Country Mouse Quotes

“Okay, basics. The three S’s: shower, shit, and shave—every man could do that in his sleep. So he did. He managed his complete morning routine in a mental and emotional coma.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“He tasted like gingermint and chocolate kulfi and something stronger and more powerful, something like want and need, and Owen drank him in and gave him back, dying for him in the subjective three hours it took to get to Malcolm's door.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“Malcolm chuckled wickedly. "You, my American friend, are like a hidden landmine of sex appeal. I'm going to have to look out for you."
"Too late." Owen raised his face to the unfamiliar smells, breezes, sounds of the city, enjoying them even more now that he knew something of it and it had become personal to him. "I've already exploded. You're caught."
He tilted his head back and laughed, inviting Malcolm to share the joke, but Malcolm was unusually quiet.....”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn’t lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other after a half an hour’s acquaintance. It’s not something you in particular should shit on, you know?”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“If you’re decent to people, you’ll usually find out they’re decent people, too.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“Walking away from you was like walking away from the best part of me. I almost didn’t recognize him.Walking away from you was like walking away from the best part of me. I almost didn’t recognize him.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“The three S’s: shower, shit, and shave—every man could do that in his sleep.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse

“London Bridge, which is just outside the door.”
― Amy Lane, Country Mouse