Quotes from Amy Lane

You get killed, Ace, I'm goin' out and blowin' the first ten guys I find. I'll curse your name every time they come.

IN THE end it took them two days, four planes, a bus ride from Reno, and everything but a canoe to get the hell home. They walked into their own house on Christmas Eve, dropped their luggage, kicked a groggy (and naked) Ethan to the couch, hit the shower, and passed out for the next twelve hours.

scrawny alley cat of a man who couldn't avoid trouble if it came with detour signs was going to tell Jason how to run his own personal life? It was just that the quick jab about stomping down on his emotions until they rose up and took a guy by the throat had been so damned…

So you tell Dad, and you two can make your peace with me not being the son you planned on. And I hope you decide to love the son you have." He took a deep breath and saw her expression transition from shock to irritation to hurt.

The man I loved would spit on my grave, and he'd make it stick.

You do it before I'm dead, I'll kill myself in front of you," I said, meaning it. Sonny nodded. "I'll send some feelers out. We're not goin' through this for chickenshit, Ace. We're gonna fuckin' win big.

Sure it is," Trav said, realizing it as he said it. "It's why there's all the fuss about legalizing gay marriage. When you're happy, you want the world to acknowledge that your happiness is valid.

You are the only thing in my life that's ever been mine," he said. I was surprised then by the warmth of his hand on my thigh. "Would like to keep you." "Well, let's maybe see if we can do that without spilling any blood.

So why are we smacking me upside the hair-plugs?

Yes, sir." "Doing this?" The guy used his hat to gesture to the framed porch. "No, sir. Fucking for money.

Oh my God. Stop reading my mind!" "Then stop being a decent human being with perfectly predictable emotional reactions!

I'm just saying—your work ethic, your ability, we could pay you union wages and health and dental, plus workman's comp." He grinned then, showing even teeth. "You get unemployment in porn?" Bobby chuckled. "You do. Never know when you're gonna break your wiener, right?

being licked to death by the fearless warriors who had apparently decided he was their god. Deacon had that effect on people.

Officer Rivers," Dad said, his face stony. "You bothered to follow up?" The officer had super-fair skin, pitted a little from old acne, and it turned rosy in embarrassment. "My partner's a dick,

The music owns me," he repeated, feeling dumb. "I am the music. I close my eyes and… I am that chord, or that moment, or that dance. I am…." The crowd, the guitar, the mood, the lyrics, the heartbeats, the drumbeats, the guitar chords, the sweat, the muscle, the movement, the song. "You can't fall when you're there," he said and swallowed hard.

Wool actually keeps heat in even when it's wet—believe it or not, your hands will get colder unless we have a heat source. Change your socks. Get Damie squared away. Fire's next, okay?

I…." I love you. I think I do. I think maybe I loved you a month ago. I think

Came first?" Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. "God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!

Well, I can no longer hear the silence." But that's okay, because you are mildly amusing and I am enjoying hearing you ramble on like a Led Zeppelin song. "Oh my God!" "What is it this time?" "Your subtext changed!" Jared's smiles were always

Ellery made a mental note to buy Mike something really expensive and manly for Christmas. Like a tractor or truck nuts or a tool system made of adamantium

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

Hey, I can get clear.' It's why we make music and paint pictures. So humans know we're not alone.

No big deal," Margie said, trying to keep her jaw stoic. "Just, you know, a Lap-band. The stomach-stapling thing, right?

In the middle of the shower, she'd dozed off and started snoring. Crick had taken footage on his camera, and Deacon had been in the middle of telling him to knock that shit off when she'd farted, choked on a snore, and rolled out of the recliner and onto all fours, screaming, "I'm up, Parry, I'm on my way!