Josh Lanyon Quotes

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• I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.

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  Book, Home, Doors

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• Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

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  Believe, Childhood, Philosopher

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• People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

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  People, Way, Needed

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• 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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  Mistake, Thinking, Ems

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• I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

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  Real, Lying, Barricades

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• 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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Character, Advice, Taste

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• 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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  Fear, Puddles, Proud

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• All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

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  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “Fair Game”, p.112, Carina Press

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• 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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  Honest, Fine, Okay

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• 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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  Sleep, Fairy, Gifting

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• To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

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  States, Wells, Packages

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.64, Samhain Publishing

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• 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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  Heart, Color, Broken

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• 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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  Attitude, Mind, Littles

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• We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.

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  Sweet, Years, Two

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• Do you still do the clubs?” Jake shakes his head. “You do the clubs because you can’t find what you need at home. I’ve got everything I need. I’ve got the answer to needs I didn’t even know I had.

  Josh Lanyon

  Home, Jake, Needs

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• I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

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  College, Gentleman, Please

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• Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.

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  Sweet, Jake, Hot

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• The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

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  Witty, Reading, Too Much

  Josh Lanyon (2009). “The Dickens with Love”, p.20, Samhain Publishing

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• 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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Firsts, Grows

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• He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

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  Answers, Want, Lied

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• 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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  Heart, Hot, Looks

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• I dug out the powder blue cashmere cardigan my mother Lisa gave me the Christmas before last, pulled on my oldest, softest Levi’s. Comfort clothes; the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body. Lately there had been a shortage of hugs in my life. Lately there had been a shortage of warm, living bodies.

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  Mother, Blue, Clothes

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• The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

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  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• 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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  Heart, School, People

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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