Josh Lanyon

“I determinedly weaved my way through the crowd, hauling my medical apparatus behind me like my little red wagon.”

— Josh Lanyon

“Welcome to the closet, I thought, is it dark in here or is just me”

— Josh Lanyon

...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.

— Josh Lanyon

“I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.”

— Josh Lanyon

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

— Josh Lanyon

“Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.”

— Josh Lanyon

I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?

— Josh Lanyon

“Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously”

— Josh Lanyon

“Just shut up and listen.” “Well since you ask so nicely….” There was silence. I listened. He didn’t say anything. “Are we…

— Josh Lanyon

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

— Josh Lanyon

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not…

— Josh Lanyon

Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my…

— Josh Lanyon

You don't look so hot, Adrien." "Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day." His upper lip curled in a semblance of…

— Josh Lanyon

“I couldn't see him putting up with the restraints and discipline of being a Bottom - he wouldn't have been able to…

— Josh Lanyon

“Thought of Riordan. Thought of a big hand wrapping around my shaft, sliding up and down, pumping hard...harder. The head of my…

— Josh Lanyon

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart…

— Josh Lanyon

“I’ve been telling you that you should hire Warren.” “Nat, I’m not going to hire Warren.” “Why not?” I opened my mouth…

— Josh Lanyon

“There was a line from The Lady in the Lake I could have quoted him: “Police business is a hell of a…

— Josh Lanyon

“Just close your eyes and relax." Gratefully, Swift closed his eyes, trying to concentrate on nothing more than the feel of Max's…

— Josh Lanyon

“It means I know you, Adrien with an e , and I know you get reckless when you're impatient. You're paying for…

— Josh Lanyon

“He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar…

— Josh Lanyon

“ 'Yeah,' he said with slow satisfaction. 'You need it bad. Worse than I do.' I gasped, 'Is it a competition? What…

— Josh Lanyon

“Passionate kisses, the intoxicating exchange of breath and saliva - and something more intimate - something there was no real name for,…

— Josh Lanyon

I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship…

— Josh Lanyon

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

— Josh Lanyon

“When I get back to L.A. I'm going to buy myself a Blackberry and a slew of French-cuffed shirts. Possibly a nipple…

— Josh Lanyon

“I caught sight of Fraser in a pair of tight black Speedos. Ugh. Did he have a permit to carry that thing…

— Josh Lanyon

“I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.”

— Josh Lanyon

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

— Josh Lanyon

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

— Josh Lanyon

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

— Josh Lanyon

“My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.”

— Josh Lanyon

“You're crazy about me, Elliot ..." "You know how I know, Elliot?" ... "I know how you feel because I feel the same way.”

— Josh Lanyon

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

— Josh Lanyon

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because…

— Josh Lanyon

“Jake fried up the fish, cooked rice with garlic, cilantro and green onions. Someday he was going to make some woman a…

— Josh Lanyon

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

— Josh Lanyon

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

— Josh Lanyon

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.

— Josh Lanyon