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1 " All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs. "
― , Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction
2 " Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots. "
3 " Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!”“Um, no. I’m actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this weekend to catch up on cleaning test tubes. "
4 " The end has to come from within. "
5 " Come on, man. You can’t always be looking over your shoulder, you know? At the good stuff or the bad stuff. You got to look ahead, or else you miss the good stuff that’s still coming. "
6 " Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bear to be around each other. "
7 " Nothing matters until it hurts. "
8 " You know, it’s how you feel about someone being really ill that tells you whether you love them. Not whether you enjoy sex with them. Or whether you’re faithful to them. The threat of death takes you to the heart of it. "
9 " I’m your big bad wolf. "
10 " They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal. "
11 " It was odd how people in their forties often lost faith in their own maturity and decided to step backwards. "
12 " Your heart is known in Heaven,” the angel said. “And all that you are. "
13 " Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to consider.“Come to salvation! "
14 " Nothing is sadder than an old whore. "
15 " Nothing is as real as dreams. "
