Grae Bryan > Quotes

“Well, now you’ve named all five, haven’t you?”
Jay’s flush deepened, if that was possible. “I guess I have. Is that horribly greedy of me?”
“Maybe, but I don’t mind. You’re hungry for affection; I’m hungry to give it to you.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“All it took was another whiff of the man’s spiced scent, and Danny thought, Fuck”
― Grae Bryan, Roman

“I’m not a baby. I’m not naïve. I’m not some ingenue. I’m just…inexperienced.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“Wanted to be more than just a side character in someone else’s story”
― Grae Bryan, Colin

“I didn’t have a real childhood. Your adulthood was stolen from you. Do you think together you and I could make one complete person?”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“Danny looked tired, not in the way of someone who’d just had a long night, but in the way of someone who had been working too hard for too long with no one to take care of him. And that, Roman decided, just would not do. Ours, his demon rumbled. Ours, he agreed.”
― Grae Bryan, Roman

“Danny buried his face into Roman’s chest,”
― Grae Bryan, Roman

“I read a book once on love languages,” Jay mused, a thoughtful expression on his face. “There were five of them, which doesn’t seem like nearly enough. I think quality time might be mine.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“Caring for Danny was like having his heart walking around outside his body, unprotected, mortal, fragile.”
― Grae Bryan, Roman

“He was growing. He was changing. He was. He could be more than what his maker had made of him.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“Jay didn’t seem too impressed with money or prestige, as far as Alexei could tell. He’d seen, just the other day, a suited customer trying to show off his Rolex, and Jay had countered with his own glow-in-the-dark waterproof number, of which he was apparently incredibly proud.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“Biographies. You find out how strange everyone is on the inside, once you start looking closely.”
― Grae Bryan, Colin

“And really … a one-time thing? With the connection they’d had? Yeah fucking right.”
― Grae Bryan, Overeager

“It won’t kill me not to, but it’s a very uncomfortable reflex to suppress. The body
remembers.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“It was unfair how the happy memories faded, when he could picture the loss of them so perfectly.”
― Grae Bryan, Roman

“And he was pretty sure no one would make fun of it the same way they would one of his Highlander romances—the ones with the big, shirtless men on the covers he liked to keep secret on his phone.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann

“You already know, hm? I thought as much.”
― Grae Bryan, Inviting Bedlam

“I’ve been alive for so long, and we’d move about so often, but it was always to the same kinds of places. Different variations on remote European country sides. There’s so much of the world I haven’t seen, except for through books or movies. I went to the
desert for the very first time this year. I poked a cactus, just to feel it.” Jay held up his pointer finger, as if in demonstration. “Didn’t that hurt?” It was certainly hurting Alexei, this absentminded confession of all Jay had never been given, never been allowed.
“Oh yes.” Jay smiled up at the night sky. “But it was a reminder. That it was…real.”
― Grae Bryan, Johann