Between the Teeth Quotes

“I can’t make you do anything,” David says.

“You’d be surprised,” Jake murmurs.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth

“I am too, you know,” Jake says, and when David frowns at him, “In love with you.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth

“David looks down at his hands, twisting his fingers together. His heart feels like it’s in his throat. He knows that it isn’t, that it’s anatomically impossible, but there’s no other way to explain the nauseated, frantic pounding, the way he feels like he’s choking on it.

“Take your time,” Jake says, and that’s what spurs David to speak.

“I told him I was in love with you,” David mumbles to his hands.

“What?” Jake asks. “Sorry, I—”

“I told him I’m in love with you,” David says, and he’s still looking down, avoiding meeting Jake’s eye, so he’s entirely caught off guard when Jake kisses him.

Jake has always been — careful, might be the best word. He usually kissed David soft and slow, at least at first.

This isn’t anything like that.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth

“I’m not sure what that kiss meant to you,” Jake says. “If you wanted — if it’s just sex or me being familiar or whatever for you, that’s totally fine, you know? I get it. But if that’s the way it is, I don’t think I can — I really can’t do anything casual with you, it’d literally kill me.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth

“David never thought he was stupid, but he’s feeling, more and more all the time, that maybe he is, that things shouldn’t be so hard.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth

“That’s a beautiful fucking sound,” Benson says, skating by the Capitals bench.

“So’s the goal horn,” Robbie says beside him. “And only one of them means shit, move along minus two.”
― Taylor Fitzpatrick, Between the Teeth