The Horizon Quotes

“Certainly seems it when she half-turns in his arms and he just leans right down into her and kisses and kisses. Oh, how syrupy-slow his kisses are. She could live in those warm, wet pulls.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“There’s just the memory of that time he walked in on her while she was dressing, and afterward couldn’t string a sentence together.

And not only that, but she hadn’t even made fun of him for it. She hadn’t! Oh no, why not? Also…had the sight of her boobs possibly sort of made him fall in love with her? It had to be the boobs.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“I love you, Quade,” she says, once the kiss is done and with his warmth still in her. “Always have.”

“See, I knew—”

She cracks him one on the arm before he can finish. It can’t always be kisses and dancing, after all. Sometimes you’ve got to keep things zesty. Sharp. Tough, like love is. She’s pretty sure her love for him is tough all right.

It let her run to him, after all.

“Okay, maybe I didn’t know. But I knew this much—I’ve loved you since the first day you punched me in the face. And I’ll love you ’til the last.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“You don’t really have idea about any of that olden-days stuff, do you?”

He’s sure he can feel her smiling against his shoulder.

“Busted,” she says.

“Ah, it’s some nice talk, though, Sol. You make it all sound real nice.”

“That’s the beauty of it. Just dreaming thoughts on once-was things. Animals and helping people and one place you could always call home.”

“The Horizon is my home,” he says, and it strikes him for the first time how much that is true. A sudden keen longing for its shapes and spaces goes through him, and he hugs Sol to him tighter.

“You are my home,” she says, real sudden. So sudden he’s sure she’s about to take it back any second—or at least wants to.

But no taking back comes. He clings to the words so tightly he doesn’t think she could take them back even if she tried. Oh Sol, he thinks. God, please don’t let us die now. Not now.

Not now that he realizes The Horizon isn’t his home at all. That he thinks like her. That she is his home, too.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“Sol? As much as I appreciate you making me this lovely womanly blanket…you think we could try lying like normal people who don’t want to merge into one being?”

“Can’t have that. We’d make one gross merged being. Your ass and my ass together? The universe would run in terror.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“What does it matter?” she asks, and though his answer likely should take a thousand years to come, he gets it out quicker than a snap of the fingers.

“Because I love you!” he says. “Because I’m in love with you, God help me.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon

“Their legs tangle together real easy. His hand goes over hers, fingers interlacing. So natural, too, as though they’d never said a harsh word to one another in their lives.”
― Charlotte Stein, The Horizon