We Could Be So Good Quotes

“Families might usually be bonded by blood, but maybe sometimes they’re bonded by shared secrets, by a delicate mixture of caution and faith, by the conviction that hiding together is better in every way than hiding alone.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“if I have to choose between work and you, between a story and you, between anything and you, I’m picking you.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“That’s the thing about walls. They don’t tend to appear for no good reason; they’re either closing something off or holding something up, and you can’t just wish them away.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“I want a life with you. I want this to be—I want more than we can have.” Andy is looking at him so carefully, too carefully. “But I want it anyway,” Nick admits.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“A couple times a year, Nick finds a tale of gay misery and woe on his desk, because apparently Bailey has taken it upon himself to be Nick's personal sad gay librarian.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Everyone he knows is trying to assemble some kind of life from the spare parts they have lying around, just like Andy.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“But here is Andy, laying himself bare, and Nick isn’t sure he’s ever seen anything so brave in his life. This is a man who plays it safe, a man who orders the same sandwich every day for lunch. And now he’s taking a risk, and he’s taking it for Nick.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“But Nick's tired of dead queers. Nick's tired of people like him having to suffer in order to provide the right kind of ending. He's done his time with shame and doesn't want any more of it.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“He wants to tell Nick that he loves him, but his entire experience with that phrase is that it does nothing to stop anyone from leaving.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Andy flashes Nick a smile, a thousand watts of professionally straightened teeth, and it’s like a two-by-four to the head. It takes Nick a minute to arrange his face.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“And if Andy hadn’t already known he loves Nick—if Andy had managed to tuck that truth away where he keeps everything else he doesn’t want to deal with—he would have known it then, watching Nick laugh with the butcher on a sunny May morning.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“That time is gone, that version of himself is gone, and there's nowhere to go but forward.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“We no longer have the energy to hide. You can't know the strain on a person in always pretending.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“And maybe it's like everything else. Maybe the trick is to put fear in its place so it doesn't take over. He can relegate the vice cops and petty rumors to the same corner of his mind where he puts atom bombs and other lurking evils.

What he can do is—God, he keeps thinking of that woman. He can feed the goddamn ducks and he can kiss his boyfriend. He can believe that the future they have is worth more than his fear, and he can do what it takes to make the future as safe and happy as possible.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Andy’s had enough people putting him last and Nick isn’t going to be one of them.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“He's queer. The thoughts going through his head are inescapably queer, and so is he. Even if he never does anything about it, he's still queer.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Do you have a copy of Phaedrus?" he calls out.
"Do I have a what?"
"Plato's Phaedrus."
"Oh yeah, it's right over by the-- No, I fucking don't have any Plato in my apartment, for fuck's sake, Andrew."
This time Andy does roll his eyes. God forbid anyone point out that Nick has literally hundreds of books in his apartment.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“They’re all going to wind up miserable at the end.” Nick appears over the back of the sofa, still holding a cast-iron frying pan and looking like he wants to grab the book from Andy’s hand. “No, they won’t. I read the final chapter.” “You did what?” Nick sounds scandalized. “I’m not wasting my time on things that make me sad.” He learned that lesson with Old Yeller, thank you very much.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Maybe the trick is to put fear in its place so it doesn’t take over. He can relegate the vice cops and petty rumors to the same corner of his mind where he puts atom bombs and other lurking evils.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Men don’t mess around with other men in order to rule out queerness. Apart from some pretty limited exceptions—the army, the navy, fourteen-year-olds out of their minds with hormones—men who screw around with other men are doing it because they specifically want to screw around with men.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“These men are finding time and energy to flirt and have queer parties and get jealous and fall in love despite bombs and injuries and death. That feels like the truest thing he's ever read.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“For the next few days, Andy is aware of having passed a point of no return, some kind of gay Rubicon.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“I was going to make minestrone soup,” Nick says. “You like soup.”
“I do like soup,” Andy agrees. “I take it that’s an invitation, not you taunting me with soup I don’t get to eat.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“He feels as if he’s been turned inside out, as if he just learned that a part of his heart is on the outside of his body, in the possession of somebody else entirely.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“He sits down on the stoop and nearly cries. He just wants juice.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“that if you want something, you have to grit your teeth and jump in with both feet that it matters less how you land than that you get there in the first place.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“He reads the demand for acceptance and basic rights, the rejection of shame and fear. He reads the calm rebuttal of all the usual arguments against homosexuality, and the statement that it makes no sense to argue against a thing that simply is.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Nick's the kind of person who reads an entire magazine, cover to cover, and then throws it away. It's amazing what some people are capable of.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“Andy rolls over and puts his feet in Nick’s lap, watching a curl of smoke drift toward the ceiling. Nick begins to unlace Andy’s shoes, muttering something about animals who wear shoes indoors. Andy can’t imagine why animals would wear shoes anywhere.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good

“His heart’s already a little broken, so why not break it all the way through.”
― Cat Sebastian, We Could Be So Good