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1 " Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents.""Your parents?""Yeah. They really do exist.""It's eight-thirty.""Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules.""Doesn't that become tiresome?""Inordinately. "
― Todd Young , Jumbo
2 " It was written in a red felt marker, and his first thought was that it was from Sarah, though it didn't look like a girl's writing. A girl would make it pretty, with kisses and smiley faces, and she would do it in colored pens and make an envelope as well. "
3 " Somewhere forward, somewhere in the future, the summer was locked in the snow. Waiting. More a promise, more a dream, than anything you could really believe in. "
4 " Mitchell had heard somewhere that people didn't stop growing until they were twenty-one. Was Tadd going to end up with a cock that hung to his knees? Mitchell smiled. That certainly couldn't happen. "
5 " Hell, Mitchell thought. He really figured everyone was gay when it came right down to it. "
6 " Tadd nodded. "I'm the fly specialist.""You collect them?" Jake said."No. I mean butterfly. Swimming. "
7 " Is it okay if I wear my clothes?""Your clothes?""Yeah. I'm going to take my sweater off, and open my jeans - but I'd like to do it just like that. I'll leave my socks on."In all Mitchell's imaginations of being fucked, no one had ever had clothes on. "