Kelly Abbott Quotes

#1. I thought you were some sort of camp counselor," Julian finally said to Kelly. "Work with troubled kids and all that." Kelly pursed his lips. "Yeah. It's called Camp Asskicker.
I'll give you a 'you tried' badge next time I see you.

Abigail Roux

#2. I'm not under the influence anymore. Much. Even if I was, I've done things way worse than you that I've never regretted.

Abigail Roux

#3. You're so fucking hot, you know that?" Kelly whispered.
"I bet you tell that to all your oldest friends as you're jacking them off."
Kelly snickered and arched his back, seeking contact. "No, just you.

Abigail Roux

#4. I love you, Nick," Kelly whispered. "No matter what those words meant before, we know what they mean now. They're ours now. Just ours.

Abigail Roux

#5. This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

Lauren Oliver

#6. You trying to sweep me off my feet?" Kelly asked, a little breathless.
Nick grinned. "No. But I am going to take you up on that sloppy blowjob you offered."
Kelly cackled as Nick dragged him inside. "Who says romance is dead?

Abigail Roux

#7. I am standing still," Kelly said. "What, does that thing not work when I'm talking? It gets distracted? It's a metal detector with ADD?

Abigail Roux

#8. This could work out pretty nice for both of us, Nicko. I've never been with anyone where it was so easy so fast. Where it felt like home. But you've always been home to me.

Abigail Roux

#9. Oh god, what now? Are you in jail? Being held by the IRA? Stuck on a reef in the Caribbean?"
"Wow," Kelly said. "That's uncalled for."
Zane laughed. "I thought being engaged to Ty gave me some extra snark privileges.

Abigail Roux

#10. The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Anne Tyler

#11. This is the worst vacation ever," Kelly said as he turned and followed Ty up the steps.
"Yeah, we don't use that word.

Abigail Roux

#12. What are books good for?"
"Hitting intruders?" Nick mumbled. He rubbed his eyes again. "Doorstops. Insomnia. Special interrogation techniques. Silencing bedmates in the middle of the night.

Abigail Roux

#13. Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

#14. Now you should be thinking about me fucking you," he hissed. "Because I sure as hell am."
"Oh God," Kelly breathed.
"No, you don't say his name when I fuck you. You say mine.

Abigail Roux

#15. He was fine dying here, long as this motherfucker died first." -- The Devil in Snakeskins

Andy Henion

#16. This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First.

Kelly Moran

#17. Oh Jesus, hello prostate," he gasped.

Abigail Roux

#18. Oh Jesus, Digger on a horse," Kelly said. "He kept threatening to make his horse into stew."
"He named his horse Stu," Nick added.

Abigail Roux

#19. Look, I love you." Kelly told him. "You love me. We've bled for each other. Why can't that turn into more?

Abigail Roux

#20. I had a lot of nights alone," Kelly said. Nick raised his head, and their noses brushed. Kelly's breath was warm against his lips. "I called your name every damn time.

Abigail Roux

#21. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Gore Vidal

#22. Digger stood and ambled toward the balcony. "This explains so much. I feel like I've just finished a crossword puzzle."
"How do you know what that feels like?" Kelly asked

Abigail Roux

#23. I love you," Nick whispered. "Has nothing to do with the circumstances, or our history, or how close to death we've come together. I would love you in any incarnation of yourself.

Abigail Roux

#24. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.

Abigail Roux

#25. I love you. You crazy bastard.

Abigail Roux