Lisa Henry Quotes

It's a laugh," Grady said. "No way a laugh can sound bad. You heard the way Cody snorts like a pig? You got nothing to be ashamed of.

He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart.

Lucky for you," Zev said calmly, "there's a boy in your cabin who saw the whole thing and still wants to be in your bunk.

Blake looked confused. So footballers were mostly the same the world over. "Football," Blake said. "Ya know ... football?

You want to stay over?"
"No. I want you to want me to stay over.

Maybe it was a miracle that had placed Elijah in Dr. Carter's care. Most likely it was proof that God was cruel.

For most people, blood is still thicker than water, but I guess all bets are off when you put money in the mix.

One foot in front of the other,' Lee murmured.
'One sand dollar and then another.

People don't like when they can't figure you out. When you're too quiet. It scares them.

I ain't got much patience for virgins. You just grit your teeth and mind you don't scream too loud.

Well, sometimes it's not about the birds and the bees, is it? Sometimes it's about the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees.

Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.

The men who killed your monsters weren't heroes. They were even more frightening.

I want my son back," his mom had said. Lee didn't know where to find him.

So be brave and be good and be everything.
For him.

It'll blow your mind, he'd said. Nothing about what it would do to his heart.

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

I'm keeping you. You ain't figured it out yet, but I'm keeping you.

Time was meaningless, except each moment was a countdown to the end.

'You're like starlight,' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.'

you're too angry to be a nihilist.

Sometimes Blake was shockingly perceptive. And other times he got himself locked in Portaloos.

What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" ~Mark Cooper

I'm not letting you give me a dinosaur and run away! Dinosaurs fucking meant something.

[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.

You saved my life. You're my whole world, and still I turn away.

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business.

But suddenly I was dreaming of cock. Fisting it, sucking it, riding it, in glorious fucking Technicolor.

You're my heartbeat, Brady.

Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass.

What's the difference between a lie and a secret?

I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway.

Sometimes the universe collapsed in the blink of an eye.
Other times it limped on and on, hour by hour, day by day, and wouldn't fucking die.

If we want to survive, we adapt.

Some guys were meant to be heroes. I was never one of them, but fuck it, I could learn.

At what point in your life did you decide you were the sort of guy who wanted to be fisted?

You think you slayed your demon," Daniel murmured finally. "And it turns out he's built a whole wall of himself around your life.

I just want to see what it's like when I don't hurt.