Amy Bellows > Quotes

“So apparently, The Prince is a sex god. Good to know.”
― Amy Bellows, Omega from the Ocean

“It may sound stupid, but there is nothing more romantic than an alpha admitting he went to therapy for our relationship.”
― Amy Bellows, Wicked

“Cy, you’re in heat. Why didn’t you tell me? I”
― Amy Bellows, A Home for Ben

“We talked about Batman during our first conversation. It was very awkward. I blame you.”
― Amy Bellows, Wild Match

“That’s why I signed up for the Perfect Match Agency. It was to soothe the pain of rejection from a cat.”
― Amy Bellows, Wild Match

“Grief is a greedy thing. It swallows everything in your life whole. (p. 22)”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I flip to the last page. It has only six words. “You’re pregnant with my baby now.”
― Amy Bellows, A Pebble for Lewis

“Grief is a greedy thing. It swallows everything in your life whole. Not just happiness and joy, but also desire.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“he’s texted me several times a day all through the week. Just little things like “good morning” and “I miss you, please send me a photo?” and “I meant of your face” when I send him a picture of my ass.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I'm also fascinated by their relationship. What would it be like to date a man who buys you an orgy in a strip club as a gift?

What would it be like to date a man who wants an orgy in a strip club as a gift? They're both so lucky.”
― Amy Bellows, Fairy Daddy

“I’m not allowed to have any books about sex in the official collection. The patriarchy has deemed anything that could educate a teen omega about safe sex off limits.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“How long are they going to stay?” Jack winces. “Forever?” Wow. You invite one merman into your home, and you get three others for free.”
― Amy Bellows, Omega from the Ocean

“But inviting Art to dinner feels like staying up too late to finish a good book. You know you’re going to hate yourself in the morning, but the thrill of what happens next is too sweet to pass up. So you keep reading and reading until you reach the last page.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“If an alpha penguin shifter wishes to leave his mate, he must offer a neck price, which is a financial compensation for the place his pebble will always have on his ex-mate’s neck. The day my neck price came in the mail, I cried for a long time. Then I wiped my eyes and used the money to open my own grocery store.”
― Amy Bellows, An Egg for Ansel

“We all tell ourselves hopeful lies to survive. We claim it doesn’t hurt when someone insults us, that we don’t need our family if they don’t treat us the way they should, or that we’re fine when we really, really aren’t. Over time, some of these lies can become true. We can rise above insults from petty people. We can find connections as deep as family among our friends. We can even figure out how to be fine after hitting rock bottom if we’re given enough time to heal.”
― Amy Bellows, All Revved Up

“There’s an alarming splash beneath me. Damn it all. The books on the bottom shelf aren’t going to recover from this.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“I just wish we could be dads in a less dramatic fashion," I say.

Gray laughs. "It's Revv. What were you expecting?”
― Amy Bellows, All Revved Up

“In times of struggle, the arts are always what our cultures cut first. Art is the mark of any rich society. It’s only when you have a full belly that you use resources for paint, fabric, or any of the other expensive things art is made from. Including time. That’s perhaps the most expensive thing of all.”
― Amy Bellows, An Egg for Ansel

“I close my eyes with the rightness of that statement. That’s when I trust it—the concept of yellow. The act of telling Art “not yet” or “not now” is foreign to me. It’s not something you say to a one-night-stand. I smile with the realization that Art isn’t a one-night-stand anymore.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“You are responsible for the impact you have on people, regardless of what your intentions are.”
― Amy Bellows, Snuggleslut

“I played pinochle with my grandmothers. I thought I was the only person under the age of sixty who knew how to play. He also used the Oxford comma. That has to mean something, doesn't it?”
― Amy Bellows, A Handkerchief for Kade

“Tradition sometimes leaves people behind because there isn’t space for people to be different.”
― Amy Bellows, Snuggle Season

“Its normal to be overwhelmed when you finally learn that your feelings have names.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby

“Kade, you are not clean, quiet, or willing to go to bed at a reasonable hour. And the only reason you don't drink is because you can't afford alcohol.”
― Amy Bellows, A Handkerchief for Kade

“Maybe devotion and passion are simply two sides of the same coin, and neither of our cultures have been able to see it because we’ve been too busy hating each other. The problem with prejudice is that it doesn’t teach you anything except the limitations of your own mind.”
― Amy Bellows, An Egg for Ansel

“Wait. Let’s talk about this.” I stab into his pillow. “Okay, cool. So, we’re not going to talk about it.”
― Amy Bellows, A Pebble for Lewis

“They’re never a means to an end. They’re the kind of orgasms you write poetry about.”
― Amy Bellows, The Accidental Everything

“This whole time, the pit wasn’t bottomless. I was just dating men who were too lazy to fill it. They told me I was asking for too much—that my needs were so enormous, they shouldn’t be expected to meet them. They let me suffer so they didn’t have to try as hard.”
― Amy Bellows, Wild Match

“This is why only one of us is married. This. Right here.”
― Amy Bellows, Wild Match

“Five years is a long time to stop living because someone you love is dead.”
― Amy Bellows, The Bookmobile Baby