Pray For Him Quotes

“I can’t wait to see the garden we’ll grow together.
Love,
Hector”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“The light, at last, reached those kind eyes. “Let’s go home.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hector had been his first kiss, his tenth kiss, and he hoped he would be his last kiss, too, together now until the end of time.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“This was always what he had to offer: a heart too heavy to bear alone.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“He felt an electric jolt down his spine for the contact that was so close to what he wanted, something that might have been godly in another time, another life.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Isaias wondered if he would ever heal, or if he, too, would be forever marked, if flowers growing out of him would make him a grave.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“He watched the steady rise and fall of Hector’s chest, a buoy in the ocean that was all this suffering.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hector held onto him as if he were afraid that Isaias would let go of him, as if he would break in the short fall to the plush mattress below. Never before had Hector, his strong, steadfast Hector, seemed so delicate.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“With nothing but his heart to guide him, Isaias drove near aimlessly down street after street until he felt a strange warmth spread through his belly, up into his chest, through his shoulders. Like Hector was calling him home.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Isaias stared out at the road, searching, driving aimlessly, and not knowing what to do. Except to reach out to Hector, and hope Hector would shine like a lighthouse through the dark that clouded his soul.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hold on for the future we could almost have. I don’t want to face a version of the world where you are a regret. Where I have to wonder what another life might have looked like, with you still in it. Where I can only dream of planting flowers in our garden together.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hoping to be yours,
Isaias”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Where I can only dream of planting flowers in our garden together.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“I don’t want to face a version of the world where you are a regret. Where I have to wonder what another life might have looked like, with you still in it.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Not just physically, but emotionally. Know him. What’s he smell like to you, feel like to you? Taste him, his soul. Feel the last ounce of him before I drain it all away. Last chance, Father Fuck Up, before I have him all to myself.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“The arrhythmic pulse of Hector’s soul mimicked a weakening heart, faint and unsteady. Fading. Meanwhile something coated it like grease, difficult to wash off. The demon didn’t have his own soul, surely, so it instead clung to Hector’s like a film of oil.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“These were the things that he prayed with: his heart was his prayer, and it felt sublime. And when he felt something stirring his heartstrings in reply, he sobbed.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“If we make it out of this alive, I promise you I won’t hold back.
I will tell you that you are divine. I will tell you that I worship your goodness. I will tell you that you are a bright light in this world. My world.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“It doesn’t feel ironic, though, so much as prophetic: you are so good that of course the demonic had to come for you. Taking your goodness is a loss for the world, and a win for the forces of Hell, because what better way to crush hope than to take the best among us?”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hector,
I don’t think I ever told you that I have dreamt of you. Like a beatific vision, you appeared to me, haloed by radiant light. I don’t know what it meant, or if it had to mean anything at all. Maybe it was just my subconscious recognizing the divine in you.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Come with me,” he said softly to Hector as he helped him to his feet. Hector, normally so strong, too weak to stand on his own. “And I will fight to save you.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“What Isaias had thought was something blocking him from reading Hector was something far worse than he had allowed himself to imagine. The fire inside of Hector was dying.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Something like worry, something like regret, crept into Hector’s emotions like a crawling vine.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“The smell of something charred was back. Then, in a dangerously low voice, like an animal watching its prey, Hector asked, “You think you can’t be corrupted, man of God?”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Isaias saw something shift in his eyes, from gentle to predatory. “I’m sorry to have worried you.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Nothing Isaias did was of any significance in the face of the Devil, was it? Forces of that magnitude—the Devil, let alone God Himself—would surely be indifferent to Isaias.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Maybe it was petty for Isaias to worry what Hector might think of him, what he might see in him, when Hector’s soul might be on the line.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“he let Hector go, at once feeling his absence. He also felt an ache in his temple and in his ribs.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Their emotions swelled together, magnifying each other and creating an echo chamber of fear and—and what? Isaias was distracted; he couldn’t quite make out the nuances of the feelings that flowed through the conduit that their contact had made.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him

“Hector’s hand on him, his hand on Hector, seemed to create a perfect circuit, through which Isaias’s emotions flowed into Hector and from which Isaias finally started to feel what Hector felt again, some shadow of his hopes, his dreams, his fears, his secrets.”
― Tyler Battaglia, Pray For Him