Heterogenesis Quotes

“Sometimes we are pulled along by our genetic legacies, and sometimes we pull them along behind us, despite all odds, into the lives we choose to make for ourselves.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“Even if, as some have argued, we are no more than the sum of our parts, we can still take comfort in how those parts form a brilliant mess of possibilities and contradictions.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“Rishi's body had been up until that moment divided on where all his blood should go -- to his cheeks, which by now he assumed must have reached the exact shade of cherries, or to his penis, which had generally been upset with him ever since he and BT had gone their separate ways. This, however, solved that conundrum in an instant.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“BT laughed, leaning forward to kiss at Rishi's shoulder. "But you know what I really miss?"

"...What?" Rishi swallowed, bracing his feet against the possibility the answer would be something so intensely dirty that his knees might indeed give out.

"Waiting for you. When I knew you were coming over.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“It worked," said BT again. "Women, I get it now, I can see what the appeal is, I've passed all the tests they've given me, I'm straight, I'm cured. Except--" BT balled his hands into fists at his sides, looking more honestly flustered than Rishi could remember having ever seen him before. "Except I can't stop thinking about you.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“he felt naked enough inside that he didn't need it to be true outside as well.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“Though he'd never prided himself on the scope and magnitude of the organ in question, Rishi still found BT's ability to swallow him at once abstractly impressive.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“He didn't even bother trying to justify himself to his internal medical ethical police -- he was guilty, pure and simple, of doing just about everything all his ethics classes and internal review board decisions had told him that doctors and scientists were absolutely not to do under any circumstances.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“In the warm night air, everything seemed warm to Rishi, which led to the logical conclusion that BT would probably be warm too, which suggested the polite course of action of helping BT out of his clothes.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“If you make that face every time you eat something you like, I'll have to sit you right in the kitchen next time. Bliss like that is good for my chef's ego."
(BT)”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“I wouldn't get a hypothetical patient's hopes up if I didn't think your research had a good hypothetical chance to help that hypothetical person in a way I can't."

Rishi laughed. "That's a lot of hypotheticals."

"That's why I'm a psychiatrist, and not a real scientist.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“Really, you talk long enough to a blonde who wants to be a brunette, pretty soon, you stop talking self-image and send her to the hair salon.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis