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1 " Well Okay" Carter said "so the the average homosexual has five hundred sex partners a year, but I've been here almost a week and you don't have sex with anybody. Is there something wrong with you? "
― Marshall Thornton , My Favorite Uncle
2 " So, Carter, if you need to talk about anything, you know, about being gay. If there are things that you don't understand or things that confuse you, you can ask me. Anything. You can ask me anything."Carter studied him for a moment and asked. "Who's your cell provider? "
3 " There's only three times you see a look like that on a guy's face, when he's looking at the world's best basketball player, when he's getting an autograph from like the best action hero ever, or when he's totally in love with another guy. "
4 " You think love is about sharing minutiae. I think love is about making decisions with the other person in mind. "
5 " You live your life like it's some kind of nuclear fallout shelter. The walls are three feet thick, you have enough food to last through nuclear winter and you're the only one in there. "
6 " He had to admit that Ricky didn't pick up strangers. He got names, numbers, professions, life stories, hopes, dreams, and ambitions, then he had sex with them and duped them. It was casual sex, but with enough information that Ricky didn't have to feel like a slut. "
7 " I didn't crawl out from under a rock, you know.""I never thought you crawled out from under a rock. I thought you were a science experiment gone awry. "
8 " He'd only read a little of Bible, but from everything he heard about Jesus, he didn't thing the man would be especially happy about what his followers did in his name. "
9 " Television viewing in Carter's home had been divided into three categories: shows he could watch when his parents were home, shows he could watch when his parents were gone but his sisters were home, and shows he could only watch if he was alone. "
10 " Immediately, Carter remembered one of the statistics they'd quoted at The Renewal Center. "The average homosexual male has five hundred sexual partners a year." He was sure that's what they'd said. It did seem like an awful lot, even to Carter who was almost always horny. It was 1.369 sexual encounters a day, which sounded like a lot of work just to be average. "
11 " These days you don't need a country to have a flag, you don't need to win an election to become president, and you don't need an enemy to have a war. "
12 " Martin hesitated. This was a definite yes and no answer. Yes, gay guys picked up strangers on the street, for that matter sometimes so did lesbians. And certainly straight people did whether they'd admit it or not. Of course, straight people were encouraged not to pick up people on the street, while gays and lesbians were encouraged not to exist at all. But none of that was the point. "
13 " We went to bed at a normal time, and then I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of him fucking some guy!""Are you sure you're related? Can we get a DNA test? "
14 " Hey.How's it going?"Martin always butched it up a little with his brother.He tried to sound like a mechanic.Why a mechanic?Martin wasn't sure.His own mechanic was gay, but he didn't sound gay.Maybe that was what he was going for-gay but not gay. "
15 " Being a healthy broke person was better than being an unhealthy broke person. Besides, he needed to think. And to be honest, most of what he did at the gym was more like thinking than exercising. "
16 " The kid was cramping Martin's style. Martin's style was drama-free, peace, and quiet. It did not include slamming doors, difficult personal questions, or conversations with teenagers about sex. "
17 " Martin shampooed his hair and wished his life was more like a movie. Everything in a movie completed. Relationships began, they developed and they ended or went on happily forever. All in less than two hours. Life, though was not like a movie, it was ragged, an outdated map with new streets added whose direction you could never quite discern, or a maze filled with suddenly appearing walls and aimless corridors. Even when a movie didn’t have a happy ending, it had a logical ending that you could live with. Life had endings that you didn’t know were endings, or endings that you thought were endings and then they weren’t. "
18 " one of the hardest things to accept in life is that people love you as much as they can. It’s almost never enough, but it’s all there is. "
19 " Carter thought the Universe was a lot like God, except that the Universe didn't have a book telling you how to be and who to hate. "
20 " Well, if we're done insulting each other I guess we can leave. "
