Down and Out Quotes

“It would be easier to stop my heart from beating than to keep from loving you.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“They’d been made to complete each other.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“And I’m yours,” Nate said simply. “I could spend the rest of my life on the opposite side of the world, and I’d still be yours. You own every beat of my heart, Tucker Grace. You always have.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“If I were with you—really with you—I wouldn’t stop until you were in my breath and bone. Until you were beneath my goddamn skin. And then you’d see that there’s nothing there.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“It’s not as simple as that.” “Trust me, there’s nothing simpler. Life is too short to spend it without the person who makes you whole.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“It’s like I was born with the shape of him imprinted on my heart. He’s there, deep inside me, no matter where I go. Every decision I make has his touch on it. I don’t think that’s ever going to change.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“But you don’t?” “It doesn’t matter if he’s good for me or not. All I ever wanted was him,” Nate admitted,”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“You were the only good thing in my life growing up. You know that, right?”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“Nate was hardly the closeted, sex-starved bag of hormones he’d been when he’d left for college. He’d had sex. A lot of sex! The last thing he needed was to lust after some redneck straight guy LARPing like he was John Wayne.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“Living as an out and proud gay man in the urban sprawl of Portland was infinitely easier than facing the gossip of a small town.”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out

“« It’s like I was born with the shape of him imprinted on my heart. He’s there, deep inside me, no matter where I go. Every decision I make has his touch on it. I don’t think that’s ever going to change. »”
― Parker St. John, Down and Out