Ben Lilley > Ben's Quotes

“Honey, are you being safe?'
'I wear my seat belt, yes.'
'Does this Rob Lovely wear a seat belt too?'
Matty sighed. 'Mother, seat belts should be worn at all times when in a moving vehicle. Didn't you teach me that?'
'So long as we're both talking about condoms here, then I'll leave it.'
'Consider it left.”
― Leta Blake, Training Season

“But suddenly I was dreaming of cock. Fisting it, sucking it, riding it, in glorious fucking Technicolor.”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“First we talked about girls. Not girls like any of us had ever seen in the flesh, but those girls in magazines with huge tits and puffed-up lips and sleepy eyes, like they'd been fucked hard all night and they were mostly pouting now because the guy finally pulled out. We talked about those girls a lot. And it was all talk.”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?'

'Nope.' I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. 'Nobody does. That's why I remain undiagnosed.' ”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Meatworks

“Why are you so upset? You were almost late to the Olympics, and this isn’t even close to as important,” Rob said.
“Don’t throw the Olympics in my face, bitch.”
“I’m not your bitch,” Rob countered as he stepped on the gas. “I’m pretty sure you’re my bitch.”
“Sure, eat some come from a guy’s ass, and he’s all, ‘you’re my bitch now.’ Wouldn’t my mother be proud?”
― Leta Blake, Training Season

“He who lives by the sword dies by my knife!”
― Matthew Woodring Stover

“Everything’s forever until it isn’t.”
― Matthew Stover, Caine's Law

“The Room was darkened, and Rob struck a match to light candles. As the comforting scent of jasmine and vanilla lifted from the candles around him, Matty took in the dark sheets on the bed - the ones Rob liked because they showed Matty's jizz better.”
― Leta Blake, Training Season

“Wait, this guy has a kid?” Elliot gasped over the phone. “What hot mess have you gotten yourself into, girl?”
“Shut up, Elliot. Like you haven’t slept with a load of hairy daddies in your time.”
“But they weren’t, like, actual daddies.”
― Leta Blake, Training Season

“Forget it. It’s on Rob’s tab. That he never pays.”
Rob shrugged. “Send the gay mafia to collect and I’ll pony up.”
“I’ve got my request for assistance in already, but they’re kind of busy fighting for our right to join the heteros in the misery of marriage at the moment.”
― Leta Blake, Training Season

“The first mate slid, almost bonelessly, down the wall. Baltsaros shoved his softening cock almost angrily back into his pants; he felt strangely unsatisfied and frustrated. Tom looked up at the captain with wet, red eyes as Baltsaros undid the belt that was looped around him.

What was it about Jon that had him so wound up?”
― Bey Deckard, Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas

“Tom is dangerous, he reminded himself. He means you no good.”
― Bey Deckard, Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas

“I ain’t going to kiss ye, poppet. Just keep still like a good little lad.”
― Bey Deckard, Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas

“Don’t! Oh god… don’t… I’m going to…” he gasped. He couldn’t say the words. I’m going to cum.”
― Bey Deckard, Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas

“What do I see? I see a man who has higher and thicker walls than I will ever have. I see a terrifying beast enveloped and hidden by a cleverly fashioned mask. I see tears that will never fall. I see blood and death. I see a heart that devours itself. I see the promise of a pain and deceit. I see a lot of things, Baltsaros. Many of them frightening,” Jon said.

Baltsaros showed no surprise over Jon’s words. Instead, he leaned towards him, intrigued. “And you’re not afraid,” he said.”
― Bey Deckard, Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas

“There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact. . . .except for my father. That was my duty.”
― Steig Larsson, The Millennium Trilogy

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.”
― John Irving, In One Person

“Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?”
― John Irving, In One Person