Shukyou > Quotes

“Isaak's okay-list:
1)when other people do things that don't make sense;
2)when I want to do things that don't make sense to me;
3)making mistakes;
4)when food touches other food on a plate;
5)asking to be alone sometimes;
6)asking people to explain what they mean when I don't understand;
7)trying new things;”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“It turned out to be easy to know where he was, even if he didn’t know where he was going.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Because we are going to love this baby just the way she pops out, and if she's heterosexual, we're just going to tell her, honey, that's just the way you are and you can't help it.”
― shukyou, Six Sundays in July

“He put his right one over the top of Isaac's and placed one of his fingers between each one of Isaac's, until they went Rick, Isaac, Rick, Isaac, all the way to their thumbs.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Outside the train, the world went by, and somewhere above him in the sky, a plane flew away, and objects in motion would stay in motion, and objects at rest would stay at rest. Isaac Newton -- the real one, the one Isaac had been named after -- had figured out that law, and a law wasn't a theory, it was a law. The air Rick had breathed out was still in Isaac's apartment, and the sheets still smelled like him, and there were little parts of him everywhere, and someday he'd come home, and against the great scale of universal time, a few months wasn't long at all. Before Isaac even knew it, they'd be together. The train would rock its way down the tracks and Rick's airplane would fly west and the planet would rotate and the solar system would turn and the galaxy would spin and the universe would keep on expanding, and with enough time, everything in it would again be made right.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Sometimes it's good to be wrong.”
― shukyou, Sid Stills' Blues

“No, we're definitely stuck to one another. You to me and me to you."

"Even though I don't make sense?"

Rick patted his back.

"Hey, you make sense. You make a lot of sense. Sometimes it's a sense I don't get, but that doesn't mean it's not sense.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“It felt good to be with someone like this, where sex could be meaningful and stupid all at once.”
― shukyou, Sid Stills' Blues

“Isaac paused and took a small breath.
"I like you better than Saturn."

"Wow," said Rick, "that's ... a pretty big deal.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Doesn't make much sense, does it? I mean, no one's actually blowing anything.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Once, after a long night of sex and alcohol consecutively and concurrently, he told me somewhat drunkenly that he measured my rages by how long he perceived it would be between the time he made me angry and the time I would sleep with him again; this had made me so furious with him that I'd managed to withhold sex for nearly a full ten minutes.
(Tristan in White Lines)”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“Rick said something, then tapped Isaac on the shoulder and said it again, so Isaac took Rick's penis out of his mouth and looked straight at him, paying attention this time. "If you keep doing that, things are going to get messy," said Rick in a heavy, breathy whisper.

"I know," said Isaac, and he went back to his explorations. Messy was the point. Honestly, it was as though Rick thought Isaac hadn't done any research at all.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“the truth was that we'd just moved apart and gotten busy. Time and again, I'd forgotten to call, then forgotten I'd forgotten to call, then not wanted to call because of not wanting to explain why I hadn't called in the first place, then made new plans to call only to forget those as well and start the cycle over. If I'd learned anything from the '80s, it was that the slow, senseless death of anything was hell.”
― shukyou, Six Sundays in July

“Camera shows a girl reach to spin it; it stops on a boy, and instead of kissing him, she says those three words:'Truth or Dare?'
It wasn't Shakespeare, but it did the trick.
The boy was Rodney,#58, wide receiver, and picked dare because you need at least two brain cells to rub together to choose truth.”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“Now, I'm not stupid, but when you see that your ticket to college is either football or your brains, and football is so much more fun, you tell me which one you'd pay attention to.
(Jameson)”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“He smelled like aftershave and the subway, though the former not in a good way, and the latter not in a bad way.”
― shukyou, Six Sundays in July

“He was a little tired, but not as tired as Rick, so he stayed awake a little longer, letting Rick's breathing and heartbeat be what he imagined the background noise of the universe might sound like to the right ears.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Rick had told Isaac once that he didn't want to kiss girls, and Isaac had said that he didn't want to kiss girls either, and Rick had laughed and said it wasn't the same because Isaac didn't want to kiss girls or boys. That had been true right up until Isaac had figured that he could kiss Rick sometimes when they were alone, at which point he'd amended his earlier statement to reflect how he wanted to kiss boys a lot, but only if those boys were Rick, and Rick had laughed and kissed him some more.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“Even if, as some have argued, we are no more than the sum of our parts, we can still take comfort in how those parts form a brilliant mess of possibilities and contradictions.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“I like putting your penis in my mouth." He thought about this for a second, remembering the reading he'd done about it on Wikipedia.
"And having fellatio.”
― shukyou, Bodies in Space

“You don't recognize the actor, because he's not from Hollywood's generic teen male pool; the director hat to go off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, to the little back stages to find this guy, olive-dusted skin, straight black hair, face that looks like he's never cracked a smile on his life.”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“I was raised to believe you should never be mean to someone who’s given you head.”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“Sometimes we are pulled along by our genetic legacies, and sometimes we pull them along behind us, despite all odds, into the lives we choose to make for ourselves.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“...A certain amount of clutter is expected. Hell, you find it everywhere. Cyphers on cereal boxes, fractals in sidewalk cracks, dead cats who don't understand why you're not paying attention to them-- Why are you looking at me like that?”
― shukyou, Mike Dies At The End

“Never understimate the power of being understimated.”
― shukyou, Duet For Tenor and Transradial Orthosis

“Stereotypes don’t happen all by themselves, you know.”
― shukyou, This Year's Prom King

“BT laughed, leaning forward to kiss at Rishi's shoulder. "But you know what I really miss?"

"...What?" Rishi swallowed, bracing his feet against the possibility the answer would be something so intensely dirty that his knees might indeed give out.

"Waiting for you. When I knew you were coming over.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“Though he'd never prided himself on the scope and magnitude of the organ in question, Rishi still found BT's ability to swallow him at once abstractly impressive.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“It worked," said BT again. "Women, I get it now, I can see what the appeal is, I've passed all the tests they've given me, I'm straight, I'm cured. Except--" BT balled his hands into fists at his sides, looking more honestly flustered than Rishi could remember having ever seen him before. "Except I can't stop thinking about you.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis

“he felt naked enough inside that he didn't need it to be true outside as well.”
― shukyou, Heterogenesis