Clear Water Quotes

“Whiskey was still looking some place past Patrick’s shoulder, and suddenly his brown eyes met
Patrick’s with a sort of inscrutable intensity. “Patrick, this isn’t over, okay? You and me? You want to
stay here, you want to keep sleeping in my bed, that’s fine. I like you there. You’re warm and you’re kind,
and it’s comfortable, having you there. But I’m going to want you, and you’re going to want me, and if you
don’t want to follow through on that, that’s fine too. But you’ll need to decide which way you want it, and
you need to make it clear when you make your decision. I’m, like, twelve years older than you, and I don’t
sleep around. I’m not going to hit on you just because you’re cute and you’re here. I need to know it’s
something you want, and it’s something you need, and you’re not just doing it because you think you need
to put out because I’m being human to you. You don’t. All you need to do is be human back.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“He just cleaned the bathroom.”
“So?”
“I’ve been sending samples into the lab when I got bored. They are as of yet unidentified. It never occurred to me to clean the damned thing."
Whiskey sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “I know, I know, I know—you don’t want to get blood all over it now that it’s clean.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“It doesn’t matter anyway!” Patrick couldn’t sit down. He couldn’t. “It’s not like sex is anything to shout about! It’s icky, and the guy never wants to wear a condom, and I have to give a frickin’ health and safety lesson every time I give a blow job because they think I’m stupid, and I know you can get shit from giving head, and I’m not putting that thing in my mouth unless I get a written fucking guarantee that it’s not going to drop off or explode or give me some life-threatening disease or mutant antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea!”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“My hair curls like a yeti’s pubes in this humidity—I’m starting to figure out why product was invented!”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“Whiskey to himself "God,
please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“I haven’t had a home in so long,” he said softly. “I—I want a home with you. I don’t want to leave you when you’re hurt, or fragile, Patrick. I want to be a guy worth making a home for.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“All’orizzonte, le stelle erano visibili in una scia chiara contro il lucido nero e le nubi afose, all’apparenza morbide, e l’acqua nera del fiume erano un rilievo nero sul letto di luce che giocava nell’acqua, lasciando che il mondo intero, il loro mondo, divenisse un capolavoro in bianco e nero.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water

“Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.”
― Amy Lane, Clear Water