The Boys and the Bees Quotes

“I loved sliding into him as he lay on his back so I could watch his face while we moved together. On those nights I could coax him out of the harsh world and its problems into a safe place inhabited by just the two of us. For a brief time, my arms really were strong enough to protect him. Nothing else had ever made me feel so powerful or righteous. Some people say gay sex is wrong because it has no purpose. I pity them, because they’ve clearly never found with another person what Jamie and I shared in those moments.”
― Mari Donne, The Boys and the Bees

“Locavore?" But before he could answer, I figured it out. "Someone who eats food produced locally? As opposed to locovore, someone who eats crazy people?”
― Mari Donne, The Boys and the Bees

“How am I supposed to know what you want when you never ask for anything? You just give all the time, you're always there, and when I ask, you give. You give even when I don't ask." Jamie's response to Mark's news”
― Mari Donne, The Boys and the Bees

“So I had to give up my attempts to get my father off the gold standard.”
― Mari Donne, The Boys and the Bees

“I told him everyone had liked his stuffing. Even my father had eaten it, in spite of his concerns that it represented all things liberal, from dovish foreign policy to the insidious gay agenda.”
― Mari Donne, The Boys and the Bees