9 Quotes by Brooke McKinley

I worry about setting myself up to fail, about letting people down. If I don’t try for a better life, then I don’t have to worry about disappointing anybody. […] You’d be disappointing yourself, though, wouldn’t you, by not taking the chance?

You've had his dick in your hand and your tongue in his mouth and you can't sit down and eat a bowl of cereal with him ?

It’s always our mistakes, the things we aren’t proud of, that are the first ones to stand up, ready to be counted. That’s human nature and it’s not going to change, not for me or for you, either.

You make me want to be a better man,” Danny said. “You make me want to be worthy of you, Miller. But if that’s ever going to stick, if it’s ever going to be real, I have to do it for me. I can’t do it just because its who you need me to be. It has to be who I need to be too.

Who gets everything they want, Danny, exactly how they want it? You have to decide the most important thing and go from there.

Danny, whose body made Miller forget the world and whose soul, even marked with shadows, made Miller believe in something beyond the stars.

Whatever it was Miller did, he did it because he thought you were worth it. He chose you, Danny.

But Danny’s feelings for Hinestroza were too complicated for such single-minded emotion. Rage stewed in a melting-pot mix with respect and fear and the humiliating, aching need to be loved.

That’s the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you’ve got so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.