Living Promises Quotes

“Jeff Beachum, Sergeant of Snark, Wielder of Witticism, Dominator of the Double Entendre, completely ran out of things to say.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Shane! Shane! You must keep the boy from eating any more! You have no idea what will happen!” Collin was face to face with Martin’s father then, and they both heard Martin say, “You stay away from my eats, little man, or I will end you!” “You need to put that down, Martin, or you will never fit through another door!”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“„Like‟ is a mild sort of word for what Con and I have,” Collin replied, leaning forward to touch noses with the big doofus. Constantine half-closed his eyes and twitched his whiskers back. “I‟d go with the deeply twisted interpersonal relationship that a hero has for his nemesis, sort of a Batman/Joker thing, if the Joker suddenly started going down on Batman like a porn-star on Viagra.”
Jeff looked at him in alarm. “Jesus, Sparky, stop touching my cat!”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“You wouldn’t shut up about how brain-damaged that ‘little Rusky diva-bitch’ was and how he needed to just ‘get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after’—you remember that?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“You are making me something, cow-woman, or is that just make believe and pretend, like your sex life?'

'I'm making you a gag, Mickey, so I can knit in fucking peace.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“It's like... I don't see in color anymore, you know? I look at something and I think I know what it looks like, and then I think about what the world would look like without Deacon, and it goes to black and white.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“He wasn't sure which one of them initiated the kiss, but it started soft and then went sweet and then went tender and then went tinder, and then went out-of-control blaze.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Some nice lady came over here with food for us all. She claimed to be your mother. I don't believe it--you're an asshole, and she's good people.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Mackey”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“You can’t leave me,” he whispered. “It’s just that simple. No Deacon, no Crick. I’m not strong like Jeff. I can’t just keep going for years and make everybody laugh and not take anything good for myself. I need you.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Yelling, ‘Fire in the hole!’ and blowing your brains through a straw?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“who brought their knitting in public, just to keep him from the feeling that the clock was ticking at odd hours of the day with nothing to fill the time.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Jeffy the weak is the guy who would have bailed on you to cry in his room while your mother took you to the hospital. As God is my witness, Collin Waters, you are never going to meet Jeffy the weak.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“you’ve fallen for this man, so hard, so deep, it’s like falling off a building and punching a hole through the tarmac to the hidden black caverns of trust, pain, and fear beneath.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“five years ago, I loved who you would become. I love you, but I’m terrified, and I think right now I’ll just take this, my head on your shoulder, your breath in my ear, and tell myself that this is all I can hope for, it’s more than I deserve, it’s more than some people get in a lifetime. I love you, but I’m going to tuck it up in my chest for a little while more, until I’m stronger, until I’m braver, until I’m sure I won’t hurt you with the jagged parts of myself that are still catching on my own heart and ripping little holes in it.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“I….” I love you. I think I do. I think maybe I loved you a month ago. I think”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“That was what you got when you stayed up all night, talking to a teenager about his beloved older brother, who actually had succeeded in killing himself with his own fucking valor. That was what you got when you wandered around in a hospital, chased relentlessly by ghosts who all moaned terrible messages about being alone, forever alone, locked in a box, submerged in your own bitterness.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Kimmy was suddenly there, shoulder to shoulder—the irritating heifer was actually taller than he was—and her voice, quiet in his ear, was surprisingly soothing.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“The idea that Crick’s golden god, who had loved him so simply and so faithfully even as boys and young men, was mortal, that the living cage might someday disintegrate and the soul that Crick was bound to would expand to brighten the larger universe was….”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“I promise,” he whispered, as deadly serious as Jeff. “I promise. I’ll live. I’ll be warm. I’ll want just you.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Jeff’s eyes opened then, and he was still desperate and still hot but suddenly very, very serious. “Live,” he said. “Breathe. Be warm. Want me.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“All his family was happy, and he could finally relax enough to go into A-fib.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“You, uhm… I mean, I’m not going to step on the gas and find myself in the next county with a horse plastered on the grill, am I?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“The elephant in the living room, eating what looked like a mixing bowl full of cold cereal with the force and verve of a backhoe at a landfill. “God. Don’t you go somewhere in the day?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“Even if I leave you, I won’t leave you, okay? Even if you carry the casket and have to say goodbye and find someone else to love, I’ll still be with you, okay? I meant it. Always. You hear?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“this moment, this moment here, when his lover was making shushing noises in his ear, that wasn’t always guaranteed, now was it?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“guess,” he said thoughtfully. “I mean… it’s not like… it’s not like he’s going to be anything other than Deacon, right?”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“They burnt his flag,” he finished on a sob. “Before I left, I asked my dad what happened to Kevin’s flag, and he said he’d burnt it.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises

“and his warm flannel pajamas and the vast, white, icy, aching loneliness waiting in the void left by his shattered heart.”
― Amy Lane, Living Promises