Matthew J. Metzger > Quotes

“Jayden’s brain stalled. He just called you fit! the voice shrieked. It was beside itself. He just called you fit! That settles it, he’s gay, gay as a christening robe, now get your head out of the sink and kiss him! “Um,” he said instead. “You get brain freeze under there?”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Vivaldi in the Dark

“If you act like Beatriz is going to get hurt by something, she’ll pick up on it and get scared of it, too. Or you can act like she’s got superpowers and can take on the world, then so will she.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Erik the Pink

“You loving me, that’s heavy. I’m not the kid anyone ever relied on. Not my folks, not Lizzie, not the other kids at school, and I thought not you. I’m not special to anyone, never have been. It’s not what I am.
I’m everyone’s summer. I’m the kid that they can mess about with, have a fling with, know for a bit, whatever, then move on and out and up and not have to worry about any backlash or anything. I’m that kid, to everyone. And that should include you.
Only somehow it doesn’t include you.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Our Last Summer

“I am part of your summers,” Alex says. “I’m part of this world, out here, in the middle of nowhere, with the sun and midnight wanderings and little secrets that don’t mean anything. I’m not part of that world: of your autumn or winter or spring. I’m not there.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Our Last Summer

“I’ve loved you for a long time, and I love you now, and I may well love you when all the summers end.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Our Last Summer

“Look, I’m just saying…This,” Darren waved a hand between them, “isn’t going to be fun. I’m not going to be fun. Maybe every now and then I’ll be in the right place in my head to have silly dates out and go to parties with you, but there’s going to be days when I don’t want to know either of us exist, and there’s going to be days when I’m too tired to play because I’ve been up all night destroying my room, and…and I can’t promise…I can’t promise that I won’t. You know. Stop.” Jayden’s breath caught. “Stop, as in…” “As in, chapel, Friday morning, flowers to Granelli and Sons.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Vivaldi in the Dark Box Set

“You made the summers a little more colourful, like the stars were a bit closer.”
― Matthew J. Metzger, Our Last Summer