Racing for the Sun Quotes

“...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“I lowered my mouth to his ear and said, “I think you’re my everything.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“The army don’t teach enlisted men how to fly,” I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. “We gotta do that for ourselves.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“I suddenly knew, in a way I’d never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“those promises. I can only promise I want you safe and sound.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“I can’t make good promises,” I said quietly. “I can promise to love you for the rest of my life, but I can’t promise how long that will be. I can promise we’ll be together for as long as possible, but I don’t know how long that will be either. I can promise all sorts of things, but I can’t promise I’ll keep”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“I know who you are,” he said quietly. “Forever, Ace. I’ll do anything.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“Old apartment buildings. Every shitty town has a few, the kind where people live because the day-to-day is cheaper and the empty rooms are rented by the hour.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“Everyone’s revving their engine, slapping their big metal dicks around so we can see how fast they’re going to be. Of course, it also warms the engine up so it’s all loose and sloppy and tight when it needs to be, which is sort of sexual too, so I guess it’s a fuck-fest all the way around.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“Everyone’s revving their engine, slapping their big metal dicks around so we can see how fast they’re going to be. Of”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“You are the only thing in my life that’s ever been mine,” he said. I was surprised then by the warmth of his hand on my thigh. “Would like to keep you.” “Well, let’s maybe see if we can do that without spilling any blood.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“You do it before I’m dead, I’ll kill myself in front of you,” I said, meaning it. Sonny nodded. “I’ll send some feelers out. We’re not goin’ through this for chickenshit, Ace. We’re gonna fuckin’ win big.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“The man I loved would spit on my grave, and he’d make it stick.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“You get killed, Ace, I’m goin’ out and blowin’ the first ten guys I find. I’ll curse your name every time they come.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun

“Easier than blood,” he said softly, and my breath caught, because we both knew I had blood on my hands, and I suspected he had a little of his own. “Yeah, but don’t no one but us know that.”
― Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun