Peter Cabot Gets Lost Quotes

“Caleb was being wilfully obtuse.
Caleb hated when people were willfully obtuse. There were enough tragically stupid people in the world without having anyone indulge in recreational stupidity.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“You know, you’ve totally lost the ability to insult me and sound like you mean it,” Peter observed cheerfully. “It all comes out like sweet nothings.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“You’re allowed to be imperfect. Anybody who expects perfection secretly likes being disappointed in people.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“The Chicken Basket,” Peter announced. “The sheep bucket,” Caleb declared promptly. “What game is this?”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Back at the motel, all of Caleb’s restraint disappeared as soon as the door shut behind them. He pushed Peter against the wall. He seemed to have developed a fondness for pushing Peter into things and then kissing him, and Peter at the same time had developed a fondness for getting pushed against things.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“There were enough tragically stupid people in the world without having anyone indulge in recreational stupidity.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Peter already had a partial list. Filed under "things that please Caleb Murphy" were sandwiches, extra fries, cheap beer, and newspapers. Files under "things that drive Caleb Murphy into a snit" was virtually everything else, as far as Peter could tell.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Peter loved it – loved him, if it came to that. It was definitely too soon to even be thinking things like that, but after a lifetime of throwing away love and affection, maybe he had a surplus, and Caleb was welcome to it.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Those conversations always ended with him feeling spent and sorry and more than a little teary. And he didn’t want any of that right now. He didn’t want to spend any more time on that knife’s edge between homesickness and never wanting to go back there again, not when instead he could be looking forward.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Peter just didn't know anything at all, because he was a complete nightmare of loveliness and Caleb didn't know what to do with him.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“As he always did when he swerved too close to a raw feeling, he immediately began griping.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“Peter caught himself staring at Caleb even more than usual, as if memorizing the precise upward tilt of his nose or the degree to which his freckles had multiplied would keep him close. He suspected that Caleb was doing something similar, because he kept staring at Peter with something like confused indignation.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“This wasn’t cuddling, and even if it was, it didn’t mean anything. They were just two people who were reluctant to get out of a cozy bed.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“There had been that moment when Peter touched Caleb’s neck before lunch, but Caleb was ninety percent sure that was an accident and that Peter had needed to have about fifteen existential crises about it. Caleb didn’t have the energy to be anyone’s existential crisis.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“If you make me cry at a pizza parlor in Oklahoma, I swear to God I will hitchhike the rest of the way.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“This was the second time Peter had sucked him off and he wasn’t any kind of expert, but he was sweet as hell. He went about it thoughtfully, curiously, as if paying close attention to what made Caleb react. Actually, there was no as if about it—that was exactly what Peter was doing. He was studying Caleb like a book. And Caleb wished him well, because all he was doing was babbling into the pillow he held over his head, and if Peter could make sense of any of that, good for him.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost