Derek Milman > Quotes

“The sun is up now, revealing all of us for what we really are.
And it's fucking blinding.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“There won't be any more tornadoes for you, he says, They've all blown away, tucked back into the sky.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“The spiders will always hatch out of the flowers. But now I like to think about the moments before, when they're just flowers, blooming, and they can be pinched closed, so all that prettiness last a little longer before the inevitable horror comes.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“the things you keep close to your heart better be broken too.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“There won't be any more tornados for you," he says. "They've all blown away, tucked back into the sky.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“"We are an army of lovers because it is we who know what love is." It's saying gay people know more about love than anyone else because they've risked so much to have it: prejudice, bashings, bullying, banishment, disease, death.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you're dead.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“Evil Tinkerbell has come to kill me because I didn't clap. I'm a bad person and I deserve to die.”
― Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder

“There are worse things than dying," the dude in The Lovers of Dust and Shadow says, faced with the prospect of losing his love. That line always stuck with me because of what he was saying: suffering can be worse. Pain can be worse.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“Dario, I ain’t gonna say how he treats you is right, and I ain’t gonna lie to you and tell you he loves you more than his schlocky films, ’cause we both know that’s bullshit, but one day you’ll realize you can either be defined by him or defined by everything you are that he could never be. So that’s what I gotta say on that. Wanna eat?”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“Gavin is just a kid. He hasn't figured out yet how cruel life can be. How it can take everything from you, dig in its sharp teeth and not let go. He still has hope. I can't tarnish that.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“This is a house full of misfits, everyone unmoored from the world outside these gates. They don’t belong out there. They live in a constantly moving dreamworld of imagined horrors, spurts of gore, skulking monsters---creatures more aberrant than themselves. After all, it takes true misfits to make believable monsters.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“option,”
― Derek Milman, A Darker Mischief

“Be with me forever. But see me as I really am. And everything they took from me.”
― Derek Milman