17 Quotes by Ben Monopoli

Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

Because it’s never really sex until someone squirts.

I was bi and my heart was off-limits to no one, at least not for any reason like what they had between their legs or whether their chests were flat or round. And maybe because of that I never really could believe or understand that Griff, or anyone else, could be deterred from falling in love by such a trivial thing as gender.

The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.

A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a writer.”“You’re a writer? I’m a writer.”“What do you write?”“Stories. Books. A book. Fiction.”“Fiction. Pfft. That’s not writing.”“What do you write?”“I write the truth.”“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to be factual to be true.”“Says you. Have you been published?”“As a matter of fact I have. My novel sold over 65,000 copies.”“All to your mom.”“My mom didn’t even know about it.

Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?

Never apologise for being the good guy.

It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard.

I bet you know someone who could use a few naked jocks in their life.