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1 " Sex was like the wooden horse of Troy, he decided. How uncomplicated a gift it seemed at first, but once you had let it through the gate how many unexpected dangers might be found to have stowed themselves away inside. "
― Anthony McDonald , Adam
2 " Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about "
― Anthony McDonald , Getting Orlando
3 " Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey "
4 " It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one. "
5 " When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence. "
― Anthony McDonald , Matches in the Dark: 13 Tales of Gay Men
6 " I've never had a love letter before. Not from anyone. It is a most wonderful thing to receive. I realise that it makes a present to me of your life, not just your love. "
7 " It did look rather nice, actually, though it was hardly something to masturbate about. "
8 " Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years. "
9 " A ship there is and she sails the sea. She’s loaded deep as deep can be. But not so deep as the love I’m in. I know not if I sink or swim. "
― Anthony McDonald , Gay Romance at Cambridge (Gay Romance Series)
10 " A one-night stand became a fling if you repeated things the second night, that was an easy one, a question of maths. But when did a fling metamorphose into an affair? At what stage did an affair become a relationship? And how long could even one of those be relied upon to last? "
11 " Tom & Christopher and Their Kind. "
― Anthony McDonald , The Dog in the Chapel (The Dog in the Chapel, #1)
12 " Then, as the sky became a luminous dark blue tent overhead a nightingale uttered his quiet introductory long toots. Then he began to sing. Another started up, then more and more, until it seemed that streams and rivers of silver sound were pouring through the blackness of the surrounding woods. "
― Anthony McDonald , Gay Romance in Majorca (Gay Romance, #3)
13 " The real being the good that lies in the human heart,' I heard myself saying. 'The real, and the greatest good among all things,' said George, 'is love. "
14 " We hadn't got round to discussing whether our previous relationships had supported threesomes or not. I mean, we'd only been together two days, and that's a subject that doesn't usually come up until you've been together at least a week. "
15 " Another voice, another idea. ‘Love, past a certain age, is cutting each other’s toe-nails. "
― Anthony McDonald , Adam's Star
16 " If he needed his faith and the love of his God in his dying months then he needed those things and should have them. That was more important than whether God existed, or whether the tiny speck in creation that was Tom believed in Him or not. Tom "
― Anthony McDonald , Dog Roses (The Dog in the Chapel, #3)
17 " Sex was like the wooden horse of Troy, he decided. How uncomplicated a gift it seemed at first, but once you had let it through the gate how many unexpected dangers might be found to have stowed themselves away inside "
18 " and then snuggled beneath the cosy covers happily masturbating each other to climax after climax, "
19 " I know that with Michel and me there’s a feeling that the music’s stopped now and we’re relieved to find ourselves sitting together in the same chair. We don’t want to get out of it now. "
20 " Going this way in the early evening the sun was straight ahead of us and the forests we drove through looked almost black, except where the trees thinned out and we saw pasture between them, shining through at us with the brilliance of buttercups. "
