Kaje Harper Quotes

#1. Family could lift you up,or mess you up pretty badly.

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#2. I was just wondering, what would you say to a pair of kittens?"
""Hi, snack food?

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#3. There's never been anyone I could go to, to just be myself.

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#4. Hell, you're the only man I've ever met that I would stand in front of a judge and say I'm gay for.

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#5. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...

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#6. Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.

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#7. It wasn't about sex, it was about comfort.

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#8. Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren't there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are all real, good, and valuable people and you are entitled to be safe. And you are allowed to fight back, run, scream, get help or do whatever it takes to be safe.

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#9. I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.

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#10. Of course he was a politician. He had a lot of experience in saying nothing in a hundred words or more.

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#11. I will never force you," he said. "I'll try never to hurt you, but no man can safely promise that. Any hurt I do to you, I will be desperately sorry for and try to repair.

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#12. Mark Twain said, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

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#13. Kids were an antidote for darkness, Tony thought. The way they ran and laughed, you had to believe in happy endings.

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#14. Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.

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#15. Anna glanced over at her father and Mac added, Sometimes it's like that. Some boys want to date other boys, and some girls like other girls best. As long as people are happy, it all works out.

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#16. What's the rule for fighting? Hit the soft parts with your hand and the hard parts with a utensil?

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#17. Tony chuckled. "So how does my other underwear fit you?" "Like covering a banana with a Band-Aid.

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#18. I know you're not looking for a relationship, or even a fuck buddy, but ... are you looking for anything that I can be?

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#19. Didn't want to hurt you and I didn't want to wreck my life and I did both and I'm sorry I was ever born, and will you please sit down here and let me hold you for a minute, because I don't think I can make it without you

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#20. May I just say that religion and logic don't always go together, and then we can move on.

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#21. We need to shop," Paul said, peering over his shoulder.
"True. We should do it together." [ ... ]"We can hold up cucumbers in the produce section and make suggestive gestures at each other with them.

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#22. Because if something happened to Mac, no one would call him. No one knew about them. He would only find out when Mac failed to come home, and there was a story on the news about police officer shot.

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#23. It's a gift beyond price, to know you are loved, without conditions, without limits, without end.

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#24. If you do dishes, you can live here forever.

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#25. The whole room said, Admire without touching anything and then get out.

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#26. And whoever it is you love, Detective, use your time wisely. I'm at the end of this road, and you're at the beginning. Doesn't mean you have all the time in the world, though.

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#27. I want you, here, with me, before I close my eyes." "That you have," Mac said.

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#28. Xan had helped me in the end. Let him be an uncomplicated hero.

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#29. You've been all black and white, like Kansas. It's time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors.

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#30. Mac blinked. That smile should be registered as a deadly weapon.

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#31. Only one man I love enough to do something like golfing for, and it's not Dad.

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#32. Hey!" Marty protested. "I have the best gaydar around."
"Except when you're wrong. Like that construction worker?"
"I'm not wrong just because they won't admit it.

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#33. Growing old seemed to be full of never-again moments.

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#34. Daniel snorted. "You are such a cynic."
"You're such a romantic."
"Yeah. Isn't diversity grand?

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#35. That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.

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#36. When he went into that bar and saw Tony there with somebody, his head close to a handsome blond one, his hand on the man's arm, Mac had been so ... jealous.

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#37. What good is a book no-one can read, save for the paper? He was lucky I'd had to let him live. If my glare could have started a fire, he'd have been charred.

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#38. Food first," Kellen said firmly, "because I'm a really good cook, and I want you to experience the full awesomeness. And then bed, nice and slow, for pretty much the same reason.

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