Tommy Cabot Was Here Quotes

“Nobody had told him how much of his late thirties would involve lying on floors and crying.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“He really was an idiot, but he was an idiot for Tommy Cabot, and maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“I want to love you by helping you with that mountain of dishes in your sink. And I want to love you by waking up next to you tomorrow. I want to love you by being there when you do whatever you decide to do next month, or next year. I want to love you any way you need to be loved.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“To be fair, everything made him want to cry these days. That, he supposed, was what came of resolutely refusing to experience human emotions for the better part of a decade. They wound up making a huge mess when they finally did come out, like a suppressed sneeze.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“And I want to love you by helping you with that mountain of dishes in your sink. And I want to love you by waking up next to you tomorrow. I want to love you by being there when you do whatever you decide to do next month, or next year. I want to love you any way you need to be loved.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“She’s mentioned an interest in meeting any of my special friends.” “Everett,” Tommy said, his hand over his heart. “Are you saying that we’re special friends?” “Oh God,” Everett groaned. “Are we going steady?”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“But he had both a future and an identity, and they were tied up together in this—being queer, being in love, being someone who had been lost and then found.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“I’m really smitten with the person you turned into, even with the crying and the blushing.” “I’m blushing too? Oh, fuck me.” “I mean, I could. I would. I think I’d do whatever you wanted at this point.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“Thank God. You’re nervous too. After that speech you gave me I was beginning to think you were suave or something, that you had…I don’t know, moves.” “I have moves!” Everett protested. “I was about to suggest that we play Yahtzee.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“I don’t know what I’m doing either. But I want to love you when we make mistakes, and I want to love you when we don’t know what to do. Is that okay?”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“I just wanted to tell you that everything I said last night was stupid,” Everett blurted out. “And that I’d like a chance to fix it, if you’ll let me.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“Are you certain I can’t have my cousins break one of Frank’s kneecaps? Just a little bit?” Pat asked sweetly.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“It’s a horrible thing, choosing between loving yourself and letting yourself be loved by the world, and even worse to have to make that choice when you’re young and desperate for approval.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“Instead he attempted to show Tommy all those things, as if somehow a blow job were a secret language capable of communicating decades of emotion.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“What if he stopped trying to hide it, stopped trying to erase his truth and make himself fit for public consumption? He could cope with whispers; he had dealt with worse.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“Maybe love was like one of those plants that lay dormant in the desert for years, only to be revived at the first sprinkling of rain.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“It felt like coming home to a building he hadn’t known was still standing.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“You are the fun teacher. You bought them candy and root beer. I bet you’re going to make popcorn.” He was not going to make popcorn, mainly because he had forgotten it existed during his time in England, damn it.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“I’m crying into your collar,” he mumbled. “That’s okay too.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“Can we agree that we were both idiots—” “Yes.” “—And just let bygones be bygones.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“If that note doesn’t say ‘let Cabot play with my dick,’ I’m never speaking to you again.” Everett had giggled, actually giggled, and let Tommy push him onto the bed, let Tommy strip him with deliberate care, kissing every slice of skin he exposed.”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here

“It’s a horrible thing, choosing between loving yourself and letting yourself be loved by the world,”
― Cat Sebastian, Tommy Cabot Was Here