Alex Beecroft QUOTES

1 " So close now, Alec could read the make on his wetsuit, see the individual grains of sand that dusted
the black material, the drops of water trembling on the points of his hair. Now or never. But Alec couldn‟t,
couldn’t. Could he?
He stood up. “Stop!” His mouth dried out as the surfer‟s dark, dark green eyes looked into his, startled
and curious. Suddenly he felt an absolute fool. He was inviting a good kicking, at least. But damn it, a man
couldn‟t always be afraid.
“Don‟t go past. Please. Sit down and drink with me. If you go past… If you go past, I think I‟ll die. "

― Alex Beecroft , Shining in the Sun

2 " Ridiculous, that Finn had to be the one giving comfort. But it had been this way with Tom too. Arguments were tricky things for both sides to win if no one ever gave way first. There was something terribly domestic about the small sacrifice of ego, of first place. Sure, sex was a fine thing, but a fight at the end of which the pair of you were more lovingly entangled than ever, that was closer to being one flesh, one soul, than anything else. "

― Alex Beecroft , Trowchester Blues (Trowchester Blues, #1)

3 " Sex isn't everything. I love you because you're beautiful and caring and an incredibly strong person to go through so much and to come out of it still so generous and loving. I'm not losing that, not for anything. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

4 " The right to say no was a right he ought to exercise if he wanted his yes to mean something. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

5 " if sex could exist without love, it surely stood to reason that love could exist without sex. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

6 " To all the asexual activists out there without whom I would still be thinking of myself as merely weird, wrong, and slightly inhuman. In the hope that the more people talk about it, the fewer people there will be in the world who reach my age without knowing what they are. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

7 " He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple. "

― Alex Beecroft , Shining in the Sun

8 " Oh for heaven's sake," Carol cut in, putting a plate on the table for Aiden. starting to collect everyone else's and dump them in the sink. "He's asexual, that's all. Let's just have it out there and deal with it."
"He's what" Jame's mind immediately went to protozoa. He had top assume that they were not saying that Aiden reproduced by splitting into two identical copies. "What does that mean?"
"She's saying that Aiden loves you, but he doesn't want to have sex with out, And not because he is broken, but because he's part of a set of people who just don't do sex. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

9 " James tried to imaging a future in which he did not make love to Aiden, but in which they nonetheless shared the same house and slumbered innocently in the same bed and woke up every morning with that same bone-deep contentment he had felt this morning. Then he imagined a future that had no Aiden in it at all. It was no choice. No contest. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

10 " Aiden felt so safe he didn't even go to his room to weel, just covered hos eyes and let the fire's warmth and the warmth of tears mingle on his fingers.
Molly had clarified Carol's statement for him, explained that "ace" in his case probably meant "homo-romantic asexual. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

11 " What would [James} do now? Would he think to Aiden was too much trouble for too little reward? Would the sex matter to him so much that he would discout everything else in favour of it? Aiden didn't want to think so, hoped that James would see that love was so much more than that. What was so great about sharing fluids that looked like snot anyway? What did love have to do with that? But he know by now that ninety-nine percent of the population would call that opinion world. The mathematics of the situation were not in his favour. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

12 " He had never experienced a kiss like that before...
Now it read differently. What if Aiden hadn't been shy at all, but reluctant. The little stroke down his back, which he had taken for encouragement-could it have been something else? An attempt to calm him down, maybe?
Aiden hadn't pulled back unitl James had touched his throat... but even so...Aiden would only have had to say something and James would have stopped.
Did he know that though? Did he, after his experiences with Piers, have any reason to believe that? Was he in fact just bracing himself for something he believed was inevitable? (Yes) "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

13 " He’d thought he had to give Aidan up so that Aidan could find someone he genuinely desired, but if Aidan wasn’t capable of desire, then that changed everything. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

14 " Do you like fishing?"
James didn't know what to make of the non sequiter. "Not really."
"But if I wanted to go you'd go with me, you'd still come, wouldn't you? It's like that."
James didn't see how sex could possibly be like that, but Aiden knew his own mind best.
...
"I'm honoured you would do that for me. What can I do to make it up to you?"
"Make me a coffee in the morning?"
"That's all?"
Aiden shook his head, as if exasperated that they were coming up against a translation problem. "A coffee in bed first thing in the morning would really improve my day," he explained slightly sharp. "Sex isn't more important than that. You;d have to get up before me and go downstairs in the cold and boil the kettle while you were still bleary and zombified. If you did that for m, of course I would know that you loved me. It would be just the same. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)

15 " Who would have thought some doors only slammed shut temporarily; that when you turned to trudge away they could be flung open again, and love come pelting down the path, shouting for you to come back? "

― Alex Beecroft , False Colors

16 " There’s a kind of joy on Garnet’s face, and seeing it shifts everything inside my head. By gradual stages, like sailing out of a fog, the obstruction cleared, my confusion lightened, my shame thinned and lifted; I understood. Garnet needed no refuge, no hidden isle moated all around by impassable sea. Inside himself, where no one else could touch him, he had learned how to be free. How not to be ashamed. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blessed Isle

17 " No man is an island, entire of himself,” says John Donne, but two may be, together, needing nothing else. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blessed Isle

18 " They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices, properly matured. "

― Alex Beecroft , False Colors

19 " There wasn’t a lot of time to wait for Michael, but it made the most of itself, stretching like a rubber band, every second longer than the last. "

― Alex Beecroft , Trowchester Blues (Trowchester Blues, #1)

20 " Besides." Finn had a little smirk on. "The last thing Aiden needs right now is another protector. What he should do is have a year alone to work out who he is: To learn to be his own man for a change. He doesn't want to go to your house and end up your boy instead."
...
"I'm sure you'd be kinder as a master," Finn sneered, "but is that the arrangement you want? Even if it is, you can't have it until he's sufficiently his own man to be able to consent. I tell you this, if you take him in now as he is, it'll be abuse, no matter now nice you are about it."
And of course the worse thing about them was that they were right. "

― Alex Beecroft , Blue Steel Chain (Trowchester Blues, #3)