“Dipping his hand between the denim hed parted, Logan thought he would feel cotton, but as his fingers brushed over wiry hair, he groaned out loud. Commando? You came to see me fucking commando?”

“Careful tate, I'm already turned on, you know how hot I get when you're mean to me.”

“Thats probably the most sincere thing that Ive ever heard come out of your mouth.Logan lowered his eyes to Tates hand. Now, thats not true. I was very sincere this morning when I told you that I lo...”

“Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tates hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, How full was that?Tate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. Unopened. Why?”

“I want you. Am I supposed to walk away because you're a man? Maybe. They'll say yes for sure. But I'm sick of all the questions running around in my head." Tate stopped and licked his lips. "I want...”

“Tate?" "What?" he barked at him. Logan couldn't help the way his dick reacted to it. "I can't even remember what he looks like because all I can picture is you.”

“Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.”

“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so muc...”

“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”