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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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

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  Moving, People, Tables

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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.

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  Character, Advice, Taste

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Keys, Voice, Silence

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• I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...

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  Sorry, Gay, Men

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• I love you," Jake whispered. "Are you strong enough for this?" I made myself comfortable. Said over my shoulder, "Sure." "Would you tell me if you weren't?" I grinned. "Maybe. I can't think of a nicer way to commit suicide." "That's good. I can't think of a more pleasant way to commit murder.

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  Suicide, Strong, Love You

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• She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.” Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.

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  Successful, Secret, Lasts

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• I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize that’s not logical. I realize that if I’d made the mistakes Verlane has made, I’d want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I just…” “What?” I met his eyes. “I just need to come first for someone, Guy.

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  Mistake, Eye, Thinking

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• He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.” “I’m lucky that way,” I said. “So are you two square again?” I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. “Well, he’s pretty square,” I said. “I’m just a rectangular guy.” With latent triangular tendencies.

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  Squares, Two, Guy

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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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• Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.

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  Pain, Ideas, Worry

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

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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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• 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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  Dark, Hey, Hiding

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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 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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