Top 100 Josh Lanyon Quotes
#1. They lived seven hundred miles - and a couple universes - apart.
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#2. I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.
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#3. Tucker said so softly the words were almost inaudible, You're wrong, you know. I would let you get away with murder. Hell, I'd probably help you commit it, if that's what you wanted ...
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#4. This could be heaven or this could be hell'?"
"A lot will depend on the mattress.
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#6. I cracked the window shades of my eyes. Jake knelt over me, the head of my cock in his mouth.
I raised my head, mumbled, "What are you doing?"
He paused the proceedings long enough to utter, "If you don't know, I must not be doing it correctly.
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.
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#10. I got some peculiar looks from staff and visitors alike, but no one challenged me, which is a statement as to what an air of confidence will do. Or how truly scary crazy people are.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. It was nearly five before Jake walked in. He was sunburnt, wet, and smelled faintly of fish. Sexy as hell. Don't ask me to explain.
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#16. 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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#17. What the hell were the odds of attracting two stalkers within a year? Was it my aftershave?
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#18. Jake fried up the fish, cooked rice with garlic, cilantro and green onions. Someday he was going to make some woman a wonderful wife.
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#19. 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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#20. That's one of the oldest tricks in the world, Adrien-with-an-e.
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#21. Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice.
Before or after the accident?
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#22. Cops before breakfast. Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.
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#23. You couldn't hurt a fly.
Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.
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#24. Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.
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#25. 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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#26. This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.
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#28. I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde."
That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder
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#29. People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
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#30. Being alone wasn't nearly as lonely as being with people who didn't love you
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#31. What the hell was it that people loved so much about the great outdoors? It was just one fatal accident after another waiting to happen.
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#32. The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
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#33. I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Homosexuality just wasn't what it used to be in the Golden Age of mystery writing.
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#38. The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him.
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#39. Just so you know,If I have to be shackled to someone, I'd choose you everytime.
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#40. Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.
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#44. You were the first in every way that counted.
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#45. West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner
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#46. All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
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#47. His knee was killing him, was not going to support him for much longer, but of far greater importance seemed the erection shoving against the constriction of his jeans. Biological imperative.
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#48. 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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#49. But we all hurt the people we love sometimes. We all let each other down sooner or later. Which is why contrition and forgiveness played a part in any relationship. Trying not to hurt each other, trying not to let each other down in the big things, that was as much as anyone could aim for.
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#50. 'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?'
I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?'
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#51. You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?
As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
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#52. Welcome to the closet, I thought, is it dark in here or is just me
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#53. They will rue the day," Tucker growled.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.
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#58. Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?"
"I'm not usually suspected of murdering them."
"You have been as long as I've known you.
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#59. He was glad to have it that way. He didn't need Robert's power under him and harnessed, he wanted it inside, filling him, warming him, ending the winter that had haunted him for so long.
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#60. Drink your coffee
people in Africa are sleeping.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#64. 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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#65. The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
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#66. Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.
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#67. He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin.
That about summed it up.
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#68. 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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#69. They kissed, but it was a gentle kiss and there was no urgency. They were tired and they were ... healing. They had time. And time was the most beautiful word of all.
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#70. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write.
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#71. Just shut up and listen."
"Well since you ask so nicely ... ."
There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything.
"Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what?
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#72. When was the last time anyone in these parts had been attacked by a bear or a mountain
lion? It was possible, but not probable, right? Maybe it was something harmless. A deer or a
stray cow. Or a really big rabbit.
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#73. Maybe he had a gaydar anti-cloaking device.
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#74. You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and
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#75. I thought I recognized you.
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
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#76. 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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#77. Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him."
"I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.
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#78. And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.
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#86.
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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#87. 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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#88. Maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.
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#89. Some guys say it with flowers," Tucker said. "I bring you arson reports.
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#90. You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.
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#91. That's the thing about sex. So much of it is just plain awkward, clumsy, are-you-sure-this-is-going-to-fit-I-think-they-forgot-to-include-the-washers.
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#92. Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled
welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.
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#93. 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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#94. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
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#95. There was always one person more devoted than the other in a relationship, right?
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#96. 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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#97. He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.
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#98. 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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#99. The only thing I'm sure of is wherever you are is where I belong.
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#100. I think it was Mark Twain who said, Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
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