Rodney Ross Quotes

#1. I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it's the same dusk.

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#2. You can't go home again, not if you can't find the fucking street, Mr. Wolfe.

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#3. I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.

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#4. Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone's vocation.

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#5. What a mealy-mouth. Windier than a bag of assholes.

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#6. Like I'm listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom's cold pillow.

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#7. My body speaks. Actually, it's ready to shout itself hoarse.

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#8. Pride starts with the penis.

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#9. No man is an island."
"So I'm a peninsula. Only semi-detached.

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#10. You call our upbringing normal?"
"Mostly, yes! Don't get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn't nature or nurture. We're the ones who cultivated our abnormalities.

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#11. My learning curve has had more squiggles than I counted on.

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#12. One look at you, and I said to myself: this is a man who can bring you some peace ...

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#13. Go out looking for the end of a rainbow and there might only be a Port-A-Let.

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#14. It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.

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#15. Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.

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#16. Serenity is found when wading into it.

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#17. Were there Madison County bridges or were they all trysts in tool sheds?

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#18. Will I ever be happy again?"
"Do we even know we're happy when we're happy?

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#19. But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?

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#20. Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply.

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#21. Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.

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#22. Piss on reset. Wherever you land, when you get there, man, hit play.

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#23. I stare at the beauty that comes automatically bundled and unappreciated with youth. I can't be this anymore.

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#24. In youth, you want someone to build a life with. After fifty, you just want someone who can handle salt.

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#25. I get it, let's just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit!

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#26. So how old was Miss Brodie, when she was in her damn prime?

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#27. How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another's company become overwhelming?

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