Pins Quotes

“How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight of first love.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Like the maji on the hill,
I can divinate your presence from afar.
And I’ll follow you until
I can bring you to a perfect world.”

– Deborah Harry, “Accidents Never Happen”


[epigram for Message of Love]”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“Already, what would become my tribe had begun to die off.”
― Jim Provenzano, Cyclizen

“Lee followed, more relaxed to be led into the now familiar beauty of candlelight and the soft music of a banquet in that shrine to the dead.”
― Jim Provenzano, Monkey Suits: a novel

“Snortissimus dorsi.”
― Jim Provenzano, Pins

“You know, but the meds,” he said softly. “They make my dreams so strange. In one of them, we were together. And we were just walking in the snow, Reid. We were just … walking.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Instead, we just held hands, which led to some aimless grazing of forearms. After a long while of serene silence, we two just looking at each other, Everett whispered out that little song. “Every time I think of you, it always turns out good…”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“There are so many things we can’t do, places we can’t be ourselves. Here,” his upward glance drew me to the dark tree branches, oaks mostly, canopied above us, “God sees us and likes it.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“We were so happy, because we had no idea what was around the corner.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“It's not about him or you. It's what's between you, the connection.People can see it, even when you're trying to act casual. they don't want you, or him. Well, some do. But I think it's more...they want that energy, that ungraspable...something between you two."

"Is it love?”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“Watching the videotape seemed to induce a strangely stiff erection with no connection to the rest of me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“You're all the places that leave me breathless, and no wonder, you're all the world to me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“I guess people who are meant to be together will always find their way.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“We had a little wine, except Jill, because she's a Christian, which made no sense to me, since Jesus was the one who made wine so popular.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Wasn't it worth the wait?"
I shook my head as I wiped my fingers again on his shirt. How could I explain that it wasn't just about the sex, that I'd begun to clutch a spare pillow at night, pretending to hold him, that even the occasional chirp of this voice when he spoke in a joking tone brought flutters of pleasure inside me?”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“And the next time you think you're hiding out, you might not do it in white jackets in the moonlight.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“My big studly giraffe."
"My little horny monkey.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Your legs are so long," he whispered as he caressed my thigh. "Like a giraffe."
"Uh, thanks?"
"I feel like Curious George climbing all over you.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Are you happy?” “Every time I think of him.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“You’re never gonna give up on me, are you?” “Nope.” “Good.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“And? Aren’t you happy?” I blushed again, tried to focus on my driving despite the flood of emotion. “Yes,” I muttered. “Well, say it, my man. Say it!” “I’m so fuckin’ happy I met you!” “Now, that’s my Starsky.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Were practicality the explanation for my spontaneous hike, I could have sung my purpose that afternoon, ‘Wanking in a Winter Wonderland.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“He raised the volume, searched back and forth, half-heartedly fumbling the lyrics to a few hits, until a new mutual favorite’s tinkling piano intro played, The Babys’ “Every Time I Think of You.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“With a final appreciative look, he mused, “My big studly giraffe.” “My little horny monkey.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You