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The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

Josh Lanyon

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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.
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Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.
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Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
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I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
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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.
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He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
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How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.
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You don't look so hot, Adrien. Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day. His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. Tell me about it.
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I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.
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I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
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I noticed you right away. She gave me an approving look. I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul. Uh...sorry, I said. It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...
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I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.
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I know you've all heard the advice, Show, don't tell. The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.
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I thought I recognized you. Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
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Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy
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...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
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Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.
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I dug out the powder blue cashmere cardigan my mother Lisa gave me the Christmas before last, pulled on my oldest, softest Levi’s. Comfort clothes the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body. Lately there had been a shortage of hugs in my life. Lately there had been a shortage of warm, living bodies.
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He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
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All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
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