Brandon Shire Quotes

#1. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu

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#2. You are such a fag hag. They should have a class just for you, call it Man Porn 101.

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#3. He knew what it was like to lose a parental anchor in life.

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#4. Yes, I would. I can read the arrest report now. Two blind men fighting over a hot, gay stud-muffin. My mom would freak out and her gaggle of friends would make sure that everybody in town knew about her blind, gay son beating someone down over a man.

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#5. How could he have wanted someone so desperately for so long and then be this terrified when he finally saw him again?

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#6. Listen to the breath of the rain."
They were silent for a minute. Dillon closed his eyes and tried to grasp at what Hunter experienced. Hunter moved closer and put the heat of his breath in Dillon's ear. "I want you to make love to me by the rhythm of the rain," he whispered.

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#7. But love is a fluid thing. It's not the same for every person. The concept is. The reality isn't. When you hear people talking, they're usually trying to validate their own perception of what love is, or what it means to be in love.

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#8. His feelings for Hunter kept falling down on him like an inescapable rain. He kept getting drenched, not sure if he wanted to dance in it or pop open an umbrella and run for cover. "You're such an idiot," he told himself quietly.

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#9. Dillon went so still it was like Hunter was alone in the apartment again. He emitted no breath, no whisper of movement, nothing. He was just a blank space, an absence in the middle of the room. Hunter started to reach for him but froze his hand when Dillon spoke. ( ... )

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#10. Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

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#11. Five thousand miles away and I can still feel your turbulence on my skin, Dustin; your grit stuck in the chambers of my heart ... and all the silence that has followed it.
Please write me back.

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#12. In my opinion, I think we have brief moments of great beauty and great pain, and as we journey we try to grasp one, so we can avoid the other.

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#13. This was to be man sex.

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#14. The desperate resilience,the annoyed flamboyance;his personable passivity and his phobic aggressiveness; all trapped in the clever wrinkles of his fingers, the hard unsociable cast of his knuckles, the safe hopelessness of the pads.

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#15. Don't look for someone you think you can change. Find someone you can love. Someone who will love you back, even if you get old and fat.

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#16. They had talked about doing audio man on man fiction at one time, but they realized that neither of them would be able to create a complete CD without running home to masturbate every hour or two.

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#17. Every storm has a brilliance, Dustin; has beauty when you look at it from a distance. It blurs all those incessant imperfections we seek to hollow out with each of our hopes. But when you step into its still center, when you see it's fury and its power, you also see its beauty; its grace.

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#18. Even now I can feel the heat from your palm as you cupped the back of my head and pulled my lips those last few inches, how you opened your body and begged me with your soul.

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#19. You're telling me I'm being attacked by a bunch of goddamned queers?

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#20. Robbie dropped his chin a little as if considering what Stephen said. Maybe not, but whispering from your heart ain't always easy; and Dusty knew that real well, probably more than either of us.

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