Paint It Black Quotes

“out the right words to tell him he was perfect and beautiful and make him believe it.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Like the way Blake had cried while bandaging those blisters, because Cheever was perfect and beautiful, and he couldn’t figure”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“but the family rule of thumb was never wake a sleeping child. Sheets could be washed, a bath could wait, but the time lost comforting”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“This boy was going to leave him. He was young and bright and so full of promise, and Blake was nobody’s first choice. Cheever would leave him, and Blake would be lost all over again. And this time, he’d never find his way home.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Kids were his soft spot. Who knew?”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“He’d been there as the brothers had grieved, had seen the damage wreaked on someone who should have been young and beautiful, but who instead had wasted in the poison of his parents’ garden.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“You Sanders boys,” he mumbled. “Looking for art, for poetry, for story, for music. Like meteors, carving light through the sky. How’m I supposed to be in that picture?” “We need the sweetness,”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“I’d give anything to know you were okay. But it’s not fair to ask us to sacrifice that boy so you can heal. Do you understand?”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Cheever bit his lip. God, if nothing else, he was getting an education as to what made Mackey James Sanders such an undeniable force in the universe.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“sixty-dozen arrangements”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Because the songs that don’t make the listener feel like barbed wire is ripping through their chest make them feel like someone’s stitching up the wound with a rusty needle and a bottle of scotch for the pain. It’s not always happy, but God, those songs make you feel.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Cheever was silent then, appalled, because it sort of hit him. He was going through hell, but his brother had already been there. And his brother was mad because Cheever had gone and foisted his hell on somebody else.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Apparently just thinking about Grant Adams and his brothers was enough to conjure a miracle. Of all things, Grant was dying of cancer, and Cheever had a brain cell to think that Grant was the luckiest sonuvabitch Tyson had ever seen.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Anyway, it was just really important that I come out here for him, you know? So he’s never afraid I’ll leave him alone in an empty room.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“He was talking quietly to their front man—a stunningly gorgeous, androgynous person dressed in a crisp white dress shirt and black slacks”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Hey, I can get clear.’ It’s why we make music and paint pictures. So humans know we’re not alone.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“All alone in an empty room.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“I opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I’d be missing you.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“I can’t need you, boy. What happens when you leave?”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“I could retire,” he said, as though to himself. “That would be good. I could retire, and the wife and I could move to a desert island, and—” “Doc?”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“We’re all broken inside a little. You step on us in the right places, we’re gonna fucking shatter.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“I know you’re gonna leave me. It’s like the night following the day. I can’t do much but hold on tight, until you go away. Just don’t leave me All alone in an empty room.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I’d be missing you. All alone in an empty room.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Moons decay. Stars explode. That leaves me where I am. All alone in an empty room.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Cheever started rocking back and forth, shaking, and Cambridge made an unhappy little sound. “Oh, son. Pain makes you selfish, did you not know that?”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Boy, you don’t know it, but you really are still a baby. You’re amazingly fucking young. Don’t write off the rest of your life like that, okay? There’s some stunning, gorgeous moments waiting for you. Don’t make a plan that’ll make you miss out on them.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“Because the songs that don’t make the listener feel like barbed wire is ripping through their chest make them feel like someone’s stitching up the wound with a rusty needle and a bottle of scotch for the pain. It’s”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black

“But whether you’re fixed or broke I need you to come back Just promise me no matter what You’ll still be coming back I’ll put together all your pieces If only you come back.”
― Amy Lane, Paint It Black