Rodney Ross > Quotes

“Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Serenity is found when wading into it.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Pride starts with the penis.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it’s the same dusk.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Will I ever be happy again?”
“Do we even know we’re happy when we’re happy?”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“I get it, let’s just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit!”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Like I’m listening to a garden seashell for the echo of her take-no-prisoners affection, I lay my head against Mom’s cold pillow.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“I awake to canine asshole. “Noel, get your twinkler outta here!” I scream.
Andy’s in his favourite cargo shorts … “But wouldn’t mankind be better off if we all did the Presentation of the Anus? Summit meetings of world leaders should be preceded by a Presentation of the Anus.”
“It would give new meaning to dirty politics,” I say, still pushing Noel away.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“I stare at the beauty that comes automatically bundled and unappreciated with youth. I can’t be this anymore.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“My learning curve has had more squiggles than I counted on.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Go out looking for the end of a rainbow and there might only be a Port-A-Let.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“So how old was Miss Brodie, when she was in her damn prime?”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“You can’t go home again, not if you can’t find the fucking street, Mr. Wolfe.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone’s vocation.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“No man is an island.”
“So I’m a peninsula. Only semi-detached.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“You call our upbringing normal?”
“Mostly, yes! Don’t get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn’t nature or nurture. We’re the ones who cultivated our abnormalities.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“One look at you, and I said to myself: this is a man who can bring you some peace...”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Piss on reset. Wherever you land, when you get there, man, hit play.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Life doesn’t have compartments.”
“Don’t kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us,” I reply.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“My body speaks. Actually, it’s ready to shout itself hoarse.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another’s company become overwhelming?”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“What a mealy-mouth. Windier than a bag of assholes.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“No matter what deal-breakers are negotiated upfront in a ménage, someone always ends up freaked out in a wicker chair across the room.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“In youth, you want someone to build a life with. After fifty, you just want someone who can handle salt.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Just be careful of the what-ifs,” she warns. They’ll tumble in your head like laundry that won’t dry.”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow

“Were there Madison County bridges or were they all trysts in tool sheds?”
― Rodney Ross, The Cool Part of His Pillow