Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“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, Sort of Stranger Than Fiction

“Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered."
He stared at me with disbelief. [...]
"Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

“I thought I recognized you."
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people”
― Josh Lanyon, Snowball in Hell

“Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin.

That about summed it up.”
― Josh Lanyon, Sort of Stranger Than Fiction

“You couldn't hurt a fly."

Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat.

The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Horse

“And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dickens with Love

“Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice.

Before or after the accident?”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that."

"You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it."

"Believe it," I told HIM.

J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien.

Rest easy; you're not.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?”
― Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say

“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, The Dark Tide

“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fair Game

“
Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice.
From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“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, A Dangerous Thing

“He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“I couldn't see him putting up with the restraints and discipline of being a Bottom - he wouldn't have been able to remember half the rules - and no sane person would allow Rob to be his Top.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“This is like dating. This is...weird.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing