Emily Shacklette > Quotes

“His hair looks soft. I wonder if it is. I wonder if he'd let me run my hands through it, feel its silky smoothness on my skin. Ya know, for science.”
― Emily Shacklette, The Brotherly Shove

“I’m flustered. I’m touch-starved. I’m fucking my couch in my sleep and dreaming about Elliot grabbing me, holding me, making me come. I’ve never thought of myself as anything but straight before, but there is nothing heterosexual about the way I feel around Elliot Baker.”
― Emily Shacklette, Icing The Kicker

“Can I tell you a secret?” I ask quietly. My heartbeat picks up in my chest as I wait for Elliot’s nod to continue. “I know it’s only been a few days but…I feel less lonely since I met you, Elliot. You make me feel less lonely.” “Alex,” he sighs, blinking those green eyes in rapid succession, matching the flutter of my pulse. “You make me feel less lonely, too.”
― Emily Shacklette, Icing The Kicker

“I’ve never had so many warring thoughts over a simple peck of a kiss in my life. But then again, before Sunday, I’d never kissed another man before. I’d never kissed Elliot Baker before.”
― Emily Shacklette, Icing The Kicker