Dean Cole > Quotes

“And some of us need to be sad. It’s the only way we can get others to see just how much pain we’re in.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“I knew the pain of losing someone I cared about, had spent years longing for their return. It isn’t the pain that’s abnormal. It’s the way people expect you not to feel it, as if you have the choice.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“It’s a grotesque thing to see such ignorance, such immaturity, in your elders. We expect age to refine us, to make us the learned teachers of grace and wisdom. But I guess for some it just means more time to get better at being dreadful.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“We want love so much, yet when we have it we take it for granted. Is losing love the only way we learn to appreciate it in this twisted game callled life?”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“Some people say the book is dying but I disagree. Bookshops might be on the way out, but not the book itself. As long as there are people there’s always market for a good story. Do you read?’
‘Does Vogue, Heat, Attitude, The Gay Times and Hello! count?”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“When you spend your childhood around someone who thinks it’s a miracle you’re still alive at the end of another year, it’s hard not to wonder what dangers are out there waiting to kill you. And the influences you have around you as a kid are like the programmers that write the software you run off when you’re older.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“It says adult prison on the gates, not Hogwarts. Now, get in and say hi to your new housmate.”
― Dean Cole, Uncut: Gay Erotic Stories

“His lips were on mine, a deep, breathy intense kiss. A release.”
― Dean Cole, Uncut: Gay Erotic Stories

“Secrets and lies. They’re like arrows that pierce our hearts, shattering our reality, exposing the ugly truth we don’t want to see. You can pull out the barb, but the wound never heals, festering until every part of you is infected with mistrust.”
― Dean Cole, Capturing Magick

“The problem with love is it’s best friends with hate. I’ve seen a lot of people who claim to love people do very bad things to those same people.”
― Dean Cole, Capturing Magick

“It’s risky to stake your happiness and your sense of self on something you can easily lose.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“You’re chasing one thing because you’re running away from something else. Even if you get what you want you’ll look back and regret this. Find out what you’re running away from and deal with that. Then maybe you can start enjoying the journey instead of fighting it out.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“Child? I might be blessed with slender hips and a dewy complexion, but that’s pushing it a bit.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“I believe,’ he goes on, ‘that sometimes the universe gives us experiences we don’t want as a sort of test. It’s our chance to grow. And from personal experience, if we can learn to accept, to surrender to those experiences, life has a way of working out for us.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy