“But here’s the thing about family, Ryan…blood doesn’t mean shit. You just need to surround yourself with people who do love you, and they become your family.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Jamie Canning was my first crush and my first love. But he was never mine to have.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I’ve been walking around with a hollow chasm in my chest where my heart used to be.
But that gaping hole is full again. My heart is back, because Jamie is here.
And he fucking loves me.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Our mouths fit together so perfectly. Every time we kiss, I fall even more in love with him, and it has nothing to do with sex or lust. It's him. His closeness and his scent and the way he soothes me.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“My dick and I reached an understanding.” “Yeah? And what’s that?” I ask curiously. He shrugs. “We both like you.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I…” He clears his throat. “I’d let you do it, though.” My hand freezes in his hair. “You would?” Wes nods. “I’d let you do anything to me, Canning.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I hold him as close as I dare. Even if my entire life goes to shit before breakfast tomorrow, I’ll always have this night.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Like me, Jamie has two speeds: horny and asleep.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Because I’d wanted to touch him more than I’d wanted my next breath.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I love you. The words are always right there on the tip of my naughty tongue. I swallow them back like I need to and say something much more practical instead. “Have you ever been acquainted with your prostate?”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“God, when I go gay, I really go gay.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Ready to come harder than you’ve ever come in your life?” I ask solemnly, lifting one of his knees up. He smiles. “You sure you want to put that much pressure on yourself, dude?” “No pressure. Just fact. Science has proven it.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Why hasn’t anyone ever told me the prostate was some kind of magical pleasure zone? Are there unicorns and orgasm fairies dancing around in there?”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“and—wait, I’m sorry, did you call me Ryan Theodore?” She waves her hand as if the question is inconsequential. “I don’t know your middle name so I had to make one up. Because, sweetie, you really needed to be middle-named for mangling those poor onions.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Remove this quote from your collection
“His mourh twitches "My dick and I reached an understanding"
"Yeah? And what's that?" I ask curiously
He shrugs. "We both like you"
Fuck yeah.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day Pat walked into the gym and found us—me, flat on my stomach with Jamie’s knee digging into the back of my neck, while I yelled “Ballsack!” over and over again.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“You really do love me, huh?”
“Always have.” I swallowed hard. “Always will.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Last I saw him, he was sucking on a bottle of whiskey like he was trying to make it come.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“What are you waiting for, Ryan? Suck it already.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“What kind of city doesn’t have a football team? Explain that to me, Wes.” “They do have one,” I point out. “The Argonauts.” Richard narrows his eyes. “Is it an NFL team?” “Well, no, it’s CFL, but—” “Then they don’t have a team,” he says firmly. I stifle a laugh.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“You acted like a total douchecanoe”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Jesus. Good thing he’s not a traffic cop, because he’s sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“I’m attracted to women, no doubt about it. I’m also attracted to men, apparently. Wonderful. Complicated fellow, my dick.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“You’re saying you don’t want me?”
Aw hell. “No, I’m saying this is a bad idea.”
“You’re the king of bad ideas,” he reminds me. “At least this one ends with both of us feeling good.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“Summer’s a total cocktease.” He shrugs, repeating himself. “It always ends.” He’s right about that. Summer always ends.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“The question now isn’t whether I want to fool around with this man. The question is how I’m ever going to give it up.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
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“Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow & Claw
“As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.”
― Holly Black, quote from Valiant
“I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Hammer of Thor
“a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Six Wives of Henry VIII
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from Letters to a Young Poet
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