Merith > Merith's Quotes

“Home is the prison you always return to.”
― John Goode

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you feel. If you’re still craving cocaine, go ahead. You’re safe. You can crave it all you want, but I won’t let go, and if you still feel like you can’t trust yourself in the morning, and it’s what you want, I’ll drive you to rehab myself. Okay?" ~ Max”
― Josh Lanyon, Come Unto These Yellow Sands

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

“I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.”
― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King

“And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.”
― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King

“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

“Rick said, "Is there some place we can go and talk?"
"You want to talk?," Keir raised an eyebrow. "I never thought I'd see the day."
"Nah, I want to tell you this joke I heard."
Keir nodded, patient. "Shoot."
"Two Irish cops walk into a bar. The first cop says..." Rick's voice dropped. He said gruffly, "I love you. Come home."
Keir managed to keep his voice steady. "What's the other cop say?"
The sweetness of Rick's smile was like a kick in his chest. "That's what I'm here to find out, boyo.”
― Josh Lanyon, In Sunshine or in Shadow

“Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“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

“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?"

"I'm not usually suspected of murdering them."

"You have been as long as I've known you.”
― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing

“Shut off the door and don't let the light hit you in the ass on your way out.”
― Ethan Day, Anything for You

“You cant ever know anyone completely, can you? I mean, we're ever changing, maturing, growing...Each day we're confronted by new outside influences that have us forever making decisions that take us one or two steps in one direction or the other - continually altering our course. - Jason Miller”
― Ethan Day, Anything for You

“Warning: This book contains graphic language, sex, lies, intrigue, clowns, kleptomania, anal sex, oral sex, mutual masturbation, bad driving, good cooking, and the missing head of a Justin Timberlake statue. Not for the sour of disposition.”
― L.B. Gregg, Catch Me If You Can

“What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Camp Hell

“I really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Among the Living

“My waking life probably gave my subconscious an inferiority complex.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Criss Cross

“I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, GhosTV

“Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing.”
― Jordan Castillo Price, Brazen

“I think it's romantic," she said mostly to Edward. "Cursed to live their lives in the shadows, to be together only under the cover of darkness... hiding their love from the sunlight."

"They're gay, honey," said Emma, "not vampires.”
― Z.A. Maxfield, Crossing Borders

“I'm so sorry," said Kevin. "So selfish. I'm actually totally selfish, but I've been trying to cut back.”
― Z.A. Maxfield, The Long Way Home

“But first, I want the pleasure of telling you that you are fired. I fire you. I fire you and all your relatives. I fire your ancestors and your descendants. I fire the very air you breathe and the ground you walk upon.”
― Z.A. Maxfield, Stirring Up Trouble

“Maybe she was a little dark but she sort of sparkled with it.

Jacob about Muse”
― Z.A. Maxfield, Jacob's Ladder