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1 " Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true. "
― Ben Monopoli , The Painting of Porcupine City (Mateo, #1)
2 " Because it’s never really sex until someone squirts. "
― Ben Monopoli , Homo Action Love Story! A tall tale
3 " I was bi and my heart was off-limits to no one, at least not for any reason like what they had between their legs or whether their chests were flat or round. And maybe because of that I never really could believe or understand that Griff, or anyone else, could be deterred from falling in love by such a trivial thing as gender. "
― Ben Monopoli , The Cranberry Hush
4 " The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists. "
5 " Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second? "
6 " It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard. "
7 " One perk of living alone is there’s no one to judge me. "
8 " I bet you know someone who could use a few naked jocks in their life. "
― Ben Monopoli
9 " The fishes wake up early. "
10 " Life’s not a porno. "
11 " I knew from the first moment I saw him that I’d never turn down anything this guy asked of me. "
12 " Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in high school. "
13 " Never apologise for being the good guy. "
14 " I have learned... that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors... that shade all the new things you feel. "
15 " Young people think they are invincible, that nothing bad will ever happen to them, and then something changes: they fall in love. And the world begins to seem a lot more fragile. "
16 " I have learned, though, that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors...that shade all the new things you feel. "
17 " A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a writer.”“You’re a writer? I’m a writer.”“What do you write?”“Stories. Books. A book. Fiction.”“Fiction. Pfft. That’s not writing.”“What do you write?”“I write the truth.”“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to be factual to be true.”“Says you. Have you been published?”“As a matter of fact I have. My novel sold over 65,000 copies.”“All to your mom.”“My mom didn’t even know about it. "
18 " And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit. "
19 " For as long as we can remember,” [Griff] said, “I mean literally our whole conscious lives, time has been neatly divided into semesters and years. Each year completely distinguishable and unique. First grade, third grade. We didn’t measure by age, we measured by grade. Like I know I broke my arm in sixth grade but I’d have to do the math to figure out what year that was, or how old I was. "
20 " You know you’re in a tough place in your life when you decide now’s a good time to start Moby Dick. "
