Josh Lanyon Quotes

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Books Cops Heart Home Sleep

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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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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The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

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Opera

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

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He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)

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Writing, Mean, Cat

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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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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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Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.

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Dream, Jake, Nightmare

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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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'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'

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Stress, Kissing, Feelings

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Knowing and believing are two different things.

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Believe, Two, Knowing

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Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

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Gay, Men, Hands

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You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

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Smart, Faces, Kind

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I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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Valentines Day, Renaissance, Valentine's Day

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