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Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1) QUOTES

Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1) QUOTES

1 " They became one, and Mackey could breathe. Trav was a part of him, and Mackey had strength. Trav moved, and Mackey’s body became light and Trav’s body became sound and together they were the thing Mackey worshipped most.
Music. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

2 " I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

3 " I’m trying to follow all the steps and check all the boxes. But my heart hurts and my skin aches, and God, I just want to be touched…….Can you touch me and then look at me tomorrow, and it will be okay? "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

4 " Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

6 " the IV needle. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

7 " Trav held him, thinking only, Thank God. Thank God. He’ll take me and not the drugs. Me and not the horrible fall. Thank God. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

8 " Yeah, but I didn’t like him and you still did it! "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

9 " Your ass is trying to make shit into diamonds,” Mackey snapped, "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

10 " or not, he’d just sold his soul to Mackey James for the price of a shower curtain and a bottle of lube. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

11 " He wants to keep me happy and he wants to keep me fed, he makes sure that I’ve got blankets and a place to sleep in a bed, but the music in my heart is like a freight train. It goes and it goes and when I stop it, it’s like pain, but my brother doesn’t see it doesn’t hear it doesn’t feel it, and all there is to do is shove him out of the way. Don’t want to hit my brother with the freight train. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

12 " God, it’s gorgeous when you do that,” he said, his voice choked. “Do what?” Mackey asked, not able to stop staring at him. “Pull music out of the air,” Grant "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

13 " Climax was a roaring, gentle thing from the pit of his stomach. Trav’s body in his arms should have grounded him, but instead they flew, flew together, and Trav’s groan against Mackey’s shoulder, the hot spurt of his come in Mackey’s ass, that was the crescendo, the soaring of the heavens against his face, the ocean roaring of the wind in his ears. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

14 " But he carried that thing, that pixilated fuck-off-and-love-me thing into the music. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

15 " Gay porn is for gay men and straight women, I’m not telling you something you don’t know. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

16 " And then crumpled on a muffled shriek, because he’d hit a stud in a load-bearing wall and broken three bones in his wrist and hand. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

17 " Not every day is going to be this good.” Trav kissed his chest. “No,” he said softly. “Let’s make sure we remember this one, okay?” “For how long?” Trav asked, half-playful, half-serious. “Forever. Until tomorrow. When I fall in love with you again. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

18 " Cause when they’re pissed at me, at least they know I’m there,” Mackey said. “You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can’t do that when someone wants to slug you. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

19 " That the person in my skin was so plain to someone else, I didn’t expect it. How is it you can see the guy I’ve hidden mostly from myself? "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)

20 " Nobody had it under control. Nobody had it buttoned down all the time. Sometimes all you could do was play pretend. And the people who looked at him on the stage and pretended were just as bare on the inside as Mackey, who got lost in the music on the stage for the very same reason. "

― Amy Lane , Beneath the Stain (Beneath the Stain, #1)