Safe Quotes

“I still haven’t gotten a laugh, so I push a little harder and smile grandly. “You have lovely genitals.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Maybes aren’t torture when you think them into the future. It’s the maybes of the past that burn.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Her lips touch mine in the dark. “I spend a lot of time straddling you.” My fingers thread through her hair. “Hands down. No lie. My favorite part of the apocalypse.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Love is real. So are choices. So third time, Frankie. For the win, charm-time, last time, get your listening ears on, light of life, my someday sunshine lover—”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Are you therapatizing me?”
“I’m friending you.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Life gave me a big, fat, shitty, rotten Armageddon of a lemon, and I didn’t make a useless cup of lemonade with it. I cut the fucker open, germinated its seeds, and grew my own damned not shitty, not-rotten, not-Armageddon garden patch full of lemons.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Maybes,” she says, “are torture games we play to harness sense out of nonsense and order out of chaos.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“I think it’s a really good idea.” I nip at his earlobe, lick his neck, grind against the thick press of him. There won’t ever be some magic event where suddenly I quit being sad over Jimmy. So what’s the point in waiting? “We could die tomorrow. Eat a rotten mushroom. Get murdered by the WHW. Starve. Meet horny cannibals. Anything could happen. Let’s make like Caesar and seize the fucking salad.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe