Mark A. Roeder > Quotes

“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Outfield Menace

“I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t really matter. I even had a theory that time didn’t go in straight line at all. I knew I was no Albert Einstein, but I had the sneaking suspicion that everything had happened, was happening, or would happen was really happening all the time. There was no past, present, and future. Everything was going on all at once and forever. If that was true, then each moment was eternity.”
― Mark A Roeder

“Details are extremely important. A story without details is like an action movie without special effects.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Yesterday's Tomorrow

“I didn't need a handsome built boy for a boyfriend. If I could find someone plain and ordinary I'd be happy. I just needed...someone who understood. I didn't care so much about looks. I wanted someone to love me.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“was one of the defenders who took him out.  It was the highlight of the game for me.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“Just as there is evil in the world, so is there good. Despite those filled with prejudice, hate, and intolerance, acceptance and understanding are becoming more commonplace. The ignorance and lies of the past are disappearing and a new world stands before us. Friendship, understanding, and compassion are more powerful things than hate, and will one day lead us all to a better place...”
― Mark A. Roeder, A Better Place

“I dreamed about him inviting me to eat at Ofarim’s, or watch a movie, or…anything, but Viktor wasn’t gay.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“Viktor was straight.  He liked me okay, but I was little more than a convenient sexual outlet for him.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“Sometimes, when I read a book, I miss the characters when I finish it.  When I truly love a book, I read it slowly because I want to remain with those characters.  I’ve experienced the same thing with TV shows and movies.  There’s no real difference between that and getting attached to a boy from your dreams.”
― Mark A Roeder, Dream Lives

“My job was simple—protect our quarterback and if possible break through the enemy line.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“dickering”
― Mark A. Roeder, There and Back Again: An Adventurous Boys Holiday

“I loved football, but what I loved the most was having friends and being part of the team.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“He was obviously as ugly on the inside as I was on the outside. Of the two, I was glad I was cursed with an ugly face instead of an ugly personality.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Ugly

“We had won 3-1, not that I’d contributed anything beyond cheering from the bench. I wondered if I would ever get to play. I knew how the fire hoses in the glass cases at school felt. They sat behind glass for year after year, a part of the school, but never used. They sat and waited for the day when someone would follow the instructions, “In case of fire, break glass,” but would that day ever come?”
― Mark A. Roeder, Ugly

“The whole point of any religion, the whole point of life, is to be kind to others and help them anyway you can. That's all that matters.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“When we first moved to Verona she was the only familiar face in a strange new environment, but I’d made friends and Verona had begun to feel like home.  Maybe I’d just finally realized how close we were.  Mom had given up everything to bring me here, but she had done countless things for me before the trouble even began back in Chicago.  I guess I was too young to realize it.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“That sounded a bit dirty.  Didn’t it?  I didn’t mean it like that.  I swear!”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“working out.  It was cool when Scott or whoever came”
― Mark A. Roeder, Masked Destiny

“My sexual desires were only a part of me, just like my sexual orientation. I was more than a willing bottom. I was more than a homo. I was a boy who helped his Mom all he could. I was a boy who loved football. I was a boy who kind of liked to fight. There was so much more to me than what happened when I was naked.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy

“He brought me my greatest pain, but also my greatest joy.”
― Mark A. Roeder, A Better Place

“Mom had never had to ask me to mow it again.”
― Mark A. Roeder, Lawn Boy