Rhys Ford > Quotes

“I stole a bit of a chopped vegetable and was about to put it in my mouth when Jae’s long fingers closed over my wrist. “What? You can’t eat this raw?”

“It’s bitter melon. You won’t like it.” He went into the fridge and came out with something that looked halfway familiar. “Here, leftover bao. There’s char siu inside.”

“The red pork stuff? Yeah, I like that. I thought it was Chinese.”

“It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Kiss

“It's like a bad joke over here: a black woman, a Filipino transvestite, and a Korean ex-stripper walk into a gay man‟s house. All that's missing is a priest and a talking dog.” - Bobby Dawson”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Kiss

“She was a small cat, barely five pounds of black chinchilla fur and fangs, but Pearl Harbor envied her air-raid vocalizations.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“Mike didn't look dangerous. I knew better. I'd grown up with him. The bump on my nose was testament to the hardness of his fists. The only thing that saved me was he'd stopped growing at five-nine while I'd kept going for a few more inches. It didn't make me more intimidating. My height just meant I had longer legs to run away with.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Kiss

“I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

“I tried not to let my relief show. I’d been a passenger in Jae’s car a total of three times, and after each trip, I forced myself not to kiss the ground in thanks once I got free of the Explorer. He’d learned to drive in Seoul. Apparently, no one believed in turn signals or lanes in South Korea, because Jae drove like a drunk butterfly heading to its next fermented flower.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“People like my mom and Miki are like kites. They need the sky. They need the wind. Me and my dad? We’re the people holding the string. We’re their anchors to the earth. Miki and I can feel each other through the connection.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

“You should never play safe with your heart. It doesn’t get to grow if you don’t take it out. You break it. You give it away. And sometimes, you kind of hope someone gives it back to you—maybe wrapped up and taped but better because they held it for a little while.”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“You find any more dead bodies, someone would think you owned a mystery bookstore in Pasadena.”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“And lastly, I want to thank Harrison Ford. Because I can. And let's face it, he shaped as much of my world and imagination as anyone else I can think of. I owe him a hell of a lot.”
― rhys ford

“Men are—by nature—stupid creatures.

I think I can speak with some experience on this. Both as a man and well, a gay man. It's bad enough to be one of the stupid creatures. It's quite another to be attracted to them. Cursed at both ends: brain and dick.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“Sometimes, Miki, you’ve got to stop
building sand castles just to watch the ocean take
them away,” Kane murmured against his cheek.
“Sometimes, you just need to find someone to sit
on the beach with you.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

“Random fuckery is never random,”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“We were close enough to kiss, so close I could feel his warm breathon my mouth. I parted my lips, taking what he felt he could give me, inhailing the kiss he couldn't give me.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“Screaming Morgan in a cop house is like yelling for an Oompa Loompa in a chocolate factory. You guys pop up like gophers.

That's pretty much what dinner's like at our house, Kane acknowledged. Like a game of whack-a-mole.”
― Rhys Ford

“I… have an unnatural fondness for him, Duchess. One might even say that I love him. As a man should love a woman, really.”
“Well, I would imagine the mechanics of that would be different.”
― Rhys Ford, Clockwork Tangerine

“Fucking hell. Shit, sorry. I keep swearing—” “If you’re calling that swearing, Mum will teach you to do it proper,” Riley drawled. “You’re not even close to what she taught me in kindergarten so I could shock the nuns.”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“His squirming turned to near seizures, and he swung his arms, smacking me across the cheek. Of course it was the hand with the brick. I saw stars and rolled over. If Rocket got shot at, maybe he could deflect it with his brick, like Wonder Woman.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“With Damien’s back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination.”
― Rhys Ford, Whiskey and Wry

“And sometimes I just hug him because I know it pisses him off, and he can’t say shite about it.”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“I was as Asian as a bowl of corn flakes.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Kiss

“Follow yer heart, because no matter where it takes ye, the journey is worth it - especially if it's love.”
― Rhys Ford, Tequila Mockingbird

“I’m standing next to you, you fecking git. Because, damn me to hell for it, you’ll not walk away now. I won’t let you.”
― Rhys Ford, Whiskey and Wry

“Legends are very pretty but rarely touch on the important facts of life. Things like whether a 1969 red Mustang powered by a 351 Windsor can outrun a seventy-foot reptilian predator.”
― Rhys Ford, Black Dog Blues

“Baby, you’re so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret

“How about if you turn over, baby?" Wolf licked his way up Tristan's back to nibble at the spot between his shoulder blades. "And we can take turns working our way through these condoms my mom brought us.”
― Rhys Ford, Fish and Ghosts

“You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you.”
― Rhys Ford, Fish Stick Fridays

“God’s a parent. What loving parent would create a place of eternal torment for their children?”
― Rhys Ford, Fish and Ghosts

“I chose to ink myself… to ink others, because it speaks to me. I crave bringing a piece of another person up out to their skin with my art. To me, tattooing means I touch someone’s heart and find who they are, leaving it behind after I am done.”
― Rhys Ford, Dirty Laundry

“He’s going to get hurt. And he’s got to know you’re someone safe to come back to. He’s going to feel that in his bones. Just like I do. Because loving someone doesn’t mean needing them to be what you want them to be or swaddling them in bubble wrap so they can’t move. It means them knowing, deep down inside of their heart, you’re going to be there to hold them when they fall and celebrate when they fly.”
― Rhys Ford, Rebel