Jim Provenzano > Quotes

“It was disappointing to discover that sex without love, no matter how much better equipped that other partner was, could still be enjoyable, but not as much, not by a long shot.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“How did you...?"
"Stay together?"
I nodded.
"Persistence, I suppose, and pure dumb luck."
"Huh."
"And a little magic."
"I'm sorry?"
"The magic of being needed by just one person.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight of first love.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Already, what would become my tribe had begun to die off.”
― Jim Provenzano, Cyclizen

“Face a man with death, let him come out shining, and you might call his bravery simple. Face a small town boy with fame, love, and death, all before legal drinking age, and you will call it anything but simple.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

“Like the maji on the hill,
I can divinate your presence from afar.
And I’ll follow you until
I can bring you to a perfect world.”

– Deborah Harry, “Accidents Never Happen”


[epigram for Message of Love]”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“Lee followed, more relaxed to be led into the now familiar beauty of candlelight and the soft music of a banquet in that shrine to the dead.”
― Jim Provenzano, Monkey Suits: a novel

“Snortissimus dorsi.”
― Jim Provenzano, Pins

“And? Aren’t you happy?” I blushed again, tried to focus on my driving despite the flood of emotion. “Yes,” I muttered. “Well, say it, my man. Say it!” “I’m so fuckin’ happy I met you!” “Now, that’s my Starsky.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“I guess people who are meant to be together will always find their way.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Wasn't it worth the wait?"
I shook my head as I wiped my fingers again on his shirt. How could I explain that it wasn't just about the sex, that I'd begun to clutch a spare pillow at night, pretending to hold him, that even the occasional chirp of this voice when he spoke in a joking tone brought flutters of pleasure inside me?”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“You're all the places that leave me breathless, and no wonder, you're all the world to me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“My big studly giraffe."
"My little horny monkey.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“It's not about him or you. It's what's between you, the connection.People can see it, even when you're trying to act casual. they don't want you, or him. Well, some do. But I think it's more...they want that energy, that ungraspable...something between you two."

"Is it love?”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“We had a little wine, except Jill, because she's a Christian, which made no sense to me, since Jesus was the one who made wine so popular.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“You know, but the meds,” he said softly. “They make my dreams so strange. In one of them, we were together. And we were just walking in the snow, Reid. We were just … walking.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“You’re never gonna give up on me, are you?” “Nope.” “Good.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Your legs are so long," he whispered as he caressed my thigh. "Like a giraffe."
"Uh, thanks?"
"I feel like Curious George climbing all over you.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Watching the videotape seemed to induce a strangely stiff erection with no connection to the rest of me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“We were so happy, because we had no idea what was around the corner.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“Instead, we just held hands, which led to some aimless grazing of forearms. After a long while of serene silence, we two just looking at each other, Everett whispered out that little song. “Every time I think of you, it always turns out good…”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Are you happy?” “Every time I think of him.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Were practicality the explanation for my spontaneous hike, I could have sung my purpose that afternoon, ‘Wanking in a Winter Wonderland.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“In his eyes, those dazzling near-black eyes, more important to me than our love or lust or friendship, was a look of pure trust.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“There are so many things we can’t do, places we can’t be ourselves. Here,” his upward glance drew me to the dark tree branches, oaks mostly, canopied above us, “God sees us and likes it.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“And the next time you think you're hiding out, you might not do it in white jackets in the moonlight.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“Face a man with death, let him come out shining, and you might call his bravery simple. Face a small town boy with fame, love, and death, all before legal drinking age, and you will never call his bravery simple.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

“The Queen T-shirt would guide him. He could wear it proudly in school on Monday. His T-shirt, his royal seal, would guard him from any interference, serve as his silent declaration: I got this the night David kissed me.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

“The piano teacher did not know whom she taught. She did not know how much it meant to Joshua to play well. She also did not know that the boy had yet to discover his true musical inspiration, a big-mouth, mustachioed gentleman from England.”
― Jim Provenzano, Now I'm Here

“He raised the volume, searched back and forth, half-heartedly fumbling the lyrics to a few hits, until a new mutual favorite’s tinkling piano intro played, The Babys’ “Every Time I Think of You.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You