Quotes from Amy Lane

The song of their love was like Seth's music. It would forever make the angels cry.

Years later, when their lives had turned out very differently, Mackey would remember that moment, the freedom at his face and the safety at his back, and it would be the diamond in his mind, the one clear moment that taught him what love was all about. Even if the diamond was flawed, it was the first diamond he'd ever grasped

On second thought, there was no gift big enough for Mike. Maybe a house. Maybe buy Jackson's duplex from Jackson and just give it, carte blanche, to Mike. These were hard truths—terrible, painful truths. From Ellery they'd sound petty and self-serving.

He wanted that with some foreplay and a lot of afterglow, and maybe some, "Gee, Crawford, you are a nice guy, and I'd really like to do this frequently, if you don't mind me saying so.

called you fat because I knew other lovers had done so, and it was easy to drive you away. I didn't believe it. I've never believed it. I've never even thought it. Everything else I said, it was to push you away. I know you know that—but you need to believe it. I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.

This was a problem when he hit the pothole in the shitty road, broke the axle, and got thrown headfirst into the windshield at twenty-five miles an hour.

THE BEST relationships are made of quiet times,

All his family was happy, and he could finally relax enough to go into A-fib.

His heart felt like an aging cardboard box in the rain. Only the memory of what he was supposed to be held him up.

What have I ever done to you…." There it went, two octaves, and he wrenched it back under his control. "What have I ever done to you that you would hurt me like that?

using the works to balance his way into the arrivals wing so he could check in.

Man, I think if teachers knew that, they'd be asking all the scrappy kids at school if they were gay, just to get it out there and stop having to bandage up the poor Mormon kids who didn't see it coming!

Good. Because I trust you. Besides. You know my family. They'll fucking kill you.

you don't have to be a saint to want to be treated like a human being, do you know that? Yes, I know he's an addict. So the hell what? You don't write him off because of it. You don't write me off because I care for him. We're people, that's all. Miserable, stupid, fucked-up people, and all we have in this world to hold on to is each other. Can you understand that?

But all in all, it's no big deal—you came out at a funeral, I came out in court, and together, we're town legend. Go us.

But that was okay, because Grant laughed too and met Mackey's eyes in a moment of understanding for just the both of them. He'd hurt too.

Suddenly Mackey knew—they'd both been hurt. The only thing that had put the hurt to an end for Grant had been the end itself. Mackey had been

But maybe cotton candy dreams show a person where the bones of real dreams may lie. Maybe

You involved me in a kinky threesome before coffee," he said, hating everybody. "I regret nothing.

Oh, for fuck's sake. The Chevy Matiz—whose idea was it? Four doors, shaped like a shoe, and all the reliability of his grandmother's digestive tract. Whether she'd been constipated or had the runs, it was always ugly, and her mood had been to match.

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

How was it this kid walked this earth like he was a part of it, and Jeremy had only ever felt like a flea on its back? There had to be a flaw, Jeremy

Okay, we know that you are all at the age when your peers start to ask certain questions, and in this town, everybody is going to make certain assumptions about us politically, but we need you to know something.

The three S's: shower, shit, and shave—every man could do that in his sleep.