A Few Good Fish Quotes

“No, Jackson, they’ve got a big ol’ reformed-slut alarm that sounds as soon as you step foot on the ground, and then a force field shoots up, separating us and catapulting you to purgatory for the length of the service. After your first six visits, they give you the option of walking there on your own while a sorcerer whispers arcane words and tries to set me up with a doctor, because that’s just how Jews roll.”

“I can see your sarcasm is functioning well this morning. Isn’t that going to taint the pancakes?”

Ellery struggled to keep his mouth firm. “I can make my pancakes both strawberry and sarcastic. But if you want whipped cream, you’re going to have to shut up, get dressed, and let me have this. Understand?”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“It was a beautiful dream, being with this one person who loved him. He could warm himself by that dream and wake up in its bed every day and every night—but he wasn’t sure if he could ever really inhabit that dream.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“God, my son was wounded as he fought forces beyond his control. He’s a good boy, and he works hard to do what’s right, and we love him very much. We ask that you care for him, and heal his wounds if it is your will, and care for his soul if it is not. May the one who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, bless and heal Ellery Joseph Cramer.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“broken. “Please, God. Let him live.” He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God’s gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“Ellery had packed fairly thoroughly, but Jackson was as incapable as the next person of getting through Walmart without buying something he hadn’t planned on and had no use for.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“There would be no intimacy unless Ace willed it to be, and getting his asshole destroyed by the crisp-moving, slow-talking military man would have simply been a way for Jackson to be all he could be.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“Smart, tough, fearless—tears were a sign of nothing but an emotional trigger system that didn’t mesh well with mascara”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“It had to be their home. Because Jackson literally had no place else to go, either in his person or in his heart. Scary Monsters, Running Fish JACKSON ARRIVED none too soon.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish

“I don’t care if it’s a mosque, a monastery, or a motherfucking cathedral. The next time that man wants to take you to a holy place and thank a higher power for you, go with him. And thank God personally, from me, that you have somebody who loves you like you deserve.”
― Amy Lane, A Few Good Fish