Quotes from Something Like Spring

“I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“No wheelchair can support damaged self-esteem until it learns to stand upright. No cane can help emotions limp along until they can walk.

A cast or brace can't protect a vulnerable spirit, and not even the strongest painkiller can stop the ache cause by a failed relationship.

No, the only way a broken heart mends itself is with stitches of time and the sticky tape of hastily rearranged dreams.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“I've been waiting for you without even knowing it.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Jason hesitated. “Does it ever stop hurting?” “When you lose someone?” Jace considered this for a moment. “No. Not entirely. There will always be times when you think of him, and it’ll always hurt that it didn’t work out… but it won’t remain the constant pain you feel now. You might go weeks, maybe even months without thinking of him. Then, on the long sleepless nights when you do, you’ll feel a little pang of regret that still stings. That’s all.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Jason nodded. “I’d be willing to give it a shot, although ideally, I would love to be out walking my dog and run into some cute guy walking his dog. Naturally that would lead to us talking. Then we’d start meeting in that same place every day, like little ten-minute dates. After weeks of this, maybe even months, we’d agree to meet without the dogs. Unchaperoned, so to speak. That would be romantic. Way more so than a party or a bar.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Don't be sorry. The only thing love needs to apologize for is being too difficult to understand and too easy to give in to.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“It's called restraint, the part that wants to wander is always there, even for straight people. But commitment is commitment. Once I sign on the dotted line, I'll devote myself to that person only.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“there are people in this world who, after you meet them, you walk away a better person. No matter how okay you were before, they have a way of making you even better.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Just in case, he had asked Ms. Townson to call him if William talked about leaving town. He hadn’t, obviously, making it possible now for him and William to dig through the refrigerator and stand at the counter making sandwiches together, all of which felt delightfully domestic. This would be their life together. Spreading margarine on white bread and debating if Swiss or American cheese was better. With any luck, they would be spending countless days this way, doing little mundane tasks that were so much better with someone to share them with.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Half the time he seems self-centered, the other half it's like he lives solely for Ben.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Strange how the present could become the past so quickly.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“It's much easier to just keep moving, keep avoiding the truth.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Money can't buy love, but it certainly could rent it.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

“Old habits die hard. Some refused to die at all.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Spring

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“Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a "dying god," not "life caught in the spell of death," or "a dead god," as modern interpreters have said. He was the hallucinated voice of a dead king whose admonitions could still carry weight. And since he could still be heard, there is no paradox in the fact that the body from which the voice once came should be mummified, with all the equipment of the tomb providing life's necessities: food, drink, slaves, women, the lot. There was no mysterious power that emanated from him; simply his remembered voice which appeared in hallucination to those who had known him and which could admonish or suggest even as it has before he stopped moving and breathing. And that various natural phenomena such as the whispering of waves could act as the cue for such hallucinations accounts for the belief that Osiris, or the king whose body has ceased to move and is in his mummy cloths, continues to control the flooding of the Nile. Further, the relationship between Horus and Osiris, 'embodied' in each new king and his dead father forever, can only be understood as the assimilation of an hallucinated advising voice into the king's own voice, which then would be repeated with the next generation.”
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“It was with a shock that he felt the touch of Laurent's fingers against the back of his wrist. [...] Laurent was shifting the fabric of his sleeve, sliding it back slightly to reveal the gold underneath, until the wrist cuff he had asked the blacksmith to leave on was exposed between them.
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Their eyes met and he could feel each beat of his heart. A few seconds of silence, a space that lengthened, until Laurent spoke.
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“This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.”
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