Anne Tenino > Quotes

“Sam. I've got news for you. Not every childhood trauma can be healed by finding the right penis."

Sam looked devastated. He opened and closed his mouth, eyes wide, then suddenly slumped back against the railing, unable to support himself anymore. "You mean," his voice was barely a whisper. "All those romance novels lied?”
― Anne Tenino, Whitetail Rock

“He made me pick a safe word." Nik peeked between his fingers. Sam's mouth was hanging open.
"Oh." Sam's voice was a whisper. More of the throat clearing. "What did you pick?"
Not the question he'd been expecting. Nik looked up at Sam from under his hand.
"Lemonade."
"Lemonade?" Nik nodded. "Do you like lemonade?"
"Does it matter? Yes, I like lemonade."
"Shouldn't you have picked something you didn't like, to make sure there were no, um, inadvertent exclamations at an important moment?"
He dropped his hand and stared at Sam. "Who screams out 'lemonade' in the middle of sex?"
Sam blushed. Nik was momentarily grateful for his dark skin. "You'd be surprised," Sam mumbled.”
― Anne Tenino, Whitetail Rock

“Kyle had gone from confused and possibly hurt to a card-carrying
member of PFLAG. Literally; he’d shown Brad the card the other
day.”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“He turned to Matt and gave a huge smile, one hand on her withers. James reached out and pulled Matt to him, and they stood there in a little circle. It felt disconcertingly like… a family reunion. Matt turned away from James‟s bright smile and looked at Miz in something akin to horror. Was she their… child? Miz nipped him. Hard. While snorting horse mucus all over him. Damn thing couldn‟t even blow her own damn nose. Would she ever grow up?”
― Anne Tenino, 18% Gray

“I got hard and he was there and the next thing I knew he was on his knees. I mean, I was going to step away, but he licked me.”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“I thought you wanted to leave me." Jurgen sounded dazed.
Nik patted his chest. "My poor, big, dumb asshole." He sighed, kissing Jurgen's neck. "Why didn't you just ask me?"
Nik could feel the dumbfounded rising up from Jurgen's skin. "I don't know," he said slowly. "I didn't need to ask you if I knew how to fix it."
"Oh, Jurgen." Nik patted him some more, petting his sternum. "We could probably spend a few years and thousands of dollars in psychologist's fees figuring you out, couldn't we?”
― Anne Tenino, The Fix

“Why are all you hets all so intercourse-centric? There's a lot more to sex than sticking it in and wiggling it around.”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“It isn't true love until someone gets hurt.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he'd ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.”
― Anne Tenino, 18% Gray

“Macho and manly and stern and, oh man. Sam sighed. Guys like this were never gay. They were always the ones chasing the homos.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Good. So, I guess I should have a pet name for you.”
“You could call me laird,” Ian suggested, even though he wasn’t feeling like one right now.
Sam swirled fingers in his chest hair, then tugged lightly on it. “Can I call you laird bear?”
“Hell no.”
Ian felt Sam smile against his neck.
“No,” he repeated.
“Okay,” Sam said agreeably, still smiling.
“Fuck,” Ian muttered.
Sam giggled. It was cute.
“Let’s go to bed,” he said, nudging Sam with his arm. “This couch is too small.”
“Okay, laird. Bear.”
“Ha. Ha.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“James had been acting a little weird. After waking up yesterday, he'd been a little bit distant. It might just be the stress of the trip. It was probably hard on James to be in charge of the little group. He was responsible for the welfare of his lover, a nun, and a talking horse. That couldn't be easy.”
― Anne Tenino, 18% Gray

“The whole world heard you tell poor Angie Robinson that “Chris Edwards was your heart”—man, it’s one of the most fucking romantic things I’ve ever heard.”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“Married straight women could sense gay boy heartache like a shark could scent blood in the water.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Can you talk?” Nik hissed in his ear. Huh? “Mom says I started right after my first birthday. I pretty much have it down pat by now.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Ian, what you were before doesn’t have to define what you are now, or what you will be in the future.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Nik hit the stairs running, trying to get there before the bike's motor shut off.”
― Anne Tenino, Whitetail Rock

“James nuzzled his forehead and nose into Matt's chest. He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier then he'd ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.”
― Anne Tenino, 18% Gray

“This was more a booty-drop-by.”
― Anne Tenino, Whitetail Rock

“It was moments like this Sam wished he was a drinker. Or a runner. Maybe both. Not at the same time, though.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“the caviar of ball fetishists. Licking him there was a full-on mouthgasm.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Trevor was all over him, like a genie had granted Trevor three wishes and all of them were Paul.”
― Anne Tenino, Love, Hypothetically

“life. I’ve been sucked off in so many bathrooms, I bone up when I flush the toilet.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Brad got up and locked himself in the bathroom, surreptitiously carrying the hairbrush with the perfect handle. How was he going to explain the need to brush his hair at 2:38 a.m.?”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“Brad wondered where his dad learned a word like bisexual. The things they put on TV these days.”
― Anne Tenino, Frat Boy and Toppy

“-"What, if you know wha's going to happen (the end of a book), why read it?
"To find out how it happens”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Sam was a dorky, skinny, pale, unmuscled kid who’d tried to hit on a guy so far out of his league that Ian couldn’t see Sam due to the curvature of the Earth.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“And the chicken hawks.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live

“Was it his imagination that men in their thirties tasted differently? Aged like fine wine.”
― Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live