And thus I wonder about so many gay men I’ve met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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Karl Lagerfeld
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
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Shannon L. Alder
The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was familiar, and something about it made my chest ache. Well, that was to be expected. Angels' songs would be awfully poignant. "'I was working as a...
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Rachel Hawkins
A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
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Amit Kalantri
MOMWholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devotion. It was a blessing- To have been her son, To have been loved- Without conditions. Her words of wisdom- Opened my eyes- To the world- And to myself. By seeing the best in me, She...
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Giorge Leedy
More Quotes By Paul Monette
It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual orientation, was the universal battleground, and no easier for straight than gay.
Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows,...
The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.
I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
