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“You, Kelly.
Always you.
You are the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
You’re my first memory. Mom was holding you, and I wanted to take you for myself, hide you away so no one would hurt you.
You’re my first love. I knew that when you would always smile when you saw me, and it was like staring into the sun.
You’re my heart.
You are my soul.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“Remember when it was this great big secret? Now everyone knows, and everyone wants to shoot something. Fucking humans, man. Now, where are my guns? I want to shoot something.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“Robbie.”

Grass.

Lake water.

Sunshine. So much sunshine. As if the world was on fire.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“Joe looked curious, glancing between Kelly and me.

Ox’s expression was blank.

“Kelly,” Joe said. “You okay?”

“I’m fine,” Kelly said, sounding exasperated. “I’m getting really sick and tired of that question.”

“As your Alpha, I—”

“I’m older than you,” Kelly retorted. “I changed your diaper when you shit yourself. You may be my Alpha, but I’ve wiped your ass, Joe.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“It took eight months, but then we found you. In Caswell. There was a wolf who said he’d seen you in the compound. He was visiting, and he recognized you from your picture. He said he tried to talk to you, tried dropping a couple of hints, but there was nothing.”

I couldn’t think of who this had been.

“And it hurt,” Kelly continued, “because he said you seemed happy. And I almost convinced myself that maybe what we’d thought was right, that you had betrayed us. But then I remembered something, and I knew it couldn’t be true.”

“What did you remember?”

“The way you loved me.”

It was a punch to the stomach.

“You loved me,” Kelly said softly, “without reservation. Without expecting anything in return. You loved me, and I knew that you wouldn’t stop, not unless you were forced to. And I knew then that I wouldn’t stop, no matter what it took.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“We must remember to say what’s in our hearts aloud because we can never know if it’ll be the last time we’ll ever get the chance.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“It was warm like a summer day. It was candy canes and pinecones, it was epic and awesome, it was dirt and leaves and rain, it was grass and lake water and sunshine.

It was a forest so alive, so untouched.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“He said, “Listen well, my son.”
He said, “Listen with all your might.”
He said, “Your pack is howling you home.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“He sees through that, though. I exasperate him, I annoy him, and he scowls at me like he wants to punch my fucking teeth down my throat. And it all goes away when he says thump, thump, thump. Because he hears my heart and it anchors him. How can I say no to that? Who cares if he’s a man or a woman or somewhere in between? It doesn’t matter. All I care about is that he sees me. Like, really sees me. And I see him.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Livingstone,” Gavin said again, almost stubbornly. “I call him Livingstone. Not Dad. I had….”

“You had,” I said, squeezing his hand.

He glanced at me quickly before looking back down at the table. “I had Dad. Mom too. Not real parents. But still good.”

“What happened to them?” Robbie asked quietly.

“Dead,” Gavin said in a dull voice. “Long time ago. Still human when it happened. Car accident. I didn’t know what to do. After. Then I was wolf. Then I was Omega. And now I’m here.”

All those years broken down into a few short sentences. I wondered if I would ever know all that had happened to him or if it would be locked away in his mind. Memories hurt when you let them.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Wherever you are, that’s where my home is.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“You could have become the villain, Gordo. And it would have been within your rights. Instead you just chose to be an asshole.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“Do you see the mark on his neck?” I asked her. She nodded tightly. “The raven.” “Do you know what that means?” “Yes.” “Then you know I would do anything for him.” “Would you?” she asked. “Why now? Why after all this time?” “Because if this is the end,” I said as honestly as I could, “he needed to know that I never stopped loving him.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“But the funny thing about hate is the razor-thin line that separates it from something else entirely.”
― T.J. Klune, Ravensong

“We are literally the gayest pack that has ever existed,” Rico said to no one in particular. “I see no problem with this.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong