Top 100 Josh Lanyon Quotes
#1. Some guys say it with flowers," Tucker said. "I bring you arson reports.
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#2. Then I got another mental image of him, broad chest covered in blond pelt, muscular forearms, big smooth cock jutting out of a silky nest. Riordan ordering me down on my knees, his hand tangling in my hair as he pulled my head toward his heat. The laugh died in my throat.
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#3. Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.
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#4. The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
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#6. You know, this won't be an easy thing, Adrien." An officer-involved shooting was not going to be fun, righteous or not. "The investigation you mean?" "No." He gave me that crooked smile. "No, I don't mean that.
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#7. Did he want to put a cock ring on me or did he fear I wanted to put a wedding ring on him?
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#8. Drink your coffee
people in Africa are sleeping.
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#9. How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.
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#10. When I get back to L.A. I'm going to buy myself a Blackberry and a slew of French-cuffed shirts. Possibly a nipple ring.
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#11. Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about our mutual friend's difficulty.'
The guy sounded like he worked for the CIA. Or Charles Dickens.
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#12. 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.
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#13. They will rue the day," Tucker growled.
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#14. There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, no one ever entirely knew anyone else.
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#15. Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events?
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#16. Look, Paul. I appreciate what you're telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact, he'd throw my ass in jail if he found out I tried to go around him."
"He wouldn't, you know," he said. "Jake's a pussycat."
Yeah, just a big old saber-toothed tiger.
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#17. There was always one person more devoted than the other in a relationship, right?
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#18. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
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#19. He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.
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#20. They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for the asking. His even if he didn't know how to ask.
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#21. Maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.
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#22. Swift opened his eyes. "Your fingers are shaking."
Max nodded. "Adrenaline. It's pretty exciting seeing your friend's car get shot full of holes. Especially with your friend sitting inside."
Swift nodded too. "From my side too.
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#23.
Focus on someone else's problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice.
From now on you'll have to live in a world you didn't make up. Horrible thought.
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#24. I caught sight of Fraser in a pair of tight black Speedos. Ugh. Did he have a permit to carry that thing in public?
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#25. A muscle moved in Tucker's jaw. He said, You mean you want berating space. I breath better when you are close by.
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#26. One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.
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#27. I couldn't see him putting up with the restraints and discipline of being a Bottom - he wouldn't have been able to remember half the rules - and no sane person would allow Rob to be his Top.
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#28. Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"
"Something in my body language?"
He groaned. "That was bad - even for you.
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#29. You don't look so hot, Adrien."
"Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day."
His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it.
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#30. That's one of the oldest tricks in the world, Adrien-with-an-e.
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#31. Hey, its not much of a closet is it?"
"No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.
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#32. I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.
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#33. You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
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#34. I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
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#35. I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.
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#36. Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence."
"It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist."
"Uh-huh.
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#37. I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you
they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.
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#38. I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.
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#39. He woke with Max's arms wrapped around his torso and Max's genitals soft against his ass. And for the first time in days he wasn't aware of wanting anything but breakfast. Breakfast and Max. Not necessarily in that order.
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#40. I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?"
"I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.
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#41. Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens."
I heard that long, weary exhalation.
"It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that.
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#42. A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end.
"Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? "
Silence. Then dial tone.
These younger demons. So easily discouraged.
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#43. Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries.
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#44. Homosexuality just wasn't what it used to be in the Golden Age of mystery writing.
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#45. Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.
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#46. Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.
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#47. First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution.
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#48. I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
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#49. Being alone wasn't nearly as lonely as being with people who didn't love you
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#50. People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
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#52. You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.
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#53. To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
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#54. I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.
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#55. Okay, baby?
Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me.
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#56. I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.
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#57. You're crazy about me, Elliot ... "
"You know how I know, Elliot?" ...
"I know how you feel because I feel the same way.
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#58. I'm not at a place in my life where I can be in a relationship."
Her smile grew troubled. "A place in your life? What does that mean? Our relationships are all that life is about.
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#59. You feel rain in a used bookstore. The old pages pick up the damp and mustiness like old bones do rheumatism.
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#60. I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.
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#61. We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.
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#62. Nothing so simple nor yet so intense as a kiss between lovers.
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#63. I don't want to get hurt again. That's true. A week ago we weren't on speaking terms. Now you think you love me. And I don't want to hurt you either. I'm not looking for a steady boyfriend right now.
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#64. You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.
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#65. Law enforcement hardened you. It made you cynical about people. Even people you loved. The people who deserved your unconditional trust.
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#66. Knowing and believing are two different things.
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#67. I know that asshole you were with in college
"
"Can we leave that asshole out of it?"
Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.
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#68. And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.
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#69. He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again - he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.
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#70. I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?
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#71. 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.
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#72. I want that.
I don't think a week goes by I don't dream about it.
The way it feels to move inside you.
The way your body grabs on like tight velvet.
The sounds you make, like having me inside you is the best thing that ever happened to you.
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#73. I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
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#74. Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously
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#75. 'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no return.'
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#76. It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.
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#77. Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.
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#78. Thought of Riordan. Thought of a big hand wrapping around my shaft, sliding up and down, pumping hard ... harder. The head of my cock leaked a single salty tear to slick my own hand's efforts. Yikes. Think of Bruce. Yeah. Better. Safer. Saner ...
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#79. Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.
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#80. A lot of kids are shocked at the idea of people over thirty having sex. (Max)
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#81. Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
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#82. Love ... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people
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#83. 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.
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#84. Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
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#85. Eyes closed, I murmured, "Are you kissing it better?"
"Am I?"
"I think so. My lips hurt too.
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#86. And that infrequent and devastating smile - and eyes just the color of a Scottish loch at sunset, sort of green-gold, like summer bracken or polished cairngorm.
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#87. Will stared at him with utter disbelief. "Am I really supposed to answer that? What do you think I want? I want you." He added bitterly, "Who wouldn't want you? Seeing you're so sweet-tempered and understanding.
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#88. 'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that ... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!'
'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'
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#89. 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.
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#90. Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren't measured in hours, days, and years.
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#91. Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stoner hours on murder.
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#92. 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
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#93. How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.
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#94. The best fiction captures the truth of real life.
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#95. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and ... unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
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#96. Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered."
He stared at me with disbelief. [ ... ]
"Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.
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#97. Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?
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#98. Intimacy issues' is code for 'I haven't met the right person.'"
"And what is 'trust issues' code for?"
Pierce held his gaze. "I'm afraid to believe I've met the right person.
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#99. It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.
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#100. 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.
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