Dan Skinner Quotes

#1. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff

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#2. At the top, he dipped the tip of his tongue in and tasted Caleb's essence. Delicious. Another jewel-like drop appeared, as if by magic. Matt stole it as well.

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#3. How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

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#4. His focus had been so narrow that the world became a mirrored reflection of his attitude - as

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#5. He knew for the first time ever that someone existed who actually cared for him.

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#6. Love does not make cowards. It creates heroes.

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#7. Why do we cry when we're happy?" I asked. "It's one of those things. I don't think it makes us less one way, or more the other. I think it just is. I don't think emotions have a gender preference.

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#8. I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

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#9. Once a fear has been faced, whether the battle is won or lost, the soul becomes cleansed.

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#10. Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

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#11. Nature doesn't tell you what's wrong. It only let's you know what's right.

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#12. Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There's a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

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#13. There's no doubt that Dick and I were in a relationship. It was one completely contrary to anything one would consider normal.

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#14. I also learned that the world is a bad place not because there's more bad people than good. It's because the good are complacent.

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#15. I've always been a very private individual. For a lot of reasons. But mainly one. The man I lived with for all that time. The monster in the closet who I protected.

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#16. "You can't dream in the light, if you can't live in it."

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#17. Mom: Your hair is getting long. Who are you trying to be? John Lennon?
David: Cher.
Mom: Your voice isn't deep enough.

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#18. I have only one thing to say. I'm an aggressive extrovert. A warning is advisable. I hunt down people lurking in corners and shadows, and absolutely no one is safe

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#19. And then when you are actually in the moment and you see the time slipping away from you, you realize it wasn't just something people said in songs and poems and books. It was something those people had actually felt and been through.

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#20. Your first kiss. I wanted it to be mine.

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#21. There's quite a difference between fucking what you can get, and fucking something that blows the brains out of your skull like a 44 Magnum.

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#22. I'll teach you how to do it later. I just had to see you experience it," he said softly in Matt's ear. "I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since I first saw you.

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#23. No matter how this turns out, you've already seen the treasure we all search a lifetime for. You've got the whole rest of your life to be grateful for that.

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#24. I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

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#25. Which choice do you think is easier? One that comes with a threat? Or one that comes from love?

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#26. It's only human to think about the the 'what might have beens'. But it doesn't change what really is. And if we get lost in things that aren't, we lose sight of what's right in front of us.

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#27. All those millions of stars and planets and it only takes three to make something important. The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. And here we are. Life.

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#28. Forgive me for my sappiness, but it's the only means I have to convey the molecular destruction I experienced caught in the vision of his smile.

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#29. It there's one thing we have to get used to...it's that we can't get used to things."(Rosemary)

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#30. This is where you're going to tell me you're gay, isn't it?

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#31. Love doesn't happen because you find the right bricks and cement to build it. Love really is...pure magic. It comes from" - she gestured toward the heavens - "out there. And if falls like pixie dust where it wants. And when id does...you can fly."
(Rosemary)

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#32. Sometimes the only way you can get through the deepest pain is to distance yourself.

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#33. They told me how men made laws that allowed them to discriminate, segregate, and incarcerate without due process. Men are still writing those same laws today. They might wrap them in a different flag, but we can see that swastika underneath.

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#34. I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist.

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#35. But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the songs and stories and poems.

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#36. It was hard to tell if he was lying, or really believed his own bullshit. "We're good for each other. You give me what I need. I give you what you need. No one needs to know what that is because it's a secret between us. So we put on our suit. That's the investment: us.

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#37. It's not the span of time that matters. It's the quality of love you have in that time that counts. For some people a thousand years would never be enough.

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#38. I think the whole world should be naked, so no one could try to pretend to be something other than they are." (Ryan)

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#39. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!

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#40. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.

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#41. I tried to turn my mind off. Shut down the thoughts that were with me every second. Everything in me ached to be with him. It was worse than an obsession. It was a need.

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#42. I was in some other guy's version of heaven.

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#43. It's hard t want to fit in and not be able to," his voice came barely above a whisper. "They make us feel like it's easier to lie than be truthful. Easier to hide than be seen. Make us feel like we did something wrong to not be like them. Like we made a conscious choice".

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#44. He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out.

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#45. Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn't seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.

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#46. Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it's better than the question mark if you don't.

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