Josh Lanyon Quotes - Page 3

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• I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you feel. If you’re still craving cocaine, go ahead. You’re safe. You can crave it all you want, but I won’t let go, and if you still feel like you can’t trust yourself in the morning, and it’s what you want, I’ll drive you to rehab myself. Okay?" ~ Max

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  Letting Go, Morning, Night

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.98, Samhain Publishing

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• Rick said, "Is there some place we can go and talk?" "You want to talk?," Keir raised an eyebrow. "I never thought I'd see the day." "Nah, I want to tell you this joke I heard." Keir nodded, patient. "Shoot." "Two Irish cops walk into a bar. The first cop says..." Rick's voice dropped. He said gruffly, "I love you. Come home." Keir managed to keep his voice steady. "What's the other cop say?" The sweetness of Rick's smile was like a kick in his chest. "That's what I'm here to find out, boyo.

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  Love You, Home, Eyebrows

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• 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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  Ears, Odd, Formal

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• And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.

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  Couple, Heart, Breathing

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• He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

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  Horse, Selfish, Greedy

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• I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?

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  Book, Heart, Gay

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

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• 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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  Jobs, Long, People

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• Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

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  Writing, Murder Mysteries, Mystery

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

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• I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

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  Easy, Rest Easy, Get Involved

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

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• ...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

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  Jake, Looks, Cop

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

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• 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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  People, Principles, Murder

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• What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.

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  Pain, Fall, Light

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• 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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  Oil, Laughing, Gold

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• Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

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  Book, Old Things, Vintage

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• If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

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  Thinking, Objectivity, Skills

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.21, Samhain Publishing

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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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• And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

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  Horse, Selfish, Arrogance

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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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• 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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• 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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• Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.

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  Missing, Opinion, Miss Me

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.13, Samhain Publishing

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• Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

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  Thinking, Mind, Looks

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• 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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  Potatoes, Potato Chips, Wanted

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.117, Samhain Publishing

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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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• 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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