Top 40 Amy Lane Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You don’t love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can’t help it.”

— Amy Lane

2. “People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.”

— Amy Lane

3. “And the storm was my nemesis, my goddess, my salvation.”

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4. “When you get to that point where you notice a person’s faults, you’ve got to decide if you can live with them or can’t live without them.”

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5. “Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you’re making your plans.” Tino.”

— Amy Lane

6. “Don’t worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that’s who’s good enough for you.”

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7. “Every heartbeat screams your name.”

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8. “If I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful for you.”

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9. “I’d die for him!” And he would. Say the word, there’s Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.”

— Amy Lane

10. “All’orizzonte, le stelle erano visibili in una scia chiara contro il lucido nero e le nubi afose, all’apparenza morbide, e l’acqua nera del fiume erano un rilievo nero sul letto di luce che giocava nell’acqua, lasciando che il mondo intero, il loro mondo, divenisse un capolavoro in bianco e nero.”

— Amy Lane

11. “Oh gods, are you listening? A storm out at sea is one of your greatest creations. You should hear it praised. The sky is dark, almost as night, and the swells... they were taller than mountains.”

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12. “I love you. I want to shout it sometimes. I know you worry about our letters and texts getting read – shades of WWII, haunting us still, I guess, and I’m well aware that nothing’s safe on the internet. I worry too. You need to know that when I say it, when I ask you to say it, it’s because my lungs feel full of dark water, and seeing it or writing it lets me breathe.”

— Amy Lane

13. “Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future.”

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14. “Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.”

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15. “Well, therapy was cheap and easy if you didn’t mind walking it in the snow to poop.”

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16. “They made love until Chris had to leave for the airport, without sleeping at all. After Chris had left, wearing wrinkled jeans and Xander’s sweat and seed on his skin, Xander flopped back onto the bed and looked miserably at the clock.”

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17. “He journeyed, in this climax, from the boy who was afraid to need, to the man who trusted he could.”

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18. “One glimpse of that glistening, tan back, those rangy shoulders, the sweat-slicked black hair, and his libido woke up and started to pray to Cialis, goddess of horny middle-aged men.”

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19. “God. No wonder it was so easy. He’s been bleeding since he was a baby. He just never told anyone. How do you even know it hurts after all that time?” Because you loved me, and I knew what it meant to feel.”

— Amy Lane

20. “Kaden gave another one of those unexpected barks of humor. “Yeah. And I’m telling you, my sister is a shameless, shameless woman, and she swears by the guy in bed. If you ever feel like taking that stick out of your ass, you may want to rethink your stand on him. I understand he’s like a religious experience.”

— Amy Lane

21. “I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try.”

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22. “Being loved can do marvelous things for a man.”

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23. “He wasn’t sure which one of them initiated the kiss, but it started soft and then went sweet and then went tender and then went tinder, and then went out-of-control blaze.”

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24. “I’ve loved him since I’ve known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.”

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25. “You cannot take a person’s humanity and then retain your own.”

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26. “It was... it was like all the girls I was with. They were fun, and I liked their company, but their touch didn’t... didn’t make anything get warm. Didn’t make it pop or zing or ache.” The hand moved up to Talker’s neck, so that his pulse throbbed against Brian’s palm. “Didn’t make me feel any of the things I feel when you touch me or smile or... you know, sing in the shower or leave your shoes in the hallway or have conversations with the rat when you think I can’t hear you.”

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27. “I will always take you home,” he whispered, and Will framed his face with both hands and kissed him again.”

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28. “Anyone who says things like “Happy Ever After” as though that end to a love story is a given, is cooking up a right stinking cauldron of shite and trying to serve it as soup.”

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29. “Jackson rolled his eyes. “Yeah, well you’re not bad-looking, but you’ve got that stick up your ass and I always top. It’d get crowded, trust me.”

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30. “You’re the fantasy I never knew I had.”

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31. “Trav thought of the song – his song – and the cry from the invisible boy who slept in forgotten corners and lived to make people love him or hate him or anything so long as they didn’t forget his name.”

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32. “Shane! Shane! You must keep the boy from eating any more! You have no idea what will happen!” Collin was face to face with Martin’s father then, and they both heard Martin say, “You stay away from my eats, little man, or I will end you!” “You need to put that down, Martin, or you will never fit through another door!”

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33. “I’m starting to think being a grown-up isn’t going to school or even paying your own rent. It’s learning to fake it when you got no other choice.”

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34. “Where’s your goofy little dog?” “You watch Adventure Time?” Finn said, sounding delighted. “That’s awesome!”

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35. “Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.”

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36. “I didn’t have time to tell Bracken to care for her. I didn’t have time to tell Arturo that I knew why he was hard on me, and it was okay. I didn’t have time to tell Green that he was the sun and the moon and the stars. The Goddess gave me just enough time to feel her pain, to let her know I loved her. I had just long enough to say goodbye.”

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37. “I haven’t had a home in so long,” he said softly. “I – I want a home with you. I don’t want to leave you when you’re hurt, or fragile, Patrick. I want to be a guy worth making a home for.”

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38. “He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.”

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39. “The world isn’t made a better place by the unburdening of a heart.”

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40. “Nothing,” he said softly. “It’s just a real nice turtle, that’s all.” “You.”

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41. “Seriously, Jackson, you dropped a monster on our lap, and then a leviathan jumped out of the toilet and ate it.” Jackson chuckled a little at the image. “Well, it was a monster, Mira. Let’s hope the leviathan wins.”

— Amy Lane