Quotes from Josh Lanyon

Everyone who wasn't trying to park or find their car was in a festive mood. And it was contagious. As in, I needed to remember to take my vitamin C when we got back.

They were all in bed before daybreak. And they called themselves writers? Amateurs.

Will: "Throwing money at a problem is not a solution." Tate: "It sure as shit is, if the problem is you don't have enough money.

How many people were content with their lives? How many people were happy—happy in the moment and not in retrospect?

It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.

I prefer creatures with the proper amount of legs. Two or four are good. Six, eight, or none...that's just not right.

Kingdoms rose and fell but life went on.

What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?

If you even try to die, I'll kill you myself," Tucker had said in a choky voice

Comfort clothes, the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body.

They lived seven hundred miles - and a couple universes - apart.

Dragging on a faded cinnamon-colored Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt with the slogan I had a nightmare I was a brunette, I returned to the front room.

It's one thing to give yourself permission to grieve. It's another to let loss define your life. If you let the loss become more important than everything that went before, you make everything that went before meaningless.

It was kind of shattering to have someone gaze deep into your eyes and decide you were one of the bad guys. Especially when you were one of the good guys. Or at least one of the normal, average, decent guys.

The thing is," Elliot said neutrally, "people lose their temper and strike out, and human beings are pretty fragile when you get down to it.

Love... doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen at all for some people

Do you still do the clubs?"Jake shakes his head. "You do the clubsbecause you can't find what you need at home. I've got everything I need. I've got the answer to needs I didn't even know I had.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.