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• Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?

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  Voice, Seductive, Looks

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• And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?

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• Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people

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  People, Happens

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Snowball in Hell”, p.153, Carina Press

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• You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

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  Hurt, Air, Looks

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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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• One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

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  Fall, Getting Older, Bed

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• Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that." "You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." "Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.

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  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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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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• Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.

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  Coffee, Sleep, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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