Forever Promised Quotes

“It’s hard to miss,” she said. “It’s the main road through, like, three towns.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Besides Shane, Benny was the only other person on the planet who got to call him Mickey—and that included Shane’s sister, who had known him first.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“By the time Shane and Mikhail had stood on a miserably wet February day and said funny, singular vows of their”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“We have brought you lengths and lengths of crinoline and taffeta and tulle. Kimmy and I, we have made our costumes for years. We will make you such a dress. Let us make you a dress for your prince, so that we may see you married.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“No, cow woman, I was too busy avoiding your great and powerful ass. It was in my way. Now make up for it and go fetch like the peasant you are.” “Bitch.” “Heifer.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“In the middle of the shower, she’d dozed off and started snoring. Crick had taken footage on his camera, and Deacon had been in the middle of telling him to knock that shit off when she’d farted, choked on a snore, and rolled out of the recliner and onto all fours, screaming, “I’m up, Parry, I’m on my way!”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Like the first time I saw you,” Crick murmured. “Like proof that God exists.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“All we can do is love this kid. It is literally all we have.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“those years,” he said, his voice rough. “I found this place escaping church. Deacon, I swear, this is the closest to God I ever feel.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“That’s the hard part. The hope. You two gotta decide if you’re up for the hope and the disappointment right there, because that’s the hard part.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“After all, Collin had been voted among his friends as most likely to sneak out of his mother’s house, steal a car, get laid, and get back home before the car was reported missing, the come was dry, and breakfast was served.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“That’s what this place is. It’s a promise that there will be more memories. It’s a promise that love will live on.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“What if he bites someone?” “He hardly chews his food.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“That’s the point. Don’t you see? From the minute that swimmer found a home, we were going to worry. This ride gets faster and scarier and trickier, and the loops get higher, and there’s more of them, and the entire fucking roller coaster is just going to go zooming down the track at Mach fucking twelve, and that’s”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“It was a random chance meeting of one particular sperm from a crowd and one particular egg from whichever ones popped out of the party room to look for adventure. It was hope that things would develop to the point where there was a real human being in there, and not just a collection of cells, and some more hope that the whole thing would coalesce and cook until done, and pop out pissed off and viable and ready to keep growing.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“It’s a mystery. It’s like all babies. It’s a mystery, and all we can do is pray.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“A wave of self-consciousness washed over him. Awesome. He’d just given the guy time off to go watch a doctor get his girlfriend pregnant with his boss’s baby.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“She sighed. “Okay. But unless something else good comes along, I’m stopping at eight!”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“It’s like they get bored and it’s the world’s greatest toy.” “And it’s portable too!” Collin gasped before banging his head back down on the ground.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“How you could think Lucas would blame you for the blind malice of a brainless virus, I will never know, but you must stop it this instant, do you hear me?” Kimmy was crying again, but it was a different brand of tears.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Would that change? With enough peace, enough joy, would hope stop being the traitor at Deacon’s table? Someday, maybe. Someday, maybe hope would be his friend.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“You are being such a dick as to make a real dick look like a labia minora”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“that they cared for would not be hurt, it was nowhere to be found, and the wounds were as fresh and as red as they had been when both of them had been brand-new and had no sins in the world to stain them.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“And like Mikhail, when he had slid from dance to drugs to the streets at the age of fifteen, she had lived and breathed a profession in which it was better to be high than even a pound above the minimum weight to sustain life.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Yes, well, you did not boycott the place that fed you, even if they stood against everything you stood for.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Kimmy’s got a mouth like a sailor fucking a trucker,”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“I rolled my ankle and alienated your youngest sister,” Deacon snapped, out of patience with his day. “Put me on the back of a horse and let’s see if I can raze the town!”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised

“Deacon closed his eyes, surrounded by a big sweaty man who was not his mate but who had just done what probably every alpha male in the history of all species anywhere had always dreamed of doing.”
― Amy Lane, Forever Promised