22 quotes found
“Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.”
“All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.”
“Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.”
“Everyone loves a dead artist. Its the living ones that people cant tolerate.”
“Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.”
“Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.”
“You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.”
“He tried to imagine the handsome couple by the refrigerator as two sweaty bodies in a bedroom, one on top of the other. Which did what to the other? Mills kept rotating the two men in his mind, whi...”
“Thats what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.”
“Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.”
“Ive always looked like thisin between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?”
“Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you dont need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on dru...”
“They were young and gay and the femininity of their teenage years had only recently hardened into the muscle of a competitive sexual economy. Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city...”
“To discover someone was ordinary always struck Mills as a kind of betrayal. Whenever a man Mills presumed was gay turned out to be straight, the aura about him crumbled, the clues reassembling into...”
“Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.”
“The Greeks used to say that gods and animals were born whole. It is only humans who need to develop, that they become complete only with the help of a community. Its the state of that community tha...”
“If the Internet were planet Earth, the amount of space devoted to pregnancies, motherhood, infants, and toddlers would surely fill a continent. Of course, the Internet had an enormous investment in...”
“Im not some outdated alarm company, like Muldoon Security, singular. Im offering a whole new variety of services, pluralwater testing, soil graphs, toxic air readings, the security of this century....”
“That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.”
“I’ve always looked like this—in between. Is there ever an age when a person looks exactly like themselves?”
