Top 94 Cullinan Quotes
#1. Friend is cullinan diamond, they can not be a second option as boyfriend.
Dave
#2. Miss Glory went on to say that the doctor had taken all her lady organs. I reasoned that a pig organ's included the lungs, heart, and liver, so if Mrs. Cullinan was walking around without those essentials, it explained why she drank alcohol out of unmarked bottles. She was keeping herself embalmed.
Maya Angelou
#3. He wanted to be loved and cherished, yes. But he also wanted to be fucked.
Heidi Cullinan
#4. Why do you stay with me?" he whispered. He wished he hadn't said it once the words were out of of his mouth, wished he could pull them back, but Laurie didn't seem fazed at all. In fact, he just smiled a crooked smile and kissed him again. "Because I don't want to dance by myself," he whispered.
Heidi Cullinan
#7. You can't say that you need to burn witches and shun gay men but eat pork and wear all the mixed fibers you want!!
Heidi Cullinan
#8. It's your eyes, I think. They promise something kind. Heaven help the world should you ever turn dark. You would send Satan himself scrambling.
Heidi Cullinan
#9. Jesus, Steve hated cats. "They're so precious." Chenco crouched to love on the calico's belly. "I always wanted one, but my mom said no, and of course Cooper would have killed it for fun." Fuck, Steve was going to have to get a cat.
Heidi Cullinan
#10. You can't carry someone else's pain. They have to walk through it on their own.
Heidi Cullinan
#11. Ethan felt a tiny ripple of victory, like he'd scored a blow against a tornado.
Heidi Cullinan
#12. Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.
Heidi Cullinan
#13. How did I know? Paul, I've known since you were eight and I caught you masturbating in front of the TV to Bo and Luke Duke.
Heidi Cullinan
#14. It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.
Heidi Cullinan
#15. Remember having a panic attack isn't a failure, and not having one isn't a success. Success is not letting the attacks run your life
Heidi Cullinan
#16. There's no magic ruler by which we're all judged and weighed, not in this life. If you wait for someone to tell you it's time to grow up, you'll wait forever. Some people, quite happily, do just that. They don't do anything until they're forced to by circumstance
Heidi Cullinan
#17. He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was punishing himself as much as it was that he didn't really want anything anymore. But was that true? Did he really not want anything? What did he want to do? What did he want, period?
Heidi Cullinan
#18. That's it, he rasped. Hump me. Are you a dog? Are you a dog in heat? You my dog? He slapped me again. Speak, puppy.
Heidi Cullinan
#19. You want sins, Aunt? I'll show you sinning. I'll make the devil weep, I'll sin so bad.
Heidi Cullinan
#20. There is no normal. There is not an invisible bar you must meet to be acceptable to society.
Heidi Cullinan
#21. You thought I was so toppy I wouldn't bottom?" He laughed and bit the place he'd been kissing. "Honey, I can drive from anywhere.
Heidi Cullinan
#22. Mom, stop. I have a boyfriend. Jeremey. Why do you think I've been hanging out with him so much? But I can't talk about that right now. He's upset. I have to fix it.
Heidi Cullinan
#23. He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed - himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches.
Heidi Cullinan
#24. We can't date. Maybe we could fuck occasionally. But that's it. Anything else is ridiculous."
A shiver ran through him as Baz's body brushed his, hands skating over his arms. "Let's be ridiculous.
Heidi Cullinan
#25. After several minutes, Ed said, his voice raspy and spent, "You okay, Laur?"
Laurie, his bones melted, his muscles slack, his heart pounding like a happy caged beast against the wall of his chest, his backside throbbing and still half-full of Ed, let out his breath. With great effort, he nodded.
Heidi Cullinan
#26. You're insane." "Crazy for you, baby," Ed whispered at his ear.
Heidi Cullinan
#27. What's Mitch's better-than-love?" Randy snorted. "He and his slut-bunny husband are those disgusting nougat-center people who just flat out like being in love best. And fucking. Which, I gotta admit, is hot as all hell to watch.
Heidi Cullinan
#28. People are good medicine, but they can't be your foundation of functionality. You must build that yourself.
Heidi Cullinan
#29. I am normal. I belong. I have a friend who can kick ass from a wheelchair. I live independently and get good grades. I'm an excellent lover.
Like I said. I'm awesome. I'm Emmet David Washington. Train Man. The best autistic Blues Brother on the block.
