Quotes from Michael Thomas Ford

Jack was there. He was on his back, the leg with its cast stuck out at an angle. Sitting astride him, Brian was moving up and down, his hand wrapped around his own cock while Jack's filled him from underneath

But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

I don't know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.

If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

It's a plant." Burke's father stared at the laptop's screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up. "It's not just a plant, Ed," Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. "It's about the feeling of the image." Burke's father snorted. "Well, it feels like a plant." He turned to his son. "I'm not saying it's not pretty. But it's a plant.

Most religions are concerned about what happens when you die, about going somewhere better than here as a reward for faithful service or whatever you want to call it. Paganism teaches that being here is the reward, and that we need to make the most of it and leave the world a better place.

Good old Cat Poop tapped his pencil against the pad. "You're telling me that you hurt yourself because you want to be a ballerina," he said. "Is that right?

Sartre wrote after describing his epiphany that his life was nothing but a play, and he an actor in it

How do you really know if anyone loves you?

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But can someone follow the rules and still be a real jerk? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.