Revolution || Lashton AU - boyxboy

making amends [part one]

favorite/most important revolution quotes:

"Nobody likes a lost puppy, Hemmings."
"Well, speak for yourself. I love any kind of puppies."
-chapter four

"Ashy, I wanna go nuh-night."
"Nuh-night? You're nineteen years old, Hemmings."
"Who's Hemmings? I wanna go nuh-night!"
"You. You're Hemmings."
"What! I thought I was Luke! The world is crazy."
-chapter five

I had just started to undo his belt buckle when we were interrupted by one of the worst kind of mood killers.
"Mew."
"Is that a fucking kitten?"
"His name is Benjamin."
-chapter six

“Hey, hey, Ashton. You’re alright. You’re good. There’s no need to be angry anymore, I think you’ve done quite enough already.” He chuckled, half dry, half sincere. “You can calm down now, okay? We’re good, okay?”
-luke, chapter ten

"Come out, come out, wherever you are, motherfucker!"
-ashton, chapter ten

“Here to beat me up with your crutches, Gimpy?”
-ashton, chapter eleven

I liked spending Christmas with my three best friends: booze, pot, and loneliness.
-ashton, chapter sixteen

And yes, blowjob jokes were made.
And no, blowjobs did not happen.
-ashton, chapter sixteen

Luke's the freshly painted white wall and I'm the little kid with a new box of crayons.
-ashton, chapter eighteen

"I mean, how the fuck could someone say that to their own kid? A girl he was practically in love with fucking died and that's all he said? I mean, you look at Ashton now and it's like, is he really that bad? Is he? Or is he just damaged?"
-nate, chapter nineteen

And I felt a bit like a broken vase. A broken vase in a broken home, that belonged to a broken family in a broken world. I just felt a bit broken. And I didn't know why, I just did.
-luke, chapter nineteen

 

"I'm not trying to crush you or anything. But at the same time, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Ashton's a time bomb. And every once in a while, he's got to go off. You know? And that's-- This is kind of what's happening now."
-nate, chapter twenty-three

 

"Sometimes, when someone loves you, they have to break your heart."
-brian, chapter twenty-four

 Because I was just an 8.5 by 11 piece of paper in a world of paper cranes.
-luke, chapter twenty-seven

 

People can sit there and cheer you on from the sidelines while you're kicking ass, but the minute you start losing, they take a few steps back and quiet down.
-ashton, chapter thirty-one

 

"If you don't rip your own feelings out, someone will do it for you. And trust me, you save yourself a lot of pain to just do it yourself."
-ashton, chapter thirty-one

 

I huffed angrily, before grabbing [Luke's] hand with my own. "He is family."
-ashton, chapter thirty-five

 

And every word that came out of his mouth at this point just chiseled away at me and if he wasn't too careful with that chisel of his, I was going to crack right down the middle.
-ashton, chapter thirty-five

 

"I ain't the only family you got left. 'Cause your pretend-husband seems like he loves you a whole lot more than someone who's not family would."
-harry, chapter thirty-five

 

Who the fuck slides around on ice with blades on their feet for fun?
-ashton, chapter thirty-six

 

"I'd rather be no memory at all than just a bad one."
-ashton, chapter thirty-six

 

"In another life, maybe I could've been less of a tornado or, perhaps you could've been more of one."
-ashton, chapter forty

 

"I'm in love with you and you're in love with him, and he broke your heart and now you're breaking mine."
-owen, chapter forty-two

 

And I was willing to bear with the consequences if it meant a minimal amount of pain.
-luke, chapter forty-three

 

"Dude, do you ever just stop and laugh at how much your life actually resembles some shitty soap opera?"
-avery, chapter forty-seven

 

"I was barreling through a place full of dark corners and dead-ends, but you threw yourself in my line of destruction, and, rather ironically, saved me."
-ashton, chapter fifty

 

"I love so much I'd make the sun rise for you every morning if I had to do it with my own bare hands."
"And I love you so much I'd shatter the sun so you didn't have to anymore."
-chapter fifty

 

"You can't keep doing that. You can't keep being more smooth than me. It's really killing my vibe, Irwin."
-luke, chapter fifty

 

"If you wouldn't say it to Jesus, don't say it all."
-luke, chapter fifty

 

"No, I've never done PCP but I like to think of myself as a rather free-spirited person."
-luke, chapter fifty

 

"[Ashton] you were one of those wannabe arsonist brats when you were a kid, right?"
-ray, epilogue

 

Home isn't a place. It's a feeling.
-ashton, epilogue

 

Maybe they weren't there to save me when I was fourteen years old and drowning. But they were there to save me when I was twenty-one and drowning, and I couldn't ask for more than that.
-ashton, epilogue

okay yeah okay so i talked to my best friend mickey about doing this and he said it would be a good way to maybe build confidence in my writing and i thought he was being dumb but now i did it, and i think that although this story was overall trash, i had a lot of good lines that i'm proud of, and here they are.