prose sparkles. Suddenly, from nothing, you find your story.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Never leaving someone isn't the same as loving them.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“She smiles, and my heart ignites.” ― Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Reading and loving books are the fingerprints of who I am—no matter how much I change, they'll stay the same, betraying me to myself for the rest of my life.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“...in the end, the best part of a love story isn't having it. It's getting to keep writing.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Honestly, I think every single word I’ve written since the day I met you has in some way been leading up to this. To you. To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing—you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I’m half of everything and greater for it.I’m in love with you. I know we can’t be together. Not yet. But if you tell me you feel even remotely the same way, then we will. Maybe you’ve never considered it, but I find it hard to believe that my feelings, screaming in my head night and day, leaking into my writing with a vulnerability that would embarrass me if your eyes weren’t the ones reading them, sound only like a whisper to you.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“think it’s possible for people we love to quietly, even unknowingly, snap some tether holding us together.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Of course I love him. I have novel's worth of what I want to say.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“But with Katrina—was it romantic when you instinctively knew someone’s very existence fascinated you, made you grateful? Finding it romantic would be missing the point, like valuing the sun because it was bright. I’m glad for the light, but really, I’m grateful for the fact it sustains life on Earth. Not that Katrina sustains my life on Earth. I— No. Inelegant metaphor. It’s over with Katrina.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I want to say she's gorgeous. Heart-stopping. If I started, I don't know how I would stop. I've worked my entire adult life to marshal the English language into whatever I wanted. But were I try to capture Katrina with it, it would best even me.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I would risk dying of thirst to save myself from drowning.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Rosaline could be the central character of her own story. Just because Romeo didn’t want her doesn’t mean no one else will.” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
“Today isn’t your entire life. Today is one day of your job. Do your job the best you can, then do the next thing. Okay?” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“As long as you allow yourself to feel everything with such devastating magnitude, you will be unable to perform your duty.” ― Emily Wibberley, Sacrificed
“It’s funny how people can sit side by side, separate whirlwinds each self-contained.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I know the truth can hurt, even when you need to hear it.” ― Emily Wibberley, If I'm Being Honest
“You can’t expect anything to happen if you don’t make a move.” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
“I’m beginning to feel like whatever happens to my relationships, my negativity can’t be helping. What if they don’t give up on me—what if I give up on them?” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
“We've written the rough draft of our love together, the draft with loose ends, unfinished edges, mistakes every other page. But every writer knows there's magic in revision, where your work changes from a manuscript into a book. Where intentions, emotions, missed connections coalesce into something complete. It's where what you mean to say becomes what you have said. The characters deepen, the details shine, the prose sparkles. Suddenly, from nothing, you find your story.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Never leaving someone isn't the same as loving them.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“She smiles, and my heart ignites.” ― Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Reading and loving books are the fingerprints of who I am—no matter how much I change, they'll stay the same, betraying me to myself for the rest of my life.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“...in the end, the best part of a love story isn't having it. It's getting to keep writing.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Honestly, I think every single word I’ve written since the day I met you has in some way been leading up to this. To you. To say you changed my life is the kind of understatement I could never permit myself to put in writing—you changed my entire world. You reached inside me with your words and your stories and wrote yourself onto my own soul. Before you, I was whole. I was one being, one heart. Now, I’m half of everything and greater for it.I’m in love with you. I know we can’t be together. Not yet. But if you tell me you feel even remotely the same way, then we will. Maybe you’ve never considered it, but I find it hard to believe that my feelings, screaming in my head night and day, leaking into my writing with a vulnerability that would embarrass me if your eyes weren’t the ones reading them, sound only like a whisper to you.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“think it’s possible for people we love to quietly, even unknowingly, snap some tether holding us together.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“Of course I love him. I have novel's worth of what I want to say.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“But with Katrina—was it romantic when you instinctively knew someone’s very existence fascinated you, made you grateful? Finding it romantic would be missing the point, like valuing the sun because it was bright. I’m glad for the light, but really, I’m grateful for the fact it sustains life on Earth. Not that Katrina sustains my life on Earth. I— No. Inelegant metaphor. It’s over with Katrina.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I want to say she's gorgeous. Heart-stopping. If I started, I don't know how I would stop. I've worked my entire adult life to marshal the English language into whatever I wanted. But were I try to capture Katrina with it, it would best even me.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I would risk dying of thirst to save myself from drowning.” ― Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft
“Rosaline could be the central character of her own story. Just because Romeo didn’t want her doesn’t mean no one else will.” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
“Today isn’t your entire life. Today is one day of your job. Do your job the best you can, then do the next thing. Okay?” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“As long as you allow yourself to feel everything with such devastating magnitude, you will be unable to perform your duty.” ― Emily Wibberley, Sacrificed
“It’s funny how people can sit side by side, separate whirlwinds each self-contained.” ― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft
“I know the truth can hurt, even when you need to hear it.” ― Emily Wibberley, If I'm Being Honest
“You can’t expect anything to happen if you don’t make a move.” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
“I’m beginning to feel like whatever happens to my relationships, my negativity can’t be helping. What if they don’t give up on me—what if I give up on them?” ― Emily Wibberley, Always Never Yours
