Jeremy Jenkins > Quotes

“Laughter felt like blowing dandelion seed to make your wishes scatter through the air where everyone could see them.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“Blood and tears are the same. Both are the body's way of crying for help.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“As he held me close, I felt a sensation like I’d finally come home. It was like all of the layers around my heart were disintegrating away like paint chips falling into oblivion.
The only sound were the crickets chirping outside. And I didn’t know what possessed me to say it— maybe the intense emotion of everything all coagulated into one spot. A swollen button on top of every experience that had stitched us together.
“I love you,” I uttered into his ear, surprising myself. I’d meant to say I hated him, but my mouth wouldn’t form the words.
“I love you too,” he said.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“The good thing about crying, I’d realized, was the catharsis you felt when everything finally came out. It was as though I’d cried tears of poison; poison that didn’t have to be inside me anymore.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“come on. You know that real relationships start with hooking up.” “They don’t have to,” I said quietly, trying not to think of my one and only ex. “Well, in the gay community, they do,” he said.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, Shy Guys

“But I was nothing but a prisoner to the slow march of time.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“A told-you-so doctor, not a fix-you doctor,” he pointed out.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, He Had Two

“Why couldn’t I just hook up with him and forget about him, just like all the women I’d been with? What was it about that guy that had my thoughts so stuck on him?  Why couldn’t I stop thinking about his giant cock?”
― Jeremy Jenkins, Jon From High School

“Had the nurse seen when he touched my arm? That heavy moment we shared that hung on my consciousness and metastasized like a cancer?”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend

“I told myself that I was just curious about it; wondering how an appendage so huge could exist on a guy without him tipping over.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, Jon From High School

“All these people want you to be a cornstalk. Predictable, grows in one place its whole life, and its constantly competing for the sun with others just like it. But you’re not a cornstalk. You’re vines. You grow on the side of structures, and you can go up, down, left, right… whichever way you want.” I turned to look at him, and found that he was listening to me with keen interest. “You expect cornstalks to understand vines?”
― Jeremy Jenkins, Shy Guys

“Everything in my mind was screaming at me to stop kissing him, but I couldn’t. It was like trying to paddle upstream against a wild current.
I was drowning, sinking down into the waters of my emotions. Nothing made sense here except his lips molding against mine.”
― Jeremy Jenkins, My Dad's Best Friend