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Some guys say it with flowers," Tucker said. "I bring you arson reports.

I can't figure out where you put all that," Tucker observed. "You eat like a horse." "It goes straight to my cock

Most people don't fall out of love at the same time. One person always wants more than the other person can give them. And that ends in bitterness.

The best fiction captures the truth of real life.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

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

A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.

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

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

What the hell was it that people loved so much about the great outdoors? It was just one fatal accident after another waiting to happen.

Wear something sexy." "Asshole." "That will certainly work.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

To find them all in one package ... well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life.

She shrugged another plump shoulder. "I never listened to Porter when he got going."
Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.

People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.

Homosexuality just wasn't what it used to be in the Golden Age of mystery writing.

What the hell were the odds of attracting two stalkers within a year? Was it my aftershave?

Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence."
"It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist."
"Uh-huh.

I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

Like fine wine, I do not travel well. Sure, when I was young, fresh, low in acidity and not so tannic, I was a more adventurous spririt.

The only thing I'm sure of is wherever you are is where I belong.

This is like dating. This is...weird.

They will rue the day," Tucker growled.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.

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

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

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

That's the thing about sex. So much of it is just plain awkward, clumsy, are-you-sure-this-is-going-to-fit-I-think-they-forgot-to-include-the-washers.

Don't say anything against indies. They're very sensitive. One hint of elitism and they'll be organizing a twitcott.

You're crazy about me, Elliot ... "
"You know how I know, Elliot?" ...
"I know how you feel because I feel the same way.

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.

I thought I recognized you.
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously

Jake fried up the fish, cooked rice with garlic, cilantro and green onions. Someday he was going to make some woman a wonderful wife.

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

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

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.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Knowing and believing are two different things.

Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled
welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

You were the first in every way that counted.

Okay, baby?
Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me.

Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

Nothing so simple nor yet so intense as a kiss between lovers.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

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

Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.

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

It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.

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.

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

Did he want to put a cock ring on me or did he fear I wanted to put a wedding ring on him?

It was dark." "I'd know you in the dark, Tucker." Tucker's eyes flashed up to meet Elliot's. He said curtly. "Yeah. I'd know you too.

When I get back to L.A. I'm going to buy myself a Blackberry and a slew of French-cuffed shirts. Possibly a nipple ring.

Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.

'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?'
I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?'

I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?"
"I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.

This could be heaven or this could be hell'?"
"A lot will depend on the mattress.

Cynicism. I liked that in a man.

Just so you know,If I have to be shackled to someone, I'd choose you everytime.

How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.

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

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

Being alone wasn't nearly as lonely as being with people who didn't love you

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.

I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none ... that's just not right.

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.

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

I determinedly weaved my way through the crowd, hauling my medical apparatus behind me like my little red wagon.

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

You feel rain in a used bookstore. The old pages pick up the damp and mustiness like old bones do rheumatism.

Maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.

I want to fuck you in those glasses.

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.

He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.

Why did we all crave love so badly when half the time it left us annihilated?

A muscle moved in Tucker's jaw. He said, You mean you want berating space. I breath better when you are close by.

First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution.

They lived seven hundred miles - and a couple universes - apart.

West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner

'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no return.'

A lot of kids are shocked at the idea of people over thirty having sex. (Max)

Maybe he had a gaydar anti-cloaking device.

My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.

We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.

That's one of the oldest tricks in the world, Adrien-with-an-e.

Drink your coffee
people in Africa are sleeping.

I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde."
That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder

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

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.

Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.

Welcome to the closet, I thought, is it dark in here or is just me

Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stoner hours on murder.

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

There was always one person more devoted than the other in a relationship, right?