Roan's Quotes

#1. Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here
and exchange notes once we're done with the interviews? Take a long lunch.'

'Only exchange notes?'

'No one said we can't exchange notes in bed.

Andrea Speed

#2. Did you kiss me?"
"What? Why would you think that?" His smirking face seemed to give nothing away.
"You bastard! Who cops a feel on an unconscious man?"
"Not me. I like my feelees conscious.

Andrea Speed

#3. After what Holden and Kevin had told him, and what he could find himself, he just wanted to sit this guy down, talk calmly and rationally, and then beat him so bad his grandkids would be born dizzy and bleeding from the eyeballs.

Andrea Speed

#4. Maybe the point of I love you is that it is a tether. A connection so you can find your way back to someone even when shit seems huge and unmanageable on your own. A promise to help just because you care about someone, a promise to help that doesn't mean pulling away.

Roan Parrish

#5. What doesn't kill you can be ignored until the immediate crisis has passed.

Andrea Speed

#6. Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. "You wanted to kiss me."
"I still do.

Lindsay McKenna

#7. Something in him just lived to be contrary. If he couldn't have their respect, he'd accept their hate.

Andrea Speed

#8. There's bigots in every race, creed, and orientation. Idiocy is universal.

Andrea Speed

#9. God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.

Andrea Speed

#10. He hated YouTube. He wishes it would die of mad cow disease.

Andrea Speed

#11. He needed to wear that bell around his neck and randomly intone, "Unclean," to warn people.

Andrea Speed

#12. Roan looked at Paris and wondered where they would go from here and if there would be any light at the end of the tunnel before it collapsed on top of them. Too bad there was really no such thing as a happy ending.

Andrea Speed

#13. Shit was getting to Roan, but it was getting to Dylan too. Everyone just needed a hug and possibly some quaaludes, but hey, who was he to judge?

Andrea Speed

#14. What are you wrapped up in?' Roan whispered. Her anger and frustration had shifted to a sympathy that grated Vhalla.'I'm simply learning where I'm meant to be.' It was the only response because it was the truth.

Elise Kova

#15. Have you had unprotected gay sex?"

This time he got a snort and a laugh. "I ain't no butt pirate."

Roan felt the urge to say, " Arr matey, prepare to be boarded," but somehow managed to repress it.

Andrea Speed

#16. the skin like velvet over steel,

Roan Parrish

#17. Roan tried not to stare, but the guard's head was almost perfectly egg shaped. He wanted to ask him if he'd ever had a hen sit on him by mistake.

Andrea Speed

#18. How did I know you were going to show up?"
"Because you're psychic now?"
Dylan raised an eyebrow at that. "If I was actually psychic, sweetheart, I probably wouldn't have
gotten involved with you."
"Oh, ow," he said, grabbing his chest. "I think you just made my heart hurt.

Andrea Speed

#19. After finding "God hates fags" written in Magic Marker on his locker Roan had cleaned it off and then wrote, also in Magic Marker, "I hate your God

Andrea Speed

#20. He has never understood that sometimes real love requires one to let the beloved go. Probably he never will.

Sara Craven

#21. Feel so much better when you're around," I tell him. "'S not fair you get to be with you all the time.

Roan Parrish

#22. Roan, near the standard-bearer. And that's his brother beside

Kristin Cashore

#23. Roan rubbed his eyes, restraining the urge to ask if "light domination" meant he liked having his dates order for him in restaurants.

Andrea Speed

#24. The handwriting in the letter is the neatest I've ever seen. It looks like an old-fashioned love letter or something, every loop perfectly formed. I guess you have a lot of time to practice penmanship in prison.

Roan Parrish

#25. It's an expensive place. The cheapest salad is twenty-five dollars."
"I hope that comes with extra croutons and a hand job.

Andrea Speed

#26. Strong could be dealt with - but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.

Andrea Speed

#27. Are you boiling bacon? "Um. Is that wrong?" I say. "Argh! I want to punch you!" Leo says.

Roan Parrish

#28. I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood.

D.L. Roan

#29. Tattoos are the scars you can choose.

Roan Parrish

#30. She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'.

Lindsay McKenna

#31. Then she says something about the universe sending us pieces of our past selves to embrace so we can heal them and I must be drunker than I thought because I don't follow her at all.

Roan Parrish

#32. Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another.

Andrea Speed

#33. The fool will teach ere he has learned, and his very servants scorn him.

Roan Clay

#34. Cockblocked by the phone. Wanna bet it's Focus On The Family or some Satanic organization like?

Andrea Speed

#35. He hated YouTube. He wished it would die of mad cow disease.

Andrea Speed

#36. To seek after peace is to be ever ware of any who would threaten it.

Roan Clay

#37. I think all people who are obsessed with other people's sex lives are hiding something.

Andrea Speed

#38. Music social foul: no singing a song when another song is playing.
Double music social foul: don't ever fucking sing anything while Pink Floyd is playing. What's wrong with you?

Roan Parrish

#39. That was the problem with caring. It left you vulnerable, open on one side to the most hideous pain imaginable, and the only antidote was to stop giving a shit, but how did you do that? How did you turn it all off?

Andrea Speed