Damon Suede > Quotes

“Because people should not be punished for loving and hoping and holding their hearts open.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“It's a kilt, dumbass. It's only a skirt if I'm wearing underwear.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“[...]Are both of you...?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“You tell him for me: if he fucks with you, if he lays one Russian knuckle on you, your buddy is coming after him and someone's gonna need a screen door to fish out the pieces.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Just then Dante leaned against him, brow between his shoulder blades for a moment, so tentatively Griff held his breath. His voice was almost sheepish. “Nah. Everyone knows I was born defective. They didn’t instal you until later.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“People need space; families need air; love needs light. Like Mrs. Anastagio always said, ―You need enough rooms to love someone properly.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Your life needs an airbag. I swear, Anastagio, you should have come equipped when you were born.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“You‘re my best friend. You‘re the only somebody I got.”
― Damon Suede

“Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close.
"Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but she spoke first.
"Huh-yeah. Thanks, cockbreath.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.”
― Damon Suede, Bad Idea

“So damn jealous! Like I can see anyone but you.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Dante chuckled low. "There's my blush."”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“No. Look, the mutual tug paid extra.” Dante mimed jerking and squirting without looking embarrassed, which only made Griff more embarrassed. “And the
stuff you did at the end bumped our fee even—”
“I know, man. Sorry about—”
“—more. Bullshit, sorry! Blowing your jazz on me got us a three hundred dollar bonus. Didja know that?” Dante rolled his eyes and waved away the worry.
“Dude, if I could get a fee every time you squirted on me, I’d camp under your bed and have you doing it three times a day.”
Help me, Jesus.
Griff’s eyes honest-to-God bugged at that.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Everything was so nutty with Loretta, all her reactions. She used tantrums like most people used sedatives”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Griff groaned and covered Dante's loose mouth with his own, driving his tongue in to steal the stars from his eyes, the fire from his mind.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Love hurts.

Think back over romance novels you’ve loved or the genre-defining books that drive our industry. The most unforgettable stories and characters spring from crushing opposition. What we remember about romance novels is the darkness that drives them. Three hundred pages of folks being happy together makes for a hefty sleeping pill, but three hundred pages of a couple finding a way to be happy in the face of impossible odds makes our hearts soar. In darkness, we are all alone.

So don’t just make love, make anguish for your characters. As you structure a story, don’t satisfy your hero’s desires, thwart them. Make sure your solutions create new problems. Nurture your characters doubts and despair. Make them earn the happy ending they want, even better…make them deserve it. Delay and disappointment charge situations and validate character growth. Misery accompanies love. It’s no accident that many of the stories we think of as timeless romances in Western Literature are fiercely tragic: Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Cupid and Psyche… the pain in them drags us back again and again, hoping that this time we’ll find a way out of the dark.

Only if you let your characters get lost will we get lost in them. And that, more than anything else, is what romance can and should do for its protagonists and its readers: lead us through the labyrinth, skirt the monstrous despair roaming its halls, and find our way into daylight.”
― Damon Suede

“It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“I'll take Classic 69 and semen-swapping for $300”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“You can't lose what you never had, you cant keep what's not yours, and you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to stay.”
― Damon Suede, Bad Idea

“The smile on her face was almost Dante's. Tears pricked his eyes, then hers, while all those impossible things passed between them. While the truth was sending down roots and throwing out branches until it filled the silent room with impossible blossoms.
I love him.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Griff's pretty neat on his own. Scottish hedge!”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“He needed me to make it okay.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Because I love you!"

There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.

His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Never make a permanent mistake to solve a temporary problem.”
― Damon Suede, Bad Idea

“The world is different, but folks are the same, huh?”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“A man is just a life support system for assumptions.”
― Damon Suede, Grown Men

“Romance is the literature of hope.”
― Damon Suede