Keeping Promise Rock Quotes

“You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“I love you. I want to shout it sometimes. I know you worry about our letters and texts getting read--shades of WWII, haunting us still, I guess, and I'm well aware that nothing's safe on the internet. I worry too. You need to know that when I say it, when I ask you to say it, it's because my lungs feel full of dark water, and seeing it or writing it lets me breathe.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“I'm still not a god," he said apologetically. Crick stood behind him and pulled his shoulders back against that wide, strong chest.
"Better than a god," Crick murmured. "You're the reason to have faith.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Okay," Crick said, rolling his eyes. "I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?"
Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. "Your heart, you fuckin' moron...”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Whatcha doing, Lieu?" she asked cautiously. "Praying," he muttered. "I suck at it."
"Your doing it wrong," she said flatly. "I'm not big on church, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it with a friend.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“It was the same smile he used in bed with Crick--the gentle, sweet smile that made him look young and a little vulnerable. Crick turned the picture around, and Benny had written, I asked him to think of you.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Jesus, Deacon,” Andrew said from his other side. “Did you know the levee broke? Why didn’t you get up to higher ground?” “’Cause me and God were having a conversation,” Deacon mumbled with as much dignity as he could muster. “I called him a pussy-assed bitch, and he told me he didn’t give a shit. It was a draw.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Okay,” Crick said, rolling his eyes. “I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?” Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. “Your heart, you fuckin’ moron. Man, I get about fifteen minutes a day max out of your ass—it’s your heart I want twenty-four-seven. Jesus, Crick—stop thinking in your pants!”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“If you love them and have faith in them, you'll see them at their best every day.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“I’m finally starting to believe you when you say I’m not a fuck-up. I have met a real fuck-up, and if I was him, I’d be dead.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Crick had asked for something real. If this was the only real he had, he had to fix it, because that was the shittiest reality he could burden Crick with, and he refused to do it.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“He was starting to attribute the fact that the Army wasn’t picking up on his gayness more to the fact that people in general were dumber than camel shit than to anything else. If it walked like a soldier and talked like a soldier and dressed in fatigues, it wasn’t going to want to fuck another guy. Bullshit”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“DP @Crick—I dread the moment when you look at me and decide if I’m a god or a man. Either way, you’ll be disappointed.
Crick @DP—News for you: I had that moment. You’re beautiful either way.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“It’s his family—we… we just sort of gather around him, like satellites. He… he just burns that bright, you know?”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“We want you here in thirty years, asshole!” had been Jon’s final word on the subject, and Deacon found that he didn’t have much fight left in him when it came to being separated from Crick.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Crick had arrived and stumbled into the house, intent on rest and quiet before he killed himself to escape the pain.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Crick may have made a mess, sir, but he also made a promise. There’s not a dishonorable bone in that boy’s body.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“My armor’s tarnished and I shot your horse—I think you can skip the dress. What do you want to hear?”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Promise me that if you ever leave me again, you’ll shoot me in the head while I sleep before you go.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Comet finally lay there, eyes rolling, heart thundering, breath coming in pants, and waited for Deacon to make it better. Deacon positioned the gun, patted Comet’s nose one last time, then stepped back and pulled the trigger and made it all better.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Ist es ’was zum essen?”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“It was the cherry Vaseline, wasn’t it?” she asked, and then continued without waiting for an answer. “What—did you guys use it as lube or something?”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Please, don’t—”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Private Blood-loss”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“Deacon thought he’d felt like Death shit him out and served him as the dog’s breakfast before… well, now he knew how it felt when the dog threw him back up and buried him in guilt.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“What have I ever done to you….” There it went, two octaves, and he wrenched it back under his control. “What have I ever done to you that you would hurt me like that?”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“This was a problem when he hit the pothole in the shitty road, broke the axle, and got thrown headfirst into the windshield at twenty-five miles an hour.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock

“He’d even seen Crick naked in passing and knew that his cock was long and slender, with a little mushroom of a head, and he was pretty sure there was a birthmark one side, but he hadn’t seen it long enough to be sure.”
― Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock