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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• 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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• 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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• 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’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

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  Evil, President, Faces

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• When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.

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  Fear, Loss, Dying Slowly

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

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• I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

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  College, Gentleman, Please

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

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  Monday, Coffee, Breakfast

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• You were the first in every way that counted.

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  Way, Firsts

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• Knowing and believing are two different things.

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  Believe, Two, Knowing

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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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• 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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