Top 90 Josh Lanyon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you’re a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.”

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52. “Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren’t measured in hours, days, and years.”

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53. “Drink your coffee – people in Africa are sleeping.”

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54. “I got some peculiar looks from staff and visitors alike, but no one challenged me, which is a statement as to what an air of confidence will do. Or how truly scary crazy people are.”

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55. “Maybe he had a gaydar anti-cloaking device.”

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56. “I don’t know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.”

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57. “He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she’d been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.”

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58. “They will rue the day,” Tucker growled.”

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59. “I can’t figure out where you put all that,” Tucker observed. “You eat like a horse.” “It goes straight to my cock.”

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60. “You’re healthy. The healthiest I’ve ever known you. And that’s how I want it to stay. I want you around for a long, long time. I want to spend the next fifty years with you. I’m counting on spending the next fifty years with you. So please, for the love of God, don’t do anything to mess that up for us. Not everyone gets a second chance.” “I.”

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61. “Homosexuality just wasn’t what it used to be in the Golden Age of mystery writing.”

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62. “Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty’s christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.”

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63. “Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I’m very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.”

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64. “Cynicism. I liked that in a man.”

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65. “You were the first in every way that counted.”

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66. “I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you’re not.”

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67. “Tucker said so softly the words were almost inaudible, “You’re wrong, you know. I would let you get away with murder. Hell, I’d probably help you commit it, if that’s what you wanted...”

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68. “West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner.”

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69. “Some guys say it with flowers,” Tucker said. “I bring you arson reports.”

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70. “She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.” Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.”

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71. “And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?”

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72. “People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.”

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73. “Why did we all crave love so badly when half the time it left us annihilated?”

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74. “Still, the first rule of cohabitation is Thou Shalt Not Diss the Other Dude’s Kinfolk.”

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75. “They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for the asking. His even if he didn’t know how to ask.”

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76. “Don’t say anything against indies. They’re very sensitive. One hint of elitism and they’ll be organizing a twitcott.”

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77. “I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?”

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78. “My motto has always been: why wait till tomorrow when you can worry today?”

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79. “Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?”

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80. “His knee was killing him, was not going to support him for much longer, but of far greater importance seemed the erection shoving against the constriction of his jeans. Biological imperative.”

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81. “What the hell was it that people loved so much about the great outdoors? It was just one fatal accident after another waiting to happen.”

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82. “He won’t feel a fraction of what I do for you. You won’t change his life. And you will always wonder about what could have been, always feel that funny little ache right here.” He puts his hand over your heart.”

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83. “Jake sapeva di bourbon e dolore. Aprii la bocca alla sua lingua, il suo ruvido velluto che spingeva contro il mio, reclamandomi come io stavo reclamando lui. Quel torrido pomeriggio – le scuri di legno che sbattevano contro il muro, il ronzio delle api fuori dalla finestra, il rumore lontano di un aereo che viaggiava verso luoghi sconosciuti – era solo un altro anello della catena.”

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84. “It wasn’t merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place – no matter where I was.”

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85. “What the hell were the odds of attracting two stalkers within a year? Was it my aftershave?”

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86. “But casual dress or no, he looked like the guy in charge. Of everything. Everywhere.”

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87. “He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin. That about summed it up.”

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88. “Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.”

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89. “Love... doesn’t happen every day. It doesn’t happen at all for some people.”

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90. “Nothing so simple nor yet so intense as a kiss between lovers.”

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91. “How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.”

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92. “I love you, Kit. I just do.” I muttered, “Well, you don’t have to sound like it’s against your will.”

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93. “I’ve never been able to ascertain exactly what Angus is studying at UCLA. Library Science or Demonology 101?”

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94. “There, long forgotten by me, were several glass-front cases loaded with books. I dropped the broom and approached slowly, my pulse quickening in excitement known only to book lovers in the advanced stage of addiction.”

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95. “Surrounded by glistening pine trees, enveloped by rain and fog, for the first time it occurred to Elliot that his extended period of solitude just might be turning into loneliness.”

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96. “Well, Hodge, wasn’t the brightest candle on the birthday cake.”

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97. “He had one of those British public school accents that make insignificant comments like Would you pass the butter sound as interesting as Fire when ready!”

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98. “All you had to do was flip through a couple of titles in the cozy-mystery section to know that evil lurked in the cutest, quaintest corners of the universe.”

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99. “Tomorrow he would be laughing at himself. Hopefully not from heaven.”

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