Heidi Cullinan
#30. Ride, authors. Write a ride. Figure out what yours is, and then pimp the ever-living shit out of it.
Heidi Cullinan
#31. Nobody ever loved you like I do. ~ Steve thinking to himself about Chenco
Heidi Cullinan
#32. I should probably be noble and tell you I'll let you go if it's what you want, but I'm a spoiled, selfish brat. I'll follow you, beg you, bribe you to stay. Because you're the first one to make it to my island. I don't want to let you leave.
Heidi Cullinan
#33. Sit. I can't flirt standing up, and you're freakishly tall.
Heidi Cullinan
#34. We're always our own villains in the end. Which makes them easy to defeat, once we're ready to admit we were the only ones in our own way.
Heidi Cullinan
#35. As Elijah collapsed, shaking, against him, Baz wrapped his arms around his lover, shut his eyes and let the velvet rope Elijah had used to lead him here settle comfortably around his heart.
Heidi Cullinan
#36. I really am Super Emmet, and like the comic book Superman, I have a powerful secret weapon. My mom.
Heidi Cullinan
#37. That would probably kill me, so I knew he was exaggerating, but it made me feel soft inside. Nervous too, but soft. It's hard to explain. It was kind of like hope, but with jagged edges.
Heidi Cullinan
#38. But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I'm done waiting for the pain to be all gone. I'm done trying to keep it at bay.
Heidi Cullinan
#39. There is no normal, not really. Not a right and a wrong way to be. But there is belonging. That day in Bohemia with Jeremey and David and the girls, I belonged. I belonged as much as anybody on the mean. Maybe even a little bit more.
Heidi Cullinan
#40. Virgins are a rare breed anywhere, but at your age, you're practically a unicorn.
Heidi Cullinan
#41. Hush, Sophie. You're beautiful." It was, mostly, a quote from the movie, and it finished Elijah off. Shutting his eyes, he leaned into Baz's touch. "Don't eat my heart, Howl." "Never," Baz vowed, sealing the promise with a kiss.
Heidi Cullinan
#42. How the fuck did somebody come out as trans, anyway? It wasn't about who you flirted with on the dance floor or walked down the aisle with. It was about who you fucking were. It wasn't putting on drag. It was God putting it on you without your consent.
Heidi Cullinan
#43. My anger and sadness was my ocean, and I couldn't carry it. Not anymore. No one could really love me. Not when they could love somebody else instead.
Heidi Cullinan
#44. The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#45. A wall of heat. The furnace had to be turned up almost to eighty,
Heidi Cullinan
#46. Nothing in the world is the same as anything else, so how can anyone be normal?
Heidi Cullinan
#47. God, they hit you with the stupid stick way, way too hard.
Heidi Cullinan
#48. I can't live in the dorms and I can't stop people from calling me a freak, but I can always solve for X.
Heidi Cullinan
#49. Get out there in the wide world and see for yourself. Find out if you're pathetic, or if it's what people told you to be and you started to believe it.
Heidi Cullinan
#50. I wish you'd stop writing people off before they have a chance to surprise you.
Heidi Cullinan
#51. It's like Elwood Blues says: everybody needs somebody to love. I'm an everybody. I get a somebody.
Heidi Cullinan
#52. mesmerizing them with his secret librarian powers.
Heidi Cullinan
#54. In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart.
Heidi Cullinan
#55. I don't know why, but nobody undoes me like you. You want to know why I ran from you for a month? That. That right there." He traced the tip of his nose along Elijah's. "I'm done running.
Heidi Cullinan
#56. We all have pain, Wes. It isn't life sithout it. What matters in life isn't that we escape pain. What matters is that we overcome it.
Heidi Cullinan
#57. You saw me, though. In the alley. You looked at me and you saw me. I was hiding, but I couldn't hide from you." ~ Chenco to Steve
Heidi Cullinan
#58. Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd.
Heidi Cullinan
#59. Sometimes I feel like everyone else is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes I would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive.
Heidi Cullinan
#60. The life you're meant to lead is worth fighting for. Worth crying for, even worth bleeding for. When you sing the right song, your life opens before you, and all the pain and sorrow become the bricks you build your castles with.
Heidi Cullinan
#62. Everybody's got dirty laundry they don't want other people to see. The trick is figuring out how to not care about it. Make peace with it, accept it as part of who you are.
