67 Quotes by Heidi Cullinan

You thought I was so toppy I wouldn’t bottom?” He laughed and bit the place he’d been kissing. “Honey, I can drive from anywhere.

No one is normal. Normal is a lie.

He wondered... if the journey of a life with pain was simply finding more and more layers of acceptance, that at best the most constant tether would be that he would never really find the bottom, that the bottom had different levels, and that no matter how good he tried to be, sometimes he would sink into a hole.

Nothing in the world is the same as anything else, so how can anyone be normal?

The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.

This was something he’d done a great deal of when he was very young, so young the memory was washed to sepia with age.

There is no normal, not really. Not a right and a wrong way to be. But there is belonging. That day in Bohemia with Jeremey and David and the girls, I belonged. I belonged as much as anybody on the mean. Maybe even a little bit more.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness – but also ignorance.

Sometimes I liked him for his smile. Sometimes I liked him because he didn’t smile. Sometimes I got an erection because of the way he brushed his hair away from his face. It didn’t matter to my brain that these were odd reasons to care for someone. My brain, my body, my everything wanted to be Jeremey’s boyfriend.