Kaje Harper > Quotes

“That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“I know you're not looking for a relationship, or even a fuck buddy, but...are you looking for anything that I can be?”
― Kaje Harper, Lies and Consequences

“Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.”
― Kaje Harper, Like the Taste of Summer

“It’s a gift beyond price, to know you are loved, without conditions, without limits, without end.”
― Kaje Harper, Home Work

“didn’t want to hurt you and I didn’t want to wreck my life and I did both and I’m sorry I was ever born, and will you please sit down here and let me hold you for a minute, because I don’t think I can make it without you”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“Mark Twain said, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“you’ve been all black and white, like Kansas. It’s time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person...”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“Anna glanced over at her father and Mac added, “Sometimes it’s like that. Some boys want to date other boys, and some girls like other girls best. As long as people are happy, it all works out.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Mac blinked. That smile should be registered as a deadly weapon.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Family could lift you up,or mess you up pretty badly.”
― Kaje Harper, Home Work

“Hell, you’re the only man I’ve ever met that I would stand in front of a judge and say I’m gay for.”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“There’s never been anyone I could go to, to just be myself.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Tony chuckled. “So how does my other underwear fit you?” “Like covering a banana with a Band-Aid.”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“Of course he was a politician. He had a lot of experience in saying nothing in a hundred words or more.”
― Kaje Harper, Home Work

“The whole room said, "Admire without touching anything and then get out.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Kids were an antidote for darkness, Tony thought. The way they ran and laughed, you had to believe in happy endings.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“May I just say that religion and logic don't always go together, and then we can move on.”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“If you do dishes, you can live here forever.”
― Kaje Harper, The Rebuilding Year

“It wasn’t about sex, it was about comfort.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“I want you, here, with me, before I close my eyes.” “That you have,” Mac said.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.”
― Kaje Harper, Nor Iron Bars a Cage

“Someday,” Mac said almost inaudibly. Tony turned to see the big man’s eyes fixed on the same couple. To his surprise, Mac went on, “Someday two guys will be able to kiss like that, in front of all the world.” “But not today,” Tony muttered. “I can’t. You know I can’t.” I know you won’t. Mac had his reasons, Tony understood that. It didn’t make it easy, though.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Each moment of love in the world lifts us all up. Any kind of love.”
― Kaje Harper, Nor Iron Bars a Cage

“Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren’t there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are all real, good, and valuable people and you are entitled to be safe. And you are allowed to fight back, run, scream, get help or do whatever it takes to be safe.”
― Kaje Harper

“What's the rule for fighting? Hit the soft parts with your hand and the hard parts with a utensil?”
― Kaje Harper, Possibilities

“Sometimes his life felt like a Venn diagram, a series of overlapping circles, each with their disconnects. He could share Mac with Ben, his godson. He could discuss Ben with Sabrina. He could talk to his parents about Sabrina and his work. He could talk about work with Mac. He didn’t talk about Marty with anyone.”
― Kaje Harper, And to All a Good Night

“When he went into that bar and saw Tony there with somebody, his head close to a handsome blond one, his hand on the man’s arm, Mac had been so…jealous.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“Food first,” Kellen said firmly, “because I’m a really good cook, and I want you to experience the full awesomeness. And then bed, nice and slow, for pretty much the same reason.”
― Kaje Harper, Sole Support

“because if something happened to Mac, no one would call him. No one knew about them. He would only find out when Mac failed to come home, and there was a story on the news about police officer shot.”
― Kaje Harper, And to All a Good Night