P.E. Ryan > Quotes

“We're not saints, and we're not screwups. We're just...people.”
― P. E. Ryan

“It was like his entire body was having a conversation with Justin's body, though they were barely touching.”
― P.E. Ryan

“He held his hands up again. "Subject dropped," he repeated. "I dropped it — look, there it goes, rolling across the floor.”
― P.E. Ryan, Gemini Bites

“But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.”
― P.E. Ryan, Gemini Bites

“Your problems are never bigger than you are. It's a geometric impossibility. Though sometimes it may feel like they're larger than an elephant. Okay?”
― P.E. Ryan, Gemini Bites

“And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right out of you. It's exhausting.”
― P.E. Ryan, Gemini Bites

“I crammed my brain with the most awful thoughts I could muster. Puppies falling off a cliff like lemmings (somehow, puppies dying seemed a lot worse than lemmings). The penguin egg rolling away from its parents in that documentary. My dad having a stroke, my mom getting in some horrible accident, Garret himself being struck by lightning and horribly disfigured. Nothing worked. Apparently, all the tragedies life had to offer could be lobbed at me and I'd march right through them, leading the way with my dick.”
― P.E. Ryan, Gemini Bites

“Do you know what it's like to absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly hate yourself? Let me say something nice (for a change): I hope not.”
― P.E. Ryan