“Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered."He stared at me with disbelief. [...]"Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.”
―
Josh Lanyon,
The Dark Tide
“A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end.“Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? ”Silence. Then dial tone.These younger demons. So easily discouraged.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say
“I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.” ― Josh Lanyon, Sort of Stranger Than Fiction
“The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dickens with Love
“I love you," Jake whispered. "Are you strong enough for this?"I made myself comfortable. Said over my shoulder, "Sure.""Would you tell me if you weren't?"I grinned. "Maybe. I can't think of a nicer way to commit suicide.""That's good. I can't think of a more pleasant way to commit murder.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.” ― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King
“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows
“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fair Game
“He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows
“I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?""I'm not usually suspected of murdering them.""You have been as long as I've known you.” ― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing
“You were the first in every way that counted.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.” ― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King
“I thought I recognized you."Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“You couldn't hurt a fly."Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity” ― Josh Lanyon, Come Unto These Yellow Sands
“A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end.“Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? ”Silence. Then dial tone.These younger demons. So easily discouraged.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say
“I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.” ― Josh Lanyon, Sort of Stranger Than Fiction
“The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dickens with Love
“I love you," Jake whispered. "Are you strong enough for this?"I made myself comfortable. Said over my shoulder, "Sure.""Would you tell me if you weren't?"I grinned. "Maybe. I can't think of a nicer way to commit suicide.""That's good. I can't think of a more pleasant way to commit murder.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.” ― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King
“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows
“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fair Game
“He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.” ― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows
“I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?""I'm not usually suspected of murdering them.""You have been as long as I've known you.” ― Josh Lanyon, A Dangerous Thing
“You were the first in every way that counted.” ― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide
“I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.” ― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King
“I thought I recognized you."Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“You couldn't hurt a fly."Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.” ― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor
“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity” ― Josh Lanyon, Come Unto These Yellow Sands
