Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.
Christopher Bollen, Orient.
“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.”
“Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.”
“Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.”
“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”
“I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each others bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each oth...”
“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”
“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”