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How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1) QUOTES

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1) QUOTES

1 " You can stop waiting, you know,' she says. 'For what?' 'For God to strike you down. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

2 " He’s cu-ute.” Bree LaRue stumbles sideways, shielding her eyes with one hand. “Aww, look at his hair. And the chin! He’s like Laurence Olivier, and a cockatoo. Like if they had a baby? "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

3 " Well, who doesn't love a good mpreg?"
"A what?"
"Sim gets man-pregnant? Gives birth to twins during a tornado?"
"I'll pretend I never heard that."
"Here, I'll read you the wedding one -"
"NO. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

4 " Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

5 " I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

6 " Status: Naked. On bed. With boy. Systems overheating. Sudden doubts multiplying. Meltdown imminent. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

7 " Abel snores pornographically, like a prince sleeping off an orgy. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

8 " God is like junior high, Brandon. Graduate already. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

9 " I can tell I'm being annoying, the kind of annoying where it feels like I haven't showered for days and everyone should just stay away. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

10 " It’s fandom, Bran. Getting butthurt over nothing is practically a sacrament. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

11 " You can't stay fucked up forever, can you? You need to start putting yourself out there and getting humiliated like the rest of us. Only then will you be a Real Boy "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

12 " You've thrown a lot of pennies in ponds," she says. "Haven't you. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

13 " His eyes trace the droplets branching down my chest.
They stop at my waistband.
“Brandon. Cutie.”
“Yeah.”
“You’re still wearing your boxers.”
“I am.”
“Is there something you need to tell me?”
“No.”
“Are you actually a Ken doll?”
“Nope.”
“Is your dad a secret superhero and you have a bionic penis and you make up this big religious-paranoia back story because it shoots laser beams and has the strength of a bulldozer?”
“Yes.”
“I knew it. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

14 " ... Brandon's going to talk to a B-O-Y, and -"
"What?"
"That's your assignment tonight. You converse in public with a boy. You've heard of them, right? They're like girls, but with penises? "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

15 " I mean, if no one knows for sure what God's like, then why don't you just believe the people who think he's all rainbows and sunshine and loves you no matter what? "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

16 " I've never seen a naked torso that wasn't on a cross, at least not so close up. I don't know where to look. His belly button. Belly button. Look at the belly button. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

17 " And when you’re a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It’s like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you’re disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you’re doing. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

18 " My secret is cool and mysterious like a jagged scar across my chest, and not dull and heavy like I gave up church buy not the angst. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

19 " Dude, can I have your pickle? "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)

20 " Entering the ball is like crashing on a planet where no one cares how you dress or how you dance or who you love. "

― J.C. Lillis , How to Repair a Mechanical Heart (Mechanical Hearts, #1)