45 Quotes by Marshall Thornton

He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that.

Nice people always make me want to do bad things.

I said, you're really old.""I'm old? Are you trying to be rude?"Martin wasn't sure because it sounded as though there was a touch of pride in his nephew's voice."No, it's just...don't most of gay men die before they're forty?""Who told you that?" Martin gulped down the rest of his wine. He should have brought the bottle.

Well Okay" Carter said "so the the average homosexual has five hundred sex partners a year, but I've been here almost a week and you don't have sex with anybody. Is there something wrong with you?

Grieving is like being set afire. Except when you try to put out the flames they disappear; when you try to salve your wounds you find your skin unblemished. You take a breath, thinking the worst has passed, and then grief bursts into flame anew. It rages, it roars, it smolders, all at its own unfathomable whim. You can't shake it; you have no choice but to burn.

Don’t call me Daddy unless you mean it.”“How do you know I don’t mean it?”“Because your clothes are on and your ass isn’t in the air.

I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since decided to move that particular goal post down the field to somewhere around sixty. And I reserved the right to make it even older if I survived the next ten years.

I suppose if I were looking for love in the eyes of every guy I fucked, I’d have been offended.

I gave him a weak smile. The thing was, I don't like him, or, at least, not much, but he was young and didn't really understand you didn't need to like someone to fuck them.