Patrick Doyle > Quotes

“Bill rolled his eyes. “The MM book with the guys on steroids on the cover, okay? I saw it.” The picture was imprinted in Bill’s memory. How two such bulky individuals could possibly contort their bodies so wildly boggled the mind. They didn’t even look like they could bend over, although he assumed they could.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill: A Love Story

“Two caregivers accidentally meet and decide to trade their charges. It was like something from a Hitchcock movie.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill: A Love Story

“Pierre was an excellent liar, although the word was much too sweeping to describe his occasional reticence to divulge. Rather than lie outright, he’d fabulate. He’d tell a story or change the subject or say something funny. Like a magician, he’d distract. For years, Bill had watched him nimbly extricate himself from someone else’s demands. It was very entertaining except when the other person was him.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“He was thinking back to his own encounter with his biological family. His father was barely in the ground when some strangers had shown up thinking they could just take his boy. As if they owned him. As if he’d been out on loan. They kept touching him, fondling him, patting him as if he was a trophy they’d come to claim.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“He’d played all his cards. He’d said all his words. What was he supposed to do now? State his intentions? Make a declaration? Ask him out on a date? He had no idea what anyone would say in this situation. They’d connected. They’d disconnected. Were they connecting again? So, he was unprepared when Anton leaned over and kissed him. Contact was light and quick but when he pulled away he didn’t go far.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“They weren’t wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. Each had a life before they’d met with everything that living entailed. Experience is precious but it comes with a price.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“They’d always hugged. After bad news or an argument they’d hug and everything would be better. Their hugs went where words could not go, and often where they should not go. Their hugs replaced words.”
― Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill: A Love Story