Quote

I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.

Josh Lanyon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Josh Lanyon
Time
Books
Opened
Like
Waiting
Welcome
Felt
Liked
Home
Door
Firsts
Looked
Welcoming
Book
Saws
Smiled
First
Sitting
Surrounded
Right
Doors
Floor

More quotes by Josh Lanyon

Image
I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
Josh Lanyon
Image
I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Do you still do the clubs?” Jake shakes his head. “You do the clubs because you can’t find what you need at home. I’ve got everything I need. I’ve got the answer to needs I didn’t even know I had.
Josh Lanyon
Image
He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked...fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?
Josh Lanyon
Image
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Josh Lanyon
Image
He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.
Josh Lanyon
Image
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
Josh Lanyon
Image
...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
Josh Lanyon
Image
To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
Josh Lanyon
Image
Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.
Josh Lanyon
Image
I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.
Josh Lanyon
Image
I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?
Josh Lanyon
Image
I thought I recognized you. Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
Josh Lanyon
Image
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
Josh Lanyon
Image
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Josh Lanyon