Marshall Thornton

“I wasn't exactly sure that getting someone a job as a porn star was completely altruistic. But maybe I was being judgemental.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Was that all life really was? A series of betrayals? Was there no way we could avoid damaging each other?”

— Marshall Thornton

“Stalking is a felony," Jason pointed out. "They've made loving someone criminal?" "Only if you've never met them.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Always be careful who you trick with. I should have that tattooed on my forehead so I can see it every morning…

— Marshall Thornton

“I wish I could hate you. It would make things so much more...I don't know, organized. Loving you is such a mess."…

— Marshall Thornton

“Hanson looked at me like I'd just claimed I could make a nuclear bomb out of laundry detergent, string, and a can…

— Marshall Thornton

“That was the problem with most relationships, when they began you never know what they'd cost you.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Call me a prude but blow jobs should only be traded for blow jobs; and then only between consenting adults.”

— Marshall Thornton

“So, Carter, if you need to talk about anything, you know, about being gay. If there are things that you don't understand…

— Marshall Thornton

“A true homosexual would never turn down sex. The megapastor at his mama's church had given many a sermon about the immoral,…

— Marshall Thornton

“They all think I'm a queer now." "I can't say I disagree with them." "I'm not. I'm not queer." I shrugged. "Okay,…

— Marshall Thornton

“I found an online knife store. I'd rather go and pick one up so that I had it today, but then I…

— Marshall Thornton

“He had to admit that Ricky didn't pick up strangers. He got names, numbers, professions, life stories, hopes, dreams, and ambitions, then…

— Marshall Thornton

“Yes, he was still relatively inexperienced, but he did know that long discussions of politically incorrect pejoratives in the middle of a…

— Marshall Thornton

“He's in the mafia, you know." Jan frowned. "Not everyone who's Italian is in the mafia." "That may be true in Italy-but…

— Marshall Thornton

“Martin would be fifty in four hundred and thirty-seven days, and that reality was beginning to wear on him, like Chinese water…

— Marshall Thornton

“That's not a very nice word," he said, as though I were a four-year-old who'd just repeated the word "fuck".”

— Marshall Thornton

“Yes, the show must go on, but it's also important to survive until the curtain calls.”

— Marshall Thornton

“a man who whipped out a double-headed dildo on a first date was probably not the romantic type.”

— Marshall Thornton

“It always surprised me that on the right guy a layer of sweat was sexy as hell, and on the wrong guy…

— Marshall Thornton

“Actually having sex with a screenwriter typically led to a blockbuster.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Cab drivers, waiters, hairdressers, everyone thinks they can write a movie.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Obviously the best way to attract someone is to pretend to be someone you're not.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Getting fucked really isn't my thing." "Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Talk dirty to me. Call me names." "You dirty, dirty, old person." Praline said rather unenthusiastically.”

— Marshall Thornton

“About six responses popped into my head, all of them full of course words.”

— Marshall Thornton

“You don't know what you're missing." I was thirty-four years old. I had a pretty good idea what I was missing.”

— Marshall Thornton

“If you look out for the sunny side of the street, the sunny side of the street will look out for you.”

— Marshall Thornton

“I fell in love. Why can't I fall out of it?" He got a look on his face, which I knew meant…

— Marshall Thornton

“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Take your clothes off. Slowly," he told Carter. So this is what romantic is , Carter thought. Kissing and watching each other strip.”

— Marshall Thornton

“They are so good they can get serial killers before they even get started.”

— Marshall Thornton

“I crossed my fingers. On both hands. Then my toes. I may have even crossed my eyes.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Since I was pretty sure he was just an asshole and not a murdering asshole, I told him to suck my dick.”

— Marshall Thornton

“They say you get a hard-on when you die. Apparently, it doesn't go away.”

— Marshall Thornton

“You think love is about sharing minutiae. I think love is about making decisions with the other person in mind.”

— Marshall Thornton

“Not-Dave G. gave Praline a long stare, the kind of stare that telegraphed not just lust, but three or four possible sex…

— Marshall Thornton

“Even though it was only the word 'like', it roughly followed the same rules as the other L word.”

— Marshall Thornton

“In Hollywood, it isn't how old you are. It's how old you pretend to be.”

— Marshall Thornton