Red Fish, Dead Fish Quotes

“Not like that,” Ellery whispered, rubbing Jackson’s lip with his thumb now. “Like… like you were fading from us, transparent. Like you had given up your body, your life with me, because it was just too damned hard.” “It was hard,” Jackson admitted.”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish

“You’ve completely managed my life for the next twelve hours. Why do you have that ‘nipple-clamp’ expression on your face?”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish

“On second thought, there was no gift big enough for Mike. Maybe a house. Maybe buy Jackson’s duplex from Jackson and just give it, carte blanche, to Mike. These were hard truths—terrible, painful truths. From Ellery they’d sound petty and self-serving.”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish

“Ellery made a mental note to buy Mike something really expensive and manly for Christmas. Like a tractor or truck nuts or a tool system made of adamantium”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish

“We have a kind of dead body? Most couples just go with favorite song.”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish

“Ellery made good on his threat to put on his pajamas—warm flannel, soft as a kitten’s ass. Jackson had actually gotten to sleep a couple of nights by petting those damned pajamas.”
― Amy Lane, Red Fish, Dead Fish