Quotes from Amy Lane

Jai held out his hands in placation. "Yes, yes, you're very fierce. Hiss, kitten, hiss. And when you are done ruffling your fur, look through the car you are driving. I need a detonator.

By the time the guys left that night, I had a dresser, a coffee table, and a mattress that had been inflated by all of us because the little electric motor kept spazzing out. (One of us would get light-headed midblow and tap out.)

Not like that," Ellery whispered, rubbing Jackson's lip with his thumb now. "Like… like you were fading from us, transparent. Like you had given up your body, your life with me, because it was just too damned hard." "It was hard," Jackson admitted.

Mal kissed him, softly, barely keeping balance, and then pulled away. "If there's breath in my body, I'll stay." Tevyn nodded. "If there's breath in my body, I'll always fly down the mountain to you.

They'll be wonderful," Henry said with a faint smile. "They'll respect her decisions and tell her the truth as they know it and be kind when her heart's broken. It's really all she can ask for.

stolen kisses.

Poor Craw?" Ben retorted. "Poor Rory! Craw and Ari curse worse than a trucker shagging a sailor.

Parish told me… he said he would stay with me as long as he possibly could. Until God dragged him away by the heels, kicking and screaming the whole time.

Mr. Pantalone was rubbing the back of his neck like he was in pain. "It's like herding fish," he mumbled. "You want them to go one way, and then you're riding a mooncalf in the river.

Pulling away felt like ripping my own chest hair out. (Hair. Singular. I didn't delude myself.)

This house was made for family members to come inside and love each other.

I've been away so long. I promised I'd return, and I'm afraid… afraid the world's fallen apart around their ears without me. Is that strange?

Cheever started rocking back and forth, shaking, and Cambridge made an unhappy little sound. "Oh, son. Pain makes you selfish, did you not know that?

Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God's gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?

And he was kind. So damned kind. A man like me… a man like me did not take kindness for weakness. Kindness in the face of all the tiny knives the world had to throw at a body—that was real strength.

guess," he said thoughtfully. "I mean… it's not like… it's not like he's going to be anything other than Deacon, right?

In fact, I'm thinking you're my object lesson for who I don't want to let into my life.

Private Blood-loss

Cock Cheese?" Jackson had been busy with flying paperweights. Yikes—busy week! "Couldn't have happened to sweeter smegma.

Because people from Sacramento also were afraid of pretty much every type of weather—rain, snow, drought—it was all frightening

I wanna see it all. I wanna see bears and deer and elk and birds and eagles and hawks and fish. I wanna see a hawk catch a fish while dive-bombing a deer. I wanna feed one of my little sisters to something bigger'n me. It's gonna be like frickin' Christmas, and I want you to be there.

broken. "Please, God. Let him live." He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.

Nothing to be sorry about," Therese said crisply. "I'm sure she looked sane at the bar.

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