Ada Maria Soto > Quotes

“Finally, he raised his hand and touched his fingers to his forehead. "I can give you this." He lowered his hand and pressed the tops of his fingers to the center of his chest. "And I can give you this. But not the rest. It's not who I am. Or what I am.”
― Ada Maria Soto, His Quiet Agent

“Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.”
― Ada Maria Soto

“His supervisor sighed. "Agent Drams, no one knows who you are." "We're a black budget government agency. No one is supposed to know who we are." "To the general public yes, however, when your supervising agent and the promotion board have to ask 'who' at seeing your name and don't even recognize your picture, you need to show your admittedly somewhat generic face a bit more.”
― Ada Maria Soto, His Quiet Agent

“Arthur smiled at him and Martin felt like he was standing in a shaft of sun between rustling trees.”
― Ada Maria Soto, Merlin in the Library

“Why am I your friend?" he asked.

"Because you eat lunch with the weird kid in class. And every pretty gay boy needs a tough, hardcore lesbian in their corner and every tough lesbian needs a pretty gay boy for balance. It's in the rule book."

"I'm not that pretty."

"And I'm not that hardcore, but we make do.”
― Ada Maria Soto, His Quiet Agent

“I'm sure there's a culture somewhere where silently shoving finger food at
someone is an acceptable form of courting. Hobbits maybe.”
― Ada Maria Soto, His Quiet Agent

“Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.”
― Ada Maria Soto

“Between the tragedies and heroics there are the everyday banalities of war.”
― Ada Maria Soto, Eden Springs

“Sometimes it takes another doctor to explain 'those bruises are consensual, we're here about the bronchitis'.”
― Ada Maria Soto, Tactical Submission

“…They offered me structure, while staying within the bubble of my own mind.” – Martin
“Then I showed up and popped that bubble.” – Arthrur
“No. You sat quietly beside me until our bubbles merged into one.” –Martin”
― Ada Maria Soto, Agents of Winter

“Are those Pop Rocks on top of the bisexual cake?” “Yes.” “Why?” “Because it was three in the morning and I had Pop Rocks.”
― Ada Maria Soto, And Everything Nice

“Other people might look at you and think you are exposed. You are not exposed, you are safe. Others who don't understand might think you have no control. You have complete control. You have presented yourself to me, allowed this, like the most beautiful of gifts and you can take it back whenever you wish." Jack's breath hitched for a second. "So much strength and beauty in this. Others don't see it. I don't think you always see it, but I will show you. I will show you your own strength.”
― Ada Maria Soto, Tactical Submission