James Buchanan > Quotes

“Know what the best thing about morning sex is?" Caesar snorted and pinched Nate's hip.
"Sex?"
"No," Nate laughed, "nobody has to sleep on the wet spot.”
― James Buchanan , The Good Thief

“Suck me off in the car on the way over and you call me horny?" Nate growled again. "Get out of those fucking jeans!”
― James Buchanan, The Good Thief

“Something just ain't right about thanking the Lord for sending you an opportunistic pretty boy who carried a string of condoms and single use packets of lube in his pocket. Still, I did it.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I kissed him for a long, long while. My hands wrapped on either side of his face pinned him and wouldn't let him pull away. I didn't want Kabe to ever pull away from me. Let the mountains fall and the stars burn out, I'd never let him go.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Suck my balls, rim me like a pro, then stick your prick up my ass, and you got a problem with the word 'fuck'? Man, you got issues.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Fuck, he couldn’t. But Brandon knew that he’d never forgive himself if he didn’t do everything in his power. Even if it failed, he had to try. It had to be worth it. “Jeff.” He swallowed his fear. “You asked me today if this relationship I’m in was the one…well it is. And the chick I’ve been seeing, the one from San Diego, she ain’t no gal. I can’t lose Nicky. I’m going to lose him. I got nothing if you don’t help.”
― James Buchanan, Cheating Chance

“My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I knew-exactly-the moment I fell for him. "When we're up on the mountain getting ready to go down for that woman's body, you remember, you smiled at me." It was like the sun hat touched the earth and been born in his body. "That's when I think I really lost my reason.”
― James Buchanan, Spin Out

“I may not believe in God, but I believe in the Wow! That day you kissed me on the ledge, that was it." A light, like I'd seen in the eyes of those testifying on their faith, it lit him up.
"We're tiny out there. In a million years what we do ain't going to matter worth shit and that's still going to be there. I think the Wow will make it better.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“So have you found God?"

I thought Kabe was going to swallow his straw.

""So have you found God?"

I thought Kabe was going to swallow his straw.



I had no idea what was about to come out of his mouth.

"Joe's been talking to me about religion. Out alone, having some real deep, personal conversations. I think Joe has figured out how to get right inside me and know what I need.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“Because," I tried to tame that whole whirlwind into a sentence, "when you smiled at me right then, I saw something."
I'd seen more than just something, I'd seen a possibility of everything.”
― James Buchanan, Spin Out

“It ain't nothing but you and the heavens and they're so big and so bright that you realize just how little some things matter. And then sometimes, you realize how much little things matter.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“For a moment my heart stopped beating. “It’s not the fall you know.” His breath was all warm on my cheek. “It’s that sudden stop at the end that does it.” Just before I kissed him, I whispered, “I hope it doesn’t hurt much.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You come to me three, four months ago, knowing it, and I might have said you're right. God meant me to not love anyone. Be a rock. Don't be touched by no one. But now I've been touched, in here." I tapped my chest. "There is no fear in love, but love casteth out fear.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You scratch my back, I scratch yours."
The smile faded into a leer.
"No, you suck my dick, I'll suck yours.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I may not believe in God, but I believe in the Wow! That day you kissed me on the ledge, that was it.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“We don't love a God who puts people in a position where they never can love.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“There is a big difference between wishing you was doing something and the actual getting it done. And this wasn't no back room in a bar or glory hole where I didn't even have to look at who I was with. This was Kabe.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“The only thing I ever did wrong was what I did right...
loving someone like Kabe.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“See, look, you don’t know how black it got.” I stepped up next to him. Didn’t touch him, but my voice dropped low. “I’d get so, I don’t know, but I’d get to a point where I’d head into Vegas, maybe meet up with Dev and go hunting tail.” I’d never, ever told nobody what I was telling him. “It felt so desperate. I’d come home and well, while I didn’t have blue balls anymore, I probably felt worse than when I left.”
― James Buchanan, Spin Out

“We'd gone at it like jackrabbits the night before...hard and fast. This felt nine kinds of different. Relaxed, familiar, comfortable-scared me to my bones.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I know you, you believe that God tests people and you have to have faith that things are going according to His plan.."
"God is not in my bedroom." That was just nine kinds of wrong.”
― James Buchanan, Spin Out

“That's when the bear in me came out-and not like those internet picture types of furry chests needing to shed the winter pounds...more the grizzly that eats crazy climbers for lunch species.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“You can just take your prejudice and shove it where the sun don't shine."
One of the hardest things I've ever said. Took every ounce of will in my body to get it passed my teeth.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful.

Overwhelmed.

Lost.

Falling.

My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me, turned my face into his chest. My eyes burned, my chest seized and I bawled like a baby.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“New experiences, what my Grams says, keeps us from going bat-shit in old age.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall

“The addition of the law was not intended to alter either the ground or the method of a sinner's justification by substituting obedience to the law for faith in the promise; for the law which was originally 'ordained unto life' was not found, by reason of sin, 'to be unto death'; but it was now 'added', and promulgated anew with awful sanctions amidst the thunderings and lightnings of Sinai to impress the Jews, and through them the church at large, with a sense of the holiness and justice of him with whom they had to do; of the spirituality and extent of that obedience which they owed to him; of the number and heinousness of their sins; and of their utter inability to escape the wrath and curse of God otherwise than by taking refuge in the free promise of his grace.”
― James Buchanan, Buchanan: The Doctrine of Justification

“I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah.”
― James Buchanan, Hard Fall