Josh Lanyon Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Jobs, Long, People

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Couple, Heart, Breathing

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ears, Odd, Formal

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Love You, Home, Eyebrows

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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

  Josh Lanyon

  Letting Go, Morning, Night

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

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

  Josh Lanyon

  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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Suicide, Strong, Love You

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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?

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Heart, Gay

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

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  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.

  Josh Lanyon

  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

  Josh Lanyon

  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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Potatoes, Potato Chips, Wanted

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

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Attitude, Mind, Littles

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, Hot, Looks

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• You were the first in every way that counted.

  Josh Lanyon

  Way, Firsts

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Mother, Blue, Clothes

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

  Josh Lanyon

  Witty, Reading, Too Much

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

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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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, School, People

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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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• 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.

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  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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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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• 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.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sweet, Years, Two

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