Imogen Keeper > Quotes

“There are friends, and there are friends. Some people say nice things, and others do nice things … and then there are those who do the thing that must be done. The first two are easy. The third is the one that matters.”
― Imogen Keeper, Haven

“Death might be forever, but memories are as long as life.”
― Imogen Keeper, Haven

“I still haven’t gotten a laugh, so I push a little harder and smile grandly. “You have lovely genitals.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“I think it’s a really good idea.” I nip at his earlobe, lick his neck, grind against the thick press of him. There won’t ever be some magic event where suddenly I quit being sad over Jimmy. So what’s the point in waiting? “We could die tomorrow. Eat a rotten mushroom. Get murdered by the WHW. Starve. Meet horny cannibals. Anything could happen. Let’s make like Caesar and seize the fucking salad.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Yorke spends the entire afternoon in the gym. He sprints on the treadmill like he’s mad at it, lifts weights like they just took a poop on his pillow.”
― Imogen Keeper, Found

“There is no control of the situation.” “I know but …” “Frankie, do you know how many Americans there are?” “Around three hundred and ninety million.” “Four hundred and twenty-six million. And they’re all sick now. Hospitals are done. Doctors and nurses are staying home if they’re not already dead. They’re advising sick people to treat themselves with over-the-counter fever reducers, stay hydra—” “I knew it! Hydration really is key.”
― Imogen Keeper, Broken

“Are you therapatizing me?”
“I’m friending you.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Her lips touch mine in the dark. “I spend a lot of time straddling you.” My fingers thread through her hair. “Hands down. No lie. My favorite part of the apocalypse.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“The George W. Bush Center for Intelligence.”
― Imogen Keeper, Broken

“I hate you one tiny grain-of-salt sized minuscule of an itty bit less.”
― Imogen Keeper, Found

“All we are is a bunch of choices. One after another. A pile-up of all the choices we make. You didn’t make a single bad choice back there.”
― Imogen Keeper, Lost

“Let’s just stay here for an eternity or two.”
― Imogen Keeper, The Bonding

“In that second, I know a fact. A woman can love a child who isn’t her own, who she didn’t raise, and who she’s only known for a couple months. And that fact swans a second one. A woman can love two men. Loving Yorke takes nothing from Jimmy.”
― Imogen Keeper, Found

“Maybes,” she says, “are torture games we play to harness sense out of nonsense and order out of chaos.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“The sky opened wide to vast and velvety blackness punctuated by tremulous stars. The bright, swirling red moon rode the top of the sky. Only Tora, the smaller of the two gray moons, was visible, hanging grim and freckled along the horizon like a fat, ripe fruit. A breeze tugged at her hair, cooling the sweat that had beaded along her forehead.”
― Imogen Keeper, The Bonding

“Maybes aren’t torture when you think them into the future. It’s the maybes of the past that burn.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“Shadows pool in his shirt along the deep ridge of muscles flanking his spine”
― Imogen Keeper, Lost

“Her voice was so soft and when he pulled back to see her face, her eyes were so luminous that his heart cracked anew, tore a hole right through his sternum. Their bond swelled. He kissed her for a long time, maybe hours, maybe years. Time stopped.”
― Imogen Keeper, The Bonding

“Love is real. So are choices. So third time, Frankie. For the win, charm-time, last time, get your listening ears on, light of life, my someday sunshine lover—”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“One of her sandals had broken. It hung, hopeless, from her left ankle. They hadn’t been designed for frantic running through the forests. They were for dancing on the terraces outside the palace, for strolling manicured paths through the Red Gardens. They were designed to be pretty and useless. Like her.”
― Imogen Keeper, The Bonding

“We shared chores and thoughts and goals and decisions. I’ve never had that. Not even with Jimmy. He made all the decisions, and I just rolled with it because I was lazy, and he wasn’t. But with Yorke, it’s different. We’re a team. And I feel like I’m an equal-value member of the team.”
― Imogen Keeper, Lost

“- [ ] Without bugs, there are no fruits or vegetables, so I will court the crap out of the bees and the butterflies. I will seduce them with flowery-sweet nectar and scintillating aromas until they bow to my whims and pollinate my vegetables like horny rabbits.”
― Imogen Keeper, After the Plague

“I’d love to write it off, say she turned me into a woman after all, but that’s not it. She turned me into a man. She woke me up. I was dead before her. She brought me to life one text at a time.”
― Imogen Keeper, Talk Dirty To Me

“Yorke’s okay. I don’t know whose arms hold him, but we’re in this together.”
― Imogen Keeper, Lost

“Life gave me a big, fat, shitty, rotten Armageddon of a lemon, and I didn’t make a useless cup of lemonade with it. I cut the fucker open, germinated its seeds, and grew my own damned not shitty, not-rotten, not-Armageddon garden patch full of lemons.”
― Imogen Keeper, Safe

“His sweater clings to the muscles that flank his lean spine.”
― Imogen Keeper, Broken

“It took an apocalypse for me to know peace, and what that says about me, I have no clue, but there it is.”
― Imogen Keeper, Haven

“It’s not every day you kill a man for the first time.”
― Imogen Keeper, Lost