Daryl Banner > Quotes

“Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet,
excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over.”
― Daryl Banner, Outlier: Rebellion

“I'd die for you," he repeats, quieter.
"I'd rather you not," I admit with a smile. "I would ... really miss your heartbeat.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“Growing up is terrifying. When you’re young, you have this feeling inside of you that you’ll eventually get the chance to do and try everything in life, because life looks so infinitely long from the perspective of a kid. Then suddenly, you realize that every choice you make unchooses all the other ones. This isn’t a video game. There’s no reset button and no infinite lives. Every single decision I make is permanent, and the more I make, the slimmer my path becomes in this shrinking, dark forest we call adulthood.”
― Daryl Banner, Bromosexual

“We'll make a new game of it," he offers. "Rule is, when you want me naked, you just ask. When you want to kiss me, you just fucking go for it.”
― Daryl Banner, Dorm Game

“They know we’re friends,” I whisper. “Just tell them you wanted to show me something in your room.”

“What? Like my dick?” he hisses back.”
― Daryl Banner, Football Sundae

“I try to thank him and my jaw falls off.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“I glance at the stump that remains of my arm. "Damn it, Megan. You made me forget my hand!”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“That's really the worst part about coming out. You don't do it just once. You have to do it again and again, your whole life.”
― Daryl Banner, Football Sundae

“The point is, I understand about rumors and bullshit gossip all of these bored fuckers like to sling around. The only reason they do it is ‘cause their own lives are fucking boring. If you’re at the center of a rumor, it just means you’re more interesting than anyone else. You’ll be the one who they remember years from now. And isn’t that the point of living a life at all? To be remembered?”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“Kirk’s the only one. Joel just had that bad breakup a couple months ago, Harrison’s single, and Robby’s bangin’ every lady in Spruce with a pulse. Shit, he might have run out of them and moved on to the ones without.”
― Daryl Banner, Football Sundae

“I grin. “It’s just a party,” I assure her. “Nothin’ big.”

“There ain’t nothin’ that happens on this ranch that’s organized by your mama that ain’t big. That woman’s about as subtle as a shotgun.”

“A shotgun can be subtle if it ain’t bein’ fired,” I point out.

She narrows her eyes. I think she’s about to quip back with something super sassy, but then a smile wrinkles up her face. “You sayin’ I’m better off to keep the shotgun from firin’?”

“I’m sayin’ quit playin’ with the trigger, Grandma.”
― Daryl Banner, Football Sundae

“The maybe-twenty-year-old face in the mirror is one I should probably recognize since it's my own, but I don't. She had eyes like arctic pools. Hair that falls like a soft mist, veiling half her face. Her skin is a sea of satin. Her nails are little polished glass shards. Her lips, a subtle pink, with cheeks gently blushed the same. The person in the mirror is a person I don't know.
"What do you think?" The large woman asks me, obviously proud of her work. "Can you live with this?"
My left hand falls off.
"Roxie!" Thr large woman yelps. "Adhesive, honey! Proper, level-four-grade adhesive! - I do swear!”
― Daryl Banner, The Beautiful Dead

“No one gets to choose their family. And most of the time, your true family isn’t the people you’re related to by blood. Family sometimes just sort of … happens.”
― Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky

“I’m as flirty as a spatula. And there’s nothing sexy about a spatula.”
― Daryl Banner, Hard for My Boss

“There’s a reason not everyone sticks around in life. It’s like sifting dirt for gold; eventually, the only ones who matter are the ones who stuck around.”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“I still can't look at her. Really, when you're talking to someone, you shouldn't be able to see their brain through their forehead; it's just rude.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“He's going to join, so you must like him. We must all like each other because that's the rule," declares Rone. "That's the rule I made up just now.”
― Daryl Banner, Outlier: Rebellion

“One of the worst things you can do is put kindness out into the world and expect to get it back. Kindness isn’t meant to be reciprocated in vain. It’s a gift. Give it for the sake of giving it. Those who don’t give it back may need it the most, and that in itself is the reward.”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“Time. That was always the problem, wasn’t it? Running out of it. Having too much of it. Waiting for it. Cursing it.

Enduring it. Surviving it. Time was the fucking enemy.

All he needed was more time.”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“I'll be damned," I say, then realize I kinda already am.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“When his shirt is tugged up halfway up his torso to his chest, Jimmy follows the lead by lifting off of me to allow the shirt over his head and off his arms, where it's then flung away, never to be heard from again, and he's on my lips once more.
But shirtless now.
Good Lord, Jimmy, and it ain't even my birthday.”
― Daryl Banner, Heteroflexible

“My son’s first love. Stay here with him, will you?”
― Daryl Banner, Outlier: Rebellion

“Love is often a broken path, and it rarely makes sense, but in the end, does it really matter how two souls at last find each other?”
― Daryl Banner, When I See You Again

“One thing you can absolutely never predict is where my underwear will be at the end of the day.”
― Daryl Banner, Caysen's Catch

“You said that first night that if you met the right guy, you could marry him tomorrow. I hope you’re ready to put your money where your mouth is, because … I think I can make you happy. No, I know I can make you happy,” he amends himself more certainly. “I want to prove it to you every day, for the rest of my life. I know it’s a high standard, to be as perfect as you deserve, but I’m willing to do it. I must be the luckiest man on Earth to have won the affection of a human being like you. Quintin Ruiz … will you do me the honor of becoming my husband?”
― Daryl Banner, Crusher

“Really, we are this sickening right now. Feel free to avert your eyes if this sort of mushiness makes your eyes roll so hard, you have to chase them across the room.”
― Daryl Banner, Hard for My Boss

“clambered by, still having not said a word to him, still not mustering up the courage. Our story started long before we were estranged classmates. Once upon a time, we lived on the same street, and our parents were friends. We spent afternoons as begrudging playmates in one of our messy yards while the adults stayed inside and drank wine. Despite the fun time our parents assumed we were having,”
― Daryl Banner, Mr. Picture Perfect

“I'm apparently in love with a thirteen-year-old who makes lewd sex jokes in public, shamelessly plays footsy with me under the table the whole time I'm trying to enjoy my shrimp scampi, and is insatiably horny at all hours of the day.”
― Daryl Banner, Hard for My Boss

“We could have walked into this party together, he and I. Instead, I just cut the line and let the best fish swim out to sea. And the sharks found him. What the hell is wrong with me?”
― Daryl Banner, In Too Deep

“Growing up is terrifying. When you’re young, you have this feeling inside of you that you’ll eventually get the chance to do and try everything in life, because life looks so infinitely long from the perspective of a kid. Then suddenly, you realize that every choice you make unchooses all the other ones. This isn’t a video game. There’s no reset button and no infinite lives. Every single decision I make is permanent, and the more I make, the slimmer my path becomes in this shrinking, dark forest we call adulthood”
― Daryl Banner, Bromosexual