Ethan in Gold Quotes

“... I mean, I'm not going to spare your feelings, Dad - I wanted to be his frickin' chocolate bunny today, but, really he popped a couple of jelly beans and said, 'This isn't right' and walked away. I mean, I think he was starving for chocolate bunny - but he walked away. Who does that?”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“ 'You... you're--'

'A virgin?' Jonah's voice cracked in the middle of that hated word.

'Holy fucking merciful Christ giving Peter a blow job.'

'Jesus,' Jonah breathed.

'Came first?' Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. 'God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!' ”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“Okay. Some things were made of hope. But not this thing. This thing he was doing, that was made of surrender.

He did it anyway. At least when you surrendered, you had time to kiss the people you loved good-bye.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“ 'We're doing it because he's trying to look like a respectable member of the family and not the fucking mafia,' Dex snapped. He grimaced at Ethan. 'Sorry, man, but seriously--this is some fuckin' suit.'

Ethan looked at himself and his spiffy shiny cuffs and sighed. 'I was going for grown-up,' he confessed.

Kane was the one who said it. 'Well, what you got was connected, but that's okay, right? Because, you know, better a hired killer than a porn star.' ”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“SO WHEN was a person dead? Was it between heartbeats? Between breaths? Was it as soon as the morphine kicked in and they would never be conscious again?”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“Jonah kissed him with an open mouth and a full heart and tried to tell him with his bare body that sometimes you didn’t have to break. Sometimes being human was strong enough. Ethan breathed through him and then took over the kiss, rolling over, giving Jonah shelter from the chill in the room and the sudden somberness between them.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“Came first?” Amelia said, popping out of the ladies’ room with impeccable timing. “God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“love working out,” Ethan said sincerely. “I mean, at first I did it because, well, I was hanging out with the kids who got the crap beat out of them most of the time. But now? Man, just… just having that much power over your body? It’s priceless. The whole world can be falling to shit, but”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“He was pulling Bs in his classes, because that was what you got when you weren’t really trying,”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“He stepped into Tommy’s hug like a traveler in the rain steps into a bus station. It wasn’t home, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t grateful to be out of the cold.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold

“She was twenty-two, not nearly out of college, and she had a collection of old boyfriends that looked like a reunion from that old show Cops.”
― Amy Lane, Ethan in Gold