J.A. Rock > Quotes

“Cause with you, I was awake, and with you, I was alive, and with you, I'm brave.”
― J.A. Rock, When All the World Sleeps

“Those are mints! For your mouth! They’re my favorite kind of mints, and now I’ll never be able to enjoy them again because you’ve turned them into ass mints!”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“The most effective chains were simple. They were guilt and ghosts.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“We are not a coven."
"Kim's a witch."
"She's a vegan."
"What's the difference?”
― J.A. Rock, By His Rules

“The man read Eugene O'Neill on the beach. He had a stash of emergency pickle juice and a pet rat. He was hardly a model of stability.”
― J.A. Rock, Calling the Show

“That’s the scariest thing in the world to me. The idea that people will never ask anything more from me than mediocrity.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“It was really fucking hot,” Kamen whispered. “I know,” we all said, almost in unison. Kamen bowed his head. “I mean, he has, like, a doll-sized hand. But he hits really hard. And I wanted it.”
― J.A. Rock, Pain Slut

“Small talk is last refuge of the insecure.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“I want to be both for you: simple and a spectacle. I want to—to put on a show. But I need you to see me underneath. Whatever I wear or do or say, I want you to see me.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“I think I was rather designed to be alone.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“A little madness is good for the soul.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“Miles grumbled. “Well, stick to hot sauce or ginger in the future if you’re figging.”
Kamen strummed his guitar, coming up with the chords for “Killing Me Softly.”
“Figgin me softly with hot sauce,” he sang over the sounds of justice being served. “Figging me so-oftly, with hot sauce.”
“Buddy . . .” I warned.
“Filling my whole ass with his burn . . .”
I turned to Gould. “Do you believe this is happening?”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“And I loved the way that felt. That private battle, and the way I always caved in the end.
So maybe it was fucked up, but to me that was kind of the point of kink. Not the fucked-up-ness, exactly, but the fact that you got to piss on society’s idea of fucked up. And nobody could stop you. Finger-waggers couldn’t storm your house and tell you it was wrong for one person to call another a kike or a cunt or a fag. Couldn’t stop you from taking a shit on your partner’s face. Couldn’t say you were weak or crazy for wanting to be dressed like a baby or walked like a dog. With kink, you had the power to be your sickest, most secret self.
Maybe one of my goals could be to make that sickness less secret.”
― j.a. rock, 24/7

“Ah, I did that just this morning. The sun shone as I walked, and I kept my head down and a bitter scowl on my face...it was perfection.” “I prefer to look jaunty as I walk, and as though there is naught between my ears but air.” “You do manage it well.” “I know. I have a wonderfully vacant face.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“It was not that he had never felt so alone in his life.
It was that this was the fist time he cared.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“He pointed at the paper. “I want you to write me a description of every foot you’ve put wrong since we met. Make sure I can read your writing. You have five minutes.”

Write about every foot I’d put wrong. I peered down at my feet.

I started to write: My left foot is a size eight point five. It has a high arch, and my big toe is longer than my second toe. There is a light smattering of hair on the top of my foot. I paused and stuck my left leg out, studying my shoe. Right now I am wearing Nike Frees for m—
“Bring me your paper.”
I glanced at my paper. “I’m not done yet.”
“One . . . two . . .”
I brought him the paper.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“It felt more difficult, the older I got, to connect with others. People didn’t seem as wonderful and amazing and unique as they had when I was in college. And being around the kind of people who didn’t seem to care who I was or what I wanted in life, like my coworkers, made me feel lonelier than actually being alone.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“I actually like 'the Subs Club' as a name."
Kamen nodded. "We're like the Baby-Sitters Club. Except instead of babysitting, we're face-sitting."
"Kamen, gross.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“More often than not, the moves he made during an investigation were based on feelings. Wretched things, feelings—though they were certainly preferable to sentiments.”
― J.A. Rock, A Case for Christmas

“Welcome," she said flatly. "You are aware that the dildo iron maiden is bring your own didos?"

We held up our bag of dildos.

"And that there are no actual spikes or blades of any type allowed in the iron maiden?"

"Did somebody really try that?" Drix asked.

BellaSade nodded tiredly. She gestured to the open chamber. "As you can see, the iron maiden has steps inside so that you can impale yourself on different dildos on different levels. Any projections near the eyes or ears must be no longer that four inches and completely blunt. This is the signal hole. " She indicated a large hole in the side of the iron maiden. "If you need to safe signal use that. That--" she pointed to another large hole in the back -- "is the grope hole. Please do not signal through the grope hole or grope through the signal hole.”
― J.A. Rock, Pain Slut

“This is your last chance to go home, son.” It was the loudest I’d heard him speak.
I froze.
Cock, meet jeans. Jeans, please contain cock.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“The subject is a rake by the name of Slyfeel. His arms are as thickly muscled as a horse’s hindquarters, and something else of his is comparable to a horse’s as well.”
“Gale. We cannot discuss this here.”
“Would you like me to stop?”
“No, I must know more.”
― J.A. Rock, A Husband for Hartwell

“I might walk for hours in a strange city, letting myself get lost in it.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“I'm definitely not going to be graced with a suitable partner," Miles grumbled.
I plucked at his cardigan. "Well, maybe if you didn't come to a fetish party dressed like Mr. Rogers. Are you here to get your ass beat or catch a trolley to the Neighborhood of Make Believe?”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“Make me fucking listen to you, I’d shouted at him the night of the crossword.
But that wasn’t exactly what I’d meant.
Make me listen to me. Make me do the things I know I need to do.
The lists are fine. They’re fun. But I need you to make me do more than stand on a mat. I need you to push me to do more than take a paddling.”
― J.A. Rock, The Subs Club

“…if a fellow wished to be taken for an idiot, it was best to surround himself with true idiots.”
― J.A. Rock, A Sanctuary for Soulden

“Maybe with the right person rocking it with you, change wasn’t so bad.
Maybe panties and kale juice were just the beginning.”
― J.A. Rock, Manties in a Twist

“I think there are many things in life, many choices that we made, that cannot be boiled down to the bare bones of an equation. We are men; we make mistakes. We hurt others and we hurt ourselves.”
― J.A. Rock, An Affair for Aumont

“He glared at his mother’s back as she went through his bureau. “Why did you invite Chant for tea?” His mother sighed and turned, holding a dressing gown. She tossed it to him. “I suppose it’s too much to ask you to dress correctly, but I am old fashioned enough to believe one ought to at least cover one’s nipples before taking tea with friends.”
― J.A. Rock, A Case for Christmas

“Do you know what Plato said about love?”
....
“He said, ‘Love is born into every human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.’”
“Is that a fancy way of saying you love me, Jamesy?”
“Well, you already know that I love you, so rather it was a fancy way of saying that we fit together perfectly.”
Harold winked. “We do.”
James laughed at Harold’s grin. “No, I did not mean in that way!”
― J.A. Rock, A Scandal for Stratford