The Locker Room Quotes

“....and his head and shoulders were on the bed next to the boy who had captured his heart like cupped hands would capture a butterfly, and had never, ever clutched him too tight and never let him go.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“...if I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“Because it’s you and basketball, Christian. Only one of you can break my heart.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“You’re my friend,” Chris whispered back, and his other hand came up so he could rub Xander’s lower lip with his thumb. “That makes you beautiful.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“The whole world heard you tell poor Angie Robinson that “Chris Edwards was your heart”—man, it’s one of the most fucking romantic things I’ve ever heard.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“They made love until Chris had to leave for the airport, without sleeping at all. After Chris had left, wearing wrinkled jeans and Xander’s sweat and seed on his skin, Xander flopped back onto the bed and looked miserably at the clock.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“If I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful for you.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“You're not even looking at the view, Xan."

"I'm looking at all I need to.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“I played this game for myself. Its all you've ever wanted me to do, and I did. And playing for me means you. It means you, and me, and the world can take a flying fuck. It means whatever we do for the rest of our lives, we do it forever, and we do it openly, and—”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“I'll do anything not to break your heart.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“I will love you for as long as we live. And I will love you if this is as close as we ever get.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“Maybe I can move mountains, change the color of the sky and tilt the center of the world, just to play basketball, just to see you look at me like I
can do anything, just so I don't let you down.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“some people would sacrifice their biggest love for a bigger hate.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“Xander, it's a good thing you weren't some sort of Cossack general, back in the day. You get that tone of voice, that look on your face, and I'm not kidding... even I would follow you into hell.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“It was mindless, it was mechanical, it was
Emily Dickinson's poetry, where the secrets of the universe were encapsulated in body and motion, sweat and breath, physicality and physics,”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“I was important to you,” he said, seeing his angel, seeing his love of the game, and feeling
like they had both become bigger than that dark night behind them.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“If basketball loves me as much as I've loved this sport, then it's not going to care who I am when I play it. If the world hates me more than it loves basketball, then I'd say that's the world's loss.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room

“It was nothing at first. Just a bare brush of lips to lips.”
― Amy Lane, The Locker Room