Avery Cockburn > Quotes

“So sometimes life puts a giant plate of steaming hot blueberry fucking pancakes on your table. It’s still down to you whether to eat them or say, ‘No, thanks.’ You can walk away from shite or pancakes. Wait for the next course, see if something tastier comes along.” “But it’s better, you think, to seize the pancakes?” “Aye!” John raised his empty tumbler to the approaching waitress. “Carpe pancakes!”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing for Keeps

“My crotch is the ultimate entertainment unit.”
― Avery Cockburn, Play On

“LIAM HATED SILENCE. Once, when he was eleven, a case of laryngitis left him speechless for a week. Feeling like his soul had been ripped out, he’d asked his mother for one of those Stephen Hawking machines with a robot voice to replace his own. How cool that would’ve been. Even”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Because as delicious as my dinners are, they pale in comparison to my breakfasts.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing to Win

“Wow, Silicon Valley,” she said. “So much brain power in one place. I’m jealous.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Fuck them both. And their waffles.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing for Keeps

“Andrew made jazz hands around his own grinning face. “Because of this.” “Because you’re hot?” “Because I’m happy.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing to Win

“A gift?” Illusive pressed a palm to his chest in a mock swoon. “You realize that according to Grindr terms of service, this means we’re married.” “In”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Home isn’t home when you cannot be who you are, when you are surrounded by hate.” She met each of the Warriors’ eyes. “Better to make a new home. Only then can you find peace.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing for Keeps

“Pizza’s on its way,” Liam whispered. Robert tightened his embrace. “That’s the most romantic thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Robert wasn’t sure that trapping the four of them in a box for the entirety of a carnival ride was the best idea—though it seemed an interesting concept for a reality show—but he nodded and went along.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“Call a timeout. Call a timeout. For the love of sweet baby Jesus on a pogo stick, call a timeout.”
― Avery Cockburn, Throwing Stones

“Then again, they do live in Scotland’s second-largest inhabited castle, so perhaps she simply couldn’t find him.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“It won’t happen overnight, but after years of carefully cultivated chaos, the West will eat itself.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing in the Dark

“as if it weren’t a two-hundred-foot-high monster whose low railing and nonexistent shoulder made Paul feel like he was driving a flying car, but not in a whimsical, George-Jetson way so much as an oh-this-is-how-I-die way.”
― Avery Cockburn, A Christmas Harbor

“asked for it, Navy Davy.”
― Avery Cockburn, A Christmas Harbor

“Each seven-minute episode was a mind-numbing eternity to John, who’d been raised on the madcap spectacle of Teletubbies.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“It will. It’s the earth. It’s a big place.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing to Win

“dancer?” “Exactly. No matter what you read, you’re expanding your mind into another person’s consciousness.”
― Avery Cockburn, A Christmas Harbor

“They say you’re heavily sedated, but that you might still be able to hear me. Which is also good, because talking to oneself is an eccentricity not currently in vogue.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“Zoos are an abomination. It’s unnatural to keep wild animals in captivity.”
― Avery Cockburn, Play Dead

“As always, a dozen or so people were gathered about the base of the Duke of Wellington statue. As always, the mounted Duke wore a traffic cone on his head, placed there by—well, someone—despite its daily removal by the police.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“Liam’s amusement—as amused as he could be at the moment, considering no one had told him it was Treacherous Bastard Night at Hannigan’s.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“And you don’t think this is just a phase I’m going through?” Liam blanked for a moment at this return to serious talk. “What do you mean?” “That first night we were together at Loch Lomond, you said I just needed time to get used to the idea of being gay.” “Och, I really said that, didn’t I?” Liam rolled onto his back, covering his face with both hands. “I’m such an arse.” “Did you mean it?” “At the time? Maybe.” He turned his head to look at Robert. “But obviously it was me who needed to get used to the idea of you being bi.” Robert’s broad smile told Liam he’d given the perfect answer—which was fortunate, as it was also the honest one.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“The wars.” The word came out a strangled whisper. “Aye, they got attacked, but did they have to ruin the world?”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“I feel like there’s a fire-code violation going on down there.” He gestured to his trunks. “Such crowding can’t be healthy.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“Go west, young man.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Andrew’s his best man—he’ll put on the world’s poshest stag do. They’ll be eating caviar off the abs of a high-priced rentboy, one wee dab on each part of his six-pack.”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3

“Sex needed trust too.”
― Avery Cockburn, Playing With Fire

“Liam’s prick gave a swift jerk, as though ready to unfasten itself from his body and hop on the Number 60 bus to accommodate Robert this moment. “You still there?”
― Avery Cockburn, Glasgow Lads: Books 1-3