“Because people should not be punished for loving and hoping and holding their hearts open.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“It's a kilt, dumbass. It's only a skirt if I'm wearing underwear.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“[...]Are both of you...?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Just then Dante leaned against him, brow between his shoulder blades for a moment, so tentatively Griff held his breath. His voice was almost sheepish. “Nah. Everyone knows I was born defective. They didn’t instal you until later.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“You tell him for me: if he fucks with you, if he lays one Russian knuckle on you, your buddy is coming after him and someone's gonna need a screen door to fish out the pieces.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“People need space; families need air; love needs light. Like Mrs. Anastagio always said, ―You need enough rooms to love someone properly.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Your life needs an airbag. I swear, Anastagio, you should have come equipped when you were born.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close.
"Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but she spoke first.
"Huh-yeah. Thanks, cockbreath.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Dante chuckled low. "There's my blush."”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“So damn jealous! Like I can see anyone but you.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“No. Look, the mutual tug paid extra.” Dante mimed jerking and squirting without looking embarrassed, which only made Griff more embarrassed. “And the
stuff you did at the end bumped our fee even—”
“I know, man. Sorry about—”
“—more. Bullshit, sorry! Blowing your jazz on me got us a three hundred dollar bonus. Didja know that?” Dante rolled his eyes and waved away the worry.
“Dude, if I could get a fee every time you squirted on me, I’d camp under your bed and have you doing it three times a day.”
Help me, Jesus.
Griff’s eyes honest-to-God bugged at that.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Griff groaned and covered Dante's loose mouth with his own, driving his tongue in to steal the stars from his eyes, the fire from his mind.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Everything was so nutty with Loretta, all her reactions. She used tantrums like most people used sedatives”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“I'll take Classic 69 and semen-swapping for $300”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“The smile on her face was almost Dante's. Tears pricked his eyes, then hers, while all those impossible things passed between them. While the truth was sending down roots and throwing out branches until it filled the silent room with impossible blossoms.
I love him.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Griff's pretty neat on his own. Scottish hedge!”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“He needed me to make it okay.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“The world is different, but folks are the same, huh?”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Because I love you!"
There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.
His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“I want you to move in with me, man."
"Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Griff held his breath while Dante's hand slid against the side of his soft bulge. He tried to remember that they were just two friends joking around on the corner in Brooklyn.(...) "Yeah. I coulda…you don't have to play undersea treasure hunt in my damn pants."
"Gotta watch out for that electric eel." Dante closed his hand over the ring and winked and pulled his fist out.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Hey, Alek, you want us to, you know, weed-whack at all?" Dante tugged at his pubic hair. "Clip the curlies."
"Uh, no. Our members prefer natural hair. Are both of you...?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen. My brother taught me."
Jesus. "I'm not." Griff's eyes bulged. He'd never thought about trimming down there.
Dante gave his crotch a once over. "Griff's pretty neat on his own. Scottish hedge!”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Whatsamatter?" Dante scraped a hand over his abs, his neck, the side of his face--collecting his jizz. He sucked his pleasure off his lower lip. "I gave myself a fuckin' necklace.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Dante climbed back on top of him, sitting on Griff's round butt to knead his shoulders. "I just wanna try. It'll be fine. No big deal. Maybe a massage first? Two dudes. That'd be okay right?"
What was he asking?
"And then, I want you" -Dante leaned forward, pressing his chest against Griff's muscular back, lips against his ear -"to fucking turn yourself loose on me.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Perhaps that was his way of punishing himself. Masochism. People torture themselves more terribly than anyone else could.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“Maybe a massage first? Two dudes. That’d be okay, right?” What was he asking? “And then, I want you”—Dante leaned forward, pressing his chest against Griff’s muscular back, lips against his ear—“to fucking turn yourself loose on me.”
― Damon Suede, quote from Hot Head
“If you act “ marriage or nothing” they generally give you marriage. I was very lucky. I went to his head, but he couldn’t stand the pace. He got a nice tombstone and I got the parlour.”
― Winifred Watson, quote from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. —Galileo By:”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from The Consequences Series Box Set
“All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything that we supposedly live by and supposedly die by — whether it's religious scriptures or makeshift slogans — all of it is show business. The rise and fall of empires — show business. Science, philosophy, all of the disciplines under the sun, and even the sun itself, as well as all those other clumps of matter wobbling about in the blackness up there —' he said to me, pointing out the window beside the coffee-shop booth in which we sat, 'show business, show business, show business.' 'And what about dreams?' I asked, thinking I might have hit upon an exception to his dogmatic view, or at least one that he would accept as such. 'You mean the dreams of the sort we are having at this moment or the ones we have when we're fortunate enough to sleep?”
― Thomas Ligotti, quote from Teatro Grottesco
“I pushed until I felt his [Donovan's] body grow still, the tendons in his neck relaxing. I pushed until I felt the mouth beneath the pillow droop, one last dull groan fading into silence. And I kept pushing, because I couldn't bear to pull the pillow away to see what I'd done.
"You're free," I said. I closed my eyes, saw Donovan as he had been. One last smile, then he faded.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, quote from Solitary
“I said I wouldn't leave her.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from Bevor ich sterbe
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