Upside Down Quotes

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“The old lady I was sitting next to gaped at me. I shrugged, not even the slightest bit sorry. Okay, well maybe just a little sorry. But he smiled at me. Hennessy goddamned smiled right at me, like I was the reason for his happiness.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“Like I took a miscalculated step or like I missed the last stair, I fell headfirst right into love with Hennessy Lang.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“He snorted. “I don’t think your dick is stupid.” “Well, I can tell you, it’s no Einstein either,” I replied, and he chuckled.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“All I want really big and rock-hard on a guy is his IQ, and what I consider to be hardcore porn is a picture of a guy reading a book with a hard cover. Soft-core porn is a paperback, and browsing Amazon is my version of PornHub, okay?”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.’” Jordan stopped and turned, put his hand to his heart, and groaned. “And he quotes Dickens? My heart, my heart!”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“And it had to match. Because I didn’t spend the first eighteen years of my life in the closet and not come out with some sense of style.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“What difference does his job make?”
“What if he’s an undertaker? Or a hitman?”
“Undertakers and hitmen need love too, Merry. Probably more than other people.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“Yes, I was in trouble. I was, without doubt, taken by his charm, his intelligence, his smile. But unlike the many times before, there was no dread lurking, lying in wait for disappointment to take its place. There was only anticipation and excitement of what was to come. Which was perhaps a little premature, given we hadn’t really discussed some critical issues, but I had the feeling this was the beginning of something amazing.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“We see repeatedly, we’re told repeatedly, it’s shown, it’s implied, it’s blatant that sex equals love. That we’re not complete without it. That sexual intimacy is the pinnacle of all relationship goals.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“To define asexuality by the absence of anything infers that something is missing and therefore incomplete or insufficient.” I looked at her. “I am not any of those things, and I resent the implication—”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“I’m an awkward, introvert book nerd, sci-fi geeky twenty-six-year-old librarian, with brownish-ginger hair. Oh, and I’m a gay man.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“You have what may have been concepted as an oversexualised society. We see it repetitively, we are told repetitively, it is shown, it is implied… that sex equals love. That we are not complete without it.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“He quoted Lewis Carroll,” I tried to say, but it was barely a squeaky breath. “Oh, Jesus,” she whispered. Her eyes went from my phone to me, then back again. “So that’s it then. I’ll start planning the wedding.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“It is difficult to free fools of the chains they revere.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“for one split second, for one perfect moment, he was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down

“Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?”
― N.R. Walker, Upside Down