Hard Fall Quotes

“Something just ain't right about thanking the Lord for sending you an opportunistic pretty boy who carried a string of condoms and single use packets of lube in his pocket. Still, I did it.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I kissed him for a long, long while. My hands wrapped on either side of his face pinned him and wouldn't let him pull away. I didn't want Kabe to ever pull away from me. Let the mountains fall and the stars burn out, I'd never let him go.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Suck my balls, rim me like a pro, then stick your prick up my ass, and you got a problem with the word 'fuck'? Man, you got issues.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I may not believe in God, but I believe in the Wow! That day you kissed me on the ledge, that was it." A light, like I'd seen in the eyes of those testifying on their faith, it lit him up.
"We're tiny out there. In a million years what we do ain't going to matter worth shit and that's still going to be there. I think the Wow will make it better.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“So have you found God?"

I thought Kabe was going to swallow his straw.

""So have you found God?"

I thought Kabe was going to swallow his straw.



I had no idea what was about to come out of his mouth.

"Joe's been talking to me about religion. Out alone, having some real deep, personal conversations. I think Joe has figured out how to get right inside me and know what I need.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“For a moment my heart stopped beating. “It’s not the fall you know.” His breath was all warm on my cheek. “It’s that sudden stop at the end that does it.” Just before I kissed him, I whispered, “I hope it doesn’t hurt much.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I may not believe in God, but I believe in the Wow! That day you kissed me on the ledge, that was it.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You scratch my back, I scratch yours."
The smile faded into a leer.
"No, you suck my dick, I'll suck yours.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You come to me three, four months ago, knowing it, and I might have said you're right. God meant me to not love anyone. Be a rock. Don't be touched by no one. But now I've been touched, in here." I tapped my chest. "There is no fear in love, but love casteth out fear.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“It ain't nothing but you and the heavens and they're so big and so bright that you realize just how little some things matter. And then sometimes, you realize how much little things matter.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Wiping his mouth and tossing the napkin on the table, Wake leaned on his elbow and studied Kabe, long and hard.

Long and hard enough that Kabe started to stare back.

Finally, Wake blurted out, "So have you found God?" I thought Kabe was going to swallow his straw.

Kabe licked his lips. "Joe's been talking to me about religion." I had no idea what was about to come out of his mouth. "Out alone, having some real deep, personal conversations. I think Joe has figured out how to get right inside me and know what I need."

"We all need to hear it."

"Touched me real far inside," My chest tightened up. I twisted my ankle and dropped my boot heel onto the arch of his foot. He yanked it back and leaned over the table a little.

"All burning with it."

My chair scraped the floor as I stood. "Know what, we need to be heading out.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You can just take your prejudice and shove it where the sun don't shine."
One of the hardest things I've ever said. Took every ounce of will in my body to get it passed my teeth.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“The only thing I ever did wrong was what I did right...
loving someone like Kabe.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful.

Overwhelmed.

Lost.

Falling.

My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me, turned my face into his chest. My eyes burned, my chest seized and I bawled like a baby.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Yeah, that's what they claim...we'll accept you so long as you don't go out and get laid. Sucker you into a good ol' feeling of acceptance and then kick you harder and harder in the balls as they try and wean you off of your desires. I believed I could convince a dog to turn into a cat.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“We don't love a God who puts people in a position where they never can love.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Before I put that plan into motion, I had to et over the big hump of there's a guy in my bed. There ain't never been a guy in my bed-at least not one under my roof, in my house. And yet, it just felt so darned right. Like things had always been this way. The little things, that's what did it.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Really, I wouldn't lie to a guy with a gun."
"I'm not armed."
"No, but you got one hell of a gun and you handle it good."
"Like to play with your pistol a bit more.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“That's when the bear in me came out-and not like those internet picture types of furry chests needing to shed the winter pounds...more the grizzly that eats crazy climbers for lunch species.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Why what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to suck your dick."
There's times and places for everything. Ten stores above the canyon, I don't know if it really qualified as either.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“New experiences, what my Grams says, keeps us from going bat-shit in old age.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Lust is a terrible powerful thing and I could hear it in his voice. I couldn't fathom that I inspired it in him.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“We'd gone at it like jackrabbits the night before...hard and fast. This felt nine kinds of different. Relaxed, familiar, comfortable-scared me to my bones.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“There is a big difference between wishing you was doing something and the actual getting it done. And this wasn't no back room in a bar or glory hole where I didn't even have to look at who I was with. This was Kabe.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“And I loved the mountains, loved 'em like my own life. Nothing in the world could compare to a huge sky miles from any hint of civilization.
Reminded me of sex...the openness of it, the forgetting yourself in the moments of it, losing your soul to something bigger and touching creation for just a second. Closet romantic, me.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall