Alex > Alex's Quotes

“the church should just stay out of people's pants.”
― Alex Sanchez, The God Box

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”
― James Baldwin

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“If I told you that I wanted to spend my days and nights with you, live with you, as my partner, because out there, in Hell, I realised that you mean the world to me? That you are my sanity, my laughter, my lust, my love, my comfort, my day and my night, my heat and cold and everything? If I told you that, would you think that translates to 'convenient'?”
― Marquesate & Vashtan

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

“The scarf could go on and on and on and on, and it could be the harlot-red banner of shame that wrapped him up and kept him warm when the nights grew lonely and cold.”
― Amy Lane, Knitter in His Natural Habitat

“You cannot take a person's humanity and then retain your own”
― Amy Lane, Truth in the Dark

“Being loved can do marvelous things for a man.”
― Amy Lane, Truth in the Dark

“You didn't know that... that my whole world stopped when I first saw you smile.”
― Amy Lane, The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters

“Well, sometimes small dreams had grandeur, he thought with dignity. Sometimes, the small dreams were all a person needed to live.”
― Amy Lane, It's Not Shakespeare

“[His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’t all his life was, not always.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dance With Me

“But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I’m done waiting for the pain to be all gone. I’m done trying to keep it at bay.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dance With Me

“Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.”
― Amy Lane, The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters

“For Christ's sake, Ian, he was stealing your cash! I hope you at least wore a raincoat, you feel me?

Ian blinked. Why would I want a raincoat, Joel? I was having sex.

Joel put his face in his hands, closed his eyes tight, and prayed that when he looked up and opened then Ian would be kidding.

He wasn't”
― Amy Lane