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1 " I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals moved into my house, and I was suddenly awake. "
― Amy Lane , Dex in Blue (Johnnies, #2)
2 " Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight. "
3 " That smile, right there?”“Yeah?”“I’ve known you my entire life. You only smile like that for me. "
4 " We’ll fix it in the morning, sweetheart. You can’t save the world after 1:00 a.m. Not even you. "
5 " I know. But maybe that’s what growing up gets you. You get better. You stop waiting for the bad stuff to happen and maybe enjoy the good, you know? "
6 " Maybe that’s why his lovers hadn’t worked out so far. Maybe before you got someone who would fight to have you, you had to be ready to kill or die for them first. "
7 " He didn’t scream hysterically or stand up and kick the headstone or any of that. He put his face on his knees and listened as the wind from the mountains mercilessly leveled everything in its path. He remembered the person who had helped him fly with the wind instead of being beaten down by it, and he cried quietly into his knees, finally knowing how the big of the sky could make a person feel as alone as a heartbeat in space. "
8 " Nothing,” he said softly. “It’s just a real nice turtle, that’s all.” “You "
9 " I’m just asking for the mail,” he said apologetically. “It’s not like we "
10 " it winds up in the Pacific Ocean, but when we piss out our coffee at my folks’ place, it ends up in the Atlantic one. "
11 " IN THE end it took them two days, four planes, a bus ride from Reno, and everything but a canoe to get the hell home. They walked into their own house on Christmas Eve, dropped their luggage, kicked a groggy (and naked) Ethan to the couch, hit the shower, and passed out for the next twelve hours. "
