Steve Watkins > Quotes

“But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After”
― Steve Watkins

“In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“I could do it. I could keep on driving and not look back.”
― Steve Watkins, Juvie

“Haven’t I already given up enough? Haven’t I already paid the price for something I didn’t even do?”
― Steve Watkins, Juvie

“Later, when I walked Littleberry out to his Vespa, he asked if he could kiss me.
'Well, yeah,' I said, my heart thumping. Finally.
'I'm a really good kisser,' he added, as if I still needed him to talk me into it.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“You OK?'
'Yeah,'
He didn't believe me, I guess, because he put his arms around me, and we did an awkward sort of hug. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, with the snow falling harder around us, and the early winter wind picking up, until I melted, and let my head rest on his shoulder, and closed my eyes to the beautiful, terrible world.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“He tries to hand the water back, but I refuse. Jeremy's will is always stronger than anybody else's, though, and when he says he'll only drink more if I do first, I cave and drink”
― Steve Watkins, Great Falls

“back, and then sit”
― Steve Watkins, Great Falls