Lisa Henry Quotes

#1. At what point in your life did you decide you were the sort of guy who wanted to be fisted?

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#2. For most people, blood is still thicker than water, but I guess all bets are off when you put money in the mix.

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#3. Maybe it was a miracle that had placed Elijah in Dr. Carter's care. Most likely it was proof that God was cruel.

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#4. Time was meaningless, except each moment was a countdown to the end.

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#5. Are you mad?"
"Why would I be mad?"
"I'm covered in mud."
"Are you sure that's mud? I thought you were covered in the dreams you made in the dirt.

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#6. But they wanted the same things, and it wasn't a lot. Just someone who would be there for them, despite everything else, forever. Everyone wanted that, probably.

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#7. Lucky for you," Zev said calmly, "there's a boy in your cabin who saw the whole thing and still wants to be in your bunk.

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#8. Bel pointed. "Head. Tail. Pets go here." He pointed to the dog's head again. "Farts come out here." He pointed to the dog's back end. "That's all you need to know about Stump.

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#9. I just want to see what it's like when I don't hurt.

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#10. (Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

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#11. One foot in front of the other,' Lee murmured.
'One sand dollar and then another.

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#12. Blake looked confused. So footballers were mostly the same the world over. "Football," Blake said. "Ya know ... football?

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#13. (Derek) "How do you see the beauty in a three-eared dog but not in a guy with big teeth?"
(Christy) "Dogs rule. People drool."
(Derek) "Only if you gag them.

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#14. How shall we go about becoming the greatest empire on earth? Say, I know. Let's have our manliest sport involve butt-slapping, shoulder pads, and prancing.

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#15. Lee," Shaw said in a low voice.
Lee raised his gaze.
"Whatever you want," Shaw told him.
Lee swallowed. "What?"
"Whatever you want," Shaw repeated. "Whatever you came here for. Just tell me, and it's yours.

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#16. I want my son back," his mom had said. Lee didn't know where to find him.

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#17. Because Clare had never let the fact that Mark didn't have a father in his life get in the way of sex education. She'd been showing Mark how to roll condoms onto bananas long before he'd known it was other bananas he was interested in.

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#18. Sometimes Blake was shockingly perceptive. And other times he got himself locked in Portaloos.

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#19. Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?'
'Nope.' I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. 'Nobody does. That's why I remain undiagnosed.'

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#20. He'd never known it could be like that. Never before found that place where sex was something more, something larger than the act. Where it became about trust, and openness, and belonging.

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#21. You want to stay over?"
"No. I want you to want me to stay over.

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#22. Derek was in good shape, not just for a man his age but for any man. So maybe he wouldn't be able to get away with wearing skinny jeans, but that didn't matter. Those were for emo kids, hipsters, and twinks and should be outlawed for over thirties anyway

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#23. The men who killed your monsters weren't heroes. They were even more frightening.

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#24. You saved my life. You're my whole world, and still I turn away.

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#25. I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway.

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#26. That's all he was doing. Mistaking that intensity for something that didn't translate outside of the bedroom. That couldn't, probably, because something that intense would burn itself out in a flash if you opened it up to the world, wouldn't it?

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#27. He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart.

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#28. But suddenly I was dreaming of cock. Fisting it, sucking it, riding it, in glorious fucking Technicolor.

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#29. You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.

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#30. It's a laugh," Grady said. "No way a laugh can sound bad. You heard the way Cody snorts like a pig? You got nothing to be ashamed of.

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#31. And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at all.

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#32. Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again.

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#33. Some guys were meant to be heroes. I was never one of them, but fuck it, I could learn.

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#34. If we want to survive, we adapt.

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#35. Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.

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#36. What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" ~Mark Cooper

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#37. What's the difference between a lie and a secret?

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#38. I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe.
Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be.
I would miss that, miss being important.
I would miss having someone.

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#39. The way she lived and died waiting for every text message, the way she overthought every abbreviation and smiley face, and hunted for every nuance in a medium so brief there was nowhere for nuance to hide.

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#40. As a federal agent, I want you to know I'm disgusted by your lack of respect for the law."
"But you're impressed too," Henry said without turning around. "You're disguspressed.

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#41. Sometimes the universe collapsed in the blink of an eye.
Other times it limped on and on, hour by hour, day by day, and wouldn't fucking die.

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#42. Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

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#43. It'll blow your mind, he'd said. Nothing about what it would do to his heart.

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#44. You're my heartbeat, Brady.

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#45. But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business.

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#46. You think you slayed your demon," Daniel murmured finally. "And it turns out he's built a whole wall of himself around your life.

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#47. People don't like when they can't figure you out. When you're too quiet. It scares them.

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#48. You dreamed about falling asleep?" Daniel asked him.
"Falling asleep together." Bel smile. "And it was weird. You know what I said to you?"
"What'd you say?"
"I said, 'Don't go too far without me.'

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#49. It was an accident?" Nick attempts. "An accident?" Chris huffs out. "An accident? You accidentally gave someone a blowjob?" If Nick never hears the word "blowjob" come out of his dad's mouth again, he'll die a happy man.

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#50. you're too angry to be a nihilist.

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#51. I ain't got much patience for virgins. You just grit your teeth and mind you don't scream too loud.

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#52. Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass.

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#53. People ended up together for a lot of reasons, and very rarely was one of those reasons the kind of kissing-on-a-mountaintop-at-sunset bullshit you saw in movies. Mostly people were just too chickenshit to walk through the world alone.

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#54. Ah," Mark said. "I see. Awkward silence."
"You don't say 'awkward silence'," Alex said. "You just let it happen."
"I said 'awkward silence' to fill the awkward silence. It's meta."
"I don't think it is.

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#55. Well, sometimes it's not about the birds and the bees, is it? Sometimes it's about the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees.

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#56. [Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.

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#57. I'm not letting you give me a dinosaur and run away! Dinosaurs fucking meant something.

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#58. So be brave and be good and be everything.
For him.

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#59. I'm keeping you. You ain't figured it out yet, but I'm keeping you.

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#60. Miss u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
Want u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
OK, he sent back, and wondered stupidly if Ben would try and discern any hidden meaning in those two tiny letters.

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#61. 'You're like starlight,' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.'

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#62. Un-fucking-believable," Mark muttered. "In a country where they let embryos drive cars, I have to wait until I'm twenty-one to buy alcohol. What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" He glared at Deacon accusingly. "Well?

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#63. It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark.

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