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"Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Christening #Sleeping Beauty #Sleep

"Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Book #Feels #Antiques

"When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Fear #Accepting #Used

"Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Monday #Enough #Cop

"He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Chorus #Honest #Fine

"Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Familiar #Found #Sweet

"You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Attitude #Little Bit #Mind

"I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Remembered #Swamps #Flattering

"And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Horse #Vanilla #Size

"I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Thinking #Said #Mark

"Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that." "You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." "Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Thinking #Ears #Said

"You were the first in every way that counted."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Way #Firsts

"Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Said #Nightmare #Stills

"Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy"

--- Josh Lanyon

#Thinking #Seventies #Carrying On

"I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you feel. If you’re still craving cocaine, go ahead. You’re safe. You can crave it all you want, but I won’t let go, and if you still feel like you can’t trust yourself in the morning, and it’s what you want, I’ll drive you to rehab myself. Okay?" ~ Max"

--- Josh Lanyon

#All Night #Feels #Max

"Knowing and believing are two different things."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Different #Believe #Knowing

"The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Felony #Phones #Lawyer

"The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Opera

"I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Ears #Term #Formal

"I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it."

--- Josh Lanyon

#People #Murder #Begging

"He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Asks #Answers #Knows

"How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table."

--- Josh Lanyon

#People #Packs #Unwanted

"Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Meds #Half #Bad Ideas

"Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Fades #Sunlight #Died

"Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public"

--- Josh Lanyon

#Lovers #Shops #Gay

"Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Quiet #Merriment #Stuff

"The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man’s need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Race #Gender #Rage

"I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Involved #Rest Easy #Get Involved

"We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean."

--- Josh Lanyon

#Cracks #Feels #Clean

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