Heidi Cullinan
#63. Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness - but also ignorance.
Heidi Cullinan
#64. It makes me feel shitty and alone. I don't want to be alone." He sagged. "But I think maybe I have to be. Even in a crowd of people, my heart will always ache." The statement resonated in the furthest hollows of Baz's soul. "Then we'll be lonely hearts together.
Heidi Cullinan
#65. Oh, no you fucking don't. You do not ignore me for five weeks, rub your toe in the dirt and say you need something from me, then bail when I bleed off some hurt.
Heidi Cullinan
#66. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#67. Depression is having a crowd of dementors live in your head twenty-four/seven.
Heidi Cullinan
#68. I don't think people understand about suicidal thoughts. They act as if everyone who makes an attempt is looking for attention.
Heidi Cullinan
#69. Well, if I cannot be sensible and popular at the same time, then I will always choose the virtue rather than the friends.
Thomas Cullinan
#70. Oh, and he loves cats. Like, crazy stupid loves them." "I fucking hate cats." "I used to too. You won't for long.
Heidi Cullinan
#71. The song was "I See the Light", another Tangled number. Aaron sang the male part of the duet, and Walter's friend Rose did a less-than-Mina soprano, but mostly the music fell away in the brilliant presence of the two young men on the dance floor.
Heidi Cullinan
#72. He wasn't just leaving the valley, he was leaving with his brother. And his brother-in-law. And a card shark, a casino mogul and a gangster. And his boyfriend and his madman fresh from the attic.
Heidi Cullinan
#73. Walter Lucas, you're going to marry me. And you're getting epically laid as soon as we get home.
Heidi Cullinan
#74. Because the wheel wasn't about you. The wheel wasn't about anyone. It was just a damn wheel. It was as Randy said - you had to get the best of it. You had to go and be your own wheel.
Heidi Cullinan
#75. Absolutely no slouching, Ed. You're the frame. You're the stem to my flower. Quit giving me crooked pictures and wilted flowers.
Heidi Cullinan
#77. His eyes turned to something like horror - the kind of horror usually reserved for bad slasher movies. I may as well have been wearing a fucking hockey mask and wielding a giant machete.
Heidi Cullinan
#78. Kill them with kindness and if that didn't work, use a shotgun
Heidi Cullinan
#79. Frankly, I'm awesome, and anybody who doesn't agree should get out of my way.
Heidi Cullinan
#80. So long as Sam wanted to take it up the ass with another dick in his mouth instead of politely pounding a pussy, he couldn't belong. Not here. Not ever. Any wedding Sam planned in this environment wouldn't just be an also-ran. It would be nothing short of a total disaster.
Heidi Cullinan
#81. no matter the acuity of our senses, no matter how educated we are or how good we are or how much conviction we live our lives with, we can never experience the wholeness of the answer within our own fragile and limited selves. We need one another to achieve a vision of wholeness.
John Cullinan
#82. Sometimes," she said in her pretty, quiet voice, "being the one who has to work extra hard to come close to what is effortless for everyone else truly sucks. Is that what you were trying to say?
Heidi Cullinan
#83. I'm so in love with him I can't even ask him out. I want to lie at his feet, want to smooth out all the wrinkles in his life and make everything okay.
Heidi Cullinan
#84. This was something he'd done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed to sepia with age.
Heidi Cullinan
#85. I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money.
Heidi Cullinan
#86. As far as Elijah Prince was concerned, gay weddings could choke on their own cheery goddamned glitter and die.
Heidi Cullinan
#87. [His pain] wasn't a punishment. It wasn't a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn't all his life was, not always.
Heidi Cullinan
#88. Because that's what the right partner did: they helped you find your better self, especially when you couldn't clear out the cobwebs on your own to find the way.
Heidi Cullinan
#89. Louisa raised an eyebrow. Is he - how shall I put it delicately - a simple man?
Heidi Cullinan
#90. Moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came with sorrow as its anchor.
Heidi Cullinan
#91. He wanted a James Lear novel: near to constant episodes of sexual encounters strung together with a bit of mystery, and maybe, for window-dressing, some self-discovery.
Heidi Cullinan
#92. Think we ought to live happily ever after. - Howl in Howl's Moving Castle
Heidi Cullinan
#94. Steve smiled, the rug not only pulled out from under him but rolled up and put away.
Heidi Cullinan
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