Bad Idea (Itch #1) QUOTES

2 " Pop culture. Nobody does bullshit better than us. Right? China took over manufacturing. And the Middle East has us on fossil fuels. That's just geography and politics. We're a nation of whacko immigrants. Scavengers and con men. We crossed the ocean on faith, stole some land and stone-cold made up a whole country out of nothing but balls and bullshit. Superhero comics got invented by crazy genius Jews who showed up and revamped the refugee experience into a Man of Steel sent from Krypton with a secret identity. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

4 " She held up three hangers inside a vinyl garment bag and hooked them sideways on the coatrack to unzip. "Raw silk. Vintage. Sort of a purple-black."

"Aubergine," he declared and cracked the opening wider.

"I love a man who can make colors sound dirty." She grinned.

"Cross-dyed." He wondered if Trip had helped pick this out, if he'd seen her model it and convinced her to splurge. "Great suit."

"I gotta stand next to J.R. Ward. Feel me?" She fluttered her short nails at him. "Baby, I went and bought a pair of Givenchy boots I cannot even afford because the Warden is gonna be there in full effect, and you know what that means!"

He didn't really, but he got the gist. "So you want nighttime for daytime."

"Extra vampy, hold the trampy. Like, more Lust For Dracula than Breaking Dawn." Rina squeezed her shoulders together to amp her cleavage. "If I'm hauling the girls out, no way can I do sparkly anorexia. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

6 " Never make a permanent mistake to solve a temporary problem. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

8 " Ugh!" Rina shook her head. "Men are so fucking stubborn."
"Only when they're right...." He shrugged. "Or wrong. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

10 " I missed you." A humorless laugh closed his eyes. When he opened them, the redness had turned them deep mossy green.
"Sorry." Trip's own eyes welled up.
"Not like, gosh-I-wonder-what-Trip-is-doing missed you. I meant I actually started to feel like I'd survived some horrible amputation and part of me had been hacked off and lost in a haunted warzone being gnawed by the walking dead. I missed you because you were missing. I actually spent weeks trying to imagine what you were doing at any given Moment... obsessing, really." He didn't wipe his wet cheeks. "Trip must be seeing the new Superman this weekend. I wonder if Trip's asleep. I wish I could swallow Trip's load right this second. Trip needs to stop and eat now, something not dyed or in plastic. I even went to watch the Big Dog office doors a couple of times, like the Little Match Queer, when I knew you had pages due, just to make sure, you were okay, but then you... I dunno: vanished. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

12 " After the first week, I worried that I would forget moments, and so I drew them. Everything I could think of, every angle. I dreamed about you. And I tried to capture you so I wouldn't lose a single second of a single moment, because what if I never got to have them again? "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

14 " You can't lose what you never had, you can't keep what's not yours, and you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to stay "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

16 " As the gay friend in these situations, he always ended up in the corner holding someone’s purse. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)

18 " Trip Spector, don’t you put words in my mouth. You’re not a freak. You are a-lone. You been by yourself for so long, you expect everyone to play by rules you made up in your head and wrote in invisible ink. "

― Damon Suede , Bad Idea (Itch #1)