Roo

“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery

“I sometimes find myself offering an obvious, often-ignored observation to men who are attempting to grieve disappointing lives: we can only start from where we are, never from where we wish we were.”
― Walt Odets, Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives

“Reality is inside the skull.”
― George Orwell, 1984