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41 " ~Does it bother you that you didn’t become a famous actor? That you didn’t get a break?~~David, there aren’t any guarantees in life. Not for your friends who want to be all of sorts of things. Not for you. The only thing we can do every single day we wake up is try to do the things that we can do the best; enjoy the things we get, and pay attention to when and why we’re happy. I didn’t know what I really wanted until I held you in my arms. In that minute, the very first minute they brought you to me wrapped in that blanket, I knew my little dream about myself was nothing in comparison.~ "
― Dan Skinner , Memorizing You
42 " I can’t leave what I love behind. "
43 " I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist. "
― Dan Skinner , The Price of Dick
44 " Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it’s better than the question mark if you don’t. "
― Dan Skinner , A Summer of Guiltless Sex
45 " There’s quite a difference between fucking what you can get, and fucking something that blows the brains out of your skull like a 44 Magnum. "
46 " Love does not make cowards. It creates heroes. "
― Dan Skinner , The Bible Boys
47 " He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out. "
48 " This is where you're going to tell me you're gay, isn't it? "
― Dan Skinner , The Misadventures of Doc and Dirk Vol. 1
49 " When the landscape of real life gets ugly, we can pick up a book of fantasy and find a beautiful world, all green and filled with sunshine. When we can’t find an end to something sad, there’s always a novel where everything turns out okay and makes us feel better about things. And even though we know they’re made up, we think that maybe there’s just a possibility, in spite of all the ugliness around us, we really do have a chance to make it all work out. Because we read it. And we wanted it to be real. "
50 " Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff "
― Dan Skinner , Xperiment
51 " Many marriages end up failing because the people that start into them over time become different people. What love had found as common ground, time separates into distinct territories. It’s inevitable. As intelligent beings we grow by changing. No one stays the same. The person you fall in love with will always be someone different ten years down the pike. The same was true for friendships. Even curious friendships like ours. "
52 " Nature doesn't tell you what's wrong. It only let's you know what's right. "
53 " I have only one thing to say. I’m an aggressive extrovert. A warning is advisable. I hunt down people lurking in corners and shadows, and absolutely no one is safe "
― Dan Skinner
54 " All those millions of stars and planets and it only takes three to make something important. The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. And here we are. Life. "
55 " His focus had been so narrow that the world became a mirrored reflection of his attitude—as "
56 " Everything in me ached to be with him. It was worse than an obsession. It was a need. "
57 " He knew for the first time ever that someone existed who actually cared for him. "
58 " At the top, he dipped the tip of his tongue in and tasted Caleb’s essence. Delicious. Another jewel-like drop appeared, as if by magic. Matt stole it as well. "
59 " Why do we cry when we’re happy?” I asked. “It’s one of those things. I don’t think it makes us less one way, or more the other. I think it just is. I don’t think emotions have a gender preference. "
60 " And then when you are actually in the moment and you see the time slipping away from you, you realize it wasn’t just something people said in songs and poems and books. It was something those people had actually felt and been through. "