Brothersong Quotes

“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

“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

“Stay here. I can stay here. You go. Run.”
“Really.”
“Yes.”
“Okay. If that’s what you want. I mean, I could probably die or something, but you do you.”
He jerked his head up as he growled. “Die?”
I nodded solemnly. “Might trip over a tree root and break my neck. Or Ox could jump on me and crush my liver. Who the fuck knows?”
“Stupid Carter,” Gavin said.
“Stupid Carter,” I agreed.
“Know what you’re doing.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about. So I’m just gonna go, I guess. Don’t know if I’ll ever come back, seeing as how I might be dead and all. If only there was someone out there who could have my back and—”
He put his hand over my mouth. “Stop talking. You make it worse.” His nostrils flared. “Fine. I’ll go. Stupid Carter always almost dies.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Why are you here? What do you want?"
I closed my eyes. "To feel like I'm awake.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“I just don’t have any idea what I’m doing.”
“Do we ever?”
“We say we do.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Remember something for me, okay? When the moon is full and bright and you’re singing for all the world to hear, I’ll be looking up at the same moon, and I’ll be singing right back to you. For you. Always you.”
― 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

“I’ve been to your house.”

“You have,” Gordo said. “You pissed in my kitchen. You remember?”

Gavin shrugged. “Nope.”

“Really? Because that was a lot of piss that I had to—oh, fuck you, man. You’re yanking my chain, aren’t you.”

Gavin laughed. “Yeah. Yanking your chain. So much piss.”
― 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

“Use your fork.”
“No.”
“Gavin, I swear to god, if you—don’t do it. Don’t pick the mashed potatoes up again with your hand.”
He stared at me as he did it anyway. Making sure I was watching, he shoved the food into his mouth again.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“And then I saw him.

In the snow.

Behind the trees.

A white wolf. Black on his back and chest.

His eyes burned red.

He said chase me i love you chase me.

I said, “Daddy?” because I was just a little boy again, and my father, my father was there, and he was never going to leave me, he was never going to leave me again.

He ran.

I chased after him.

Tree branches slapped against my face and chest, sharp stings as the blanket flared around me. I almost dropped it. I almost let it go.

PackLoveSon to me to me come to me”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“packpackpack sing our wolfsong sing our ravensong sing our heartsong sing for all the world to hear”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Joe fluttered his eyelashes. 'Ooh, Gavin. You made my cold, dead heterosexual heart burst with super gay life and now I can't--oof!'
I tackled him. Hard.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Excuse me for wondering why my f*ing brothers gave you a bottle of lube.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“PackPackPack”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“I was stunned when he raised our joined hands to his lips. He kissed the back of my hand. And then he was gone, as if he hadn’t just devastated me. As if he hadn’t just rocked me down to my foundation.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“How could I ever be happy without you?”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“It's the mystical moon magic,' Tanner said. He was behind my, near my head, leaning over me and studying my face. 'Makes you do dumb things like killing deer and running away to chase after a piece of ass.”
― 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

“Sometimes there isn't a rational explanation, even if we want there to be one. It just feels right.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“I was tired of burning because I was burning alone.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Because that's bullshit,' Joe said. 'No offense--you know what? Fuck that. All the offense. You're an idiot, Carter...”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“We ran because we were loved.
We ran because we were family.
We ran because we were pack.
We were pack.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“You take the weight of everything on your shoulders so that others don’t have to carry the burden. You put others before yourself, even if it’s to your detriment. And finally, finally when you find something all your own, it’s snatched away just as you’re beginning to reach for it. It’s not fair. It never is.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“This," he said, taking my hand. "You. Me. The pack. This place. The people of Green Creek. That's the point, I think. We love because we can. We live because we've fought too hard to ever stop. And here we are, you and me. Together. In a moment, we'll go inside and join the others. We'll eat. We'll laugh. We'll tell stories about our day, inconsequential things that mean little to anyone but us. That's the point, I think.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“But you are not a thing to be discarded. You are flesh and blood. You are important. And not just because of my son or my witch. You are important to me, to this pack, because you have proven yourself beyond measure. We have lost much. We have suffered.” Her voice cracked, but she pushed on. “But we stand tall, because we are the Bennett pack.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“Correvamo perché eravamo amati.
Correvamo perché eravamo una famiglia.
Correvamo perché eravamo branco.
Noi eravamo branco.

- Brothersong // T.J. Klune”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“There are days when I can tell myself I'm forgetting. That it's behind me. And then there's an ocean of blue, and I don’t know how to keep my head above water.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“She said, "Today, today, today. Today feels green. There's still some blue, but that's life, I think. Sometimes it can be a forest. Other times it's an ocean. But we float, don't we? Along the surface. I always thought so, even when I was drowning. There's a song I like. An old one." And remarkably, she started singing. "Sometimes I float along the river, for to its surface I am bound. And there are times stones done fill my pockets, oh Lord, and it's into this river I drown.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong

“For you are one of the lucky to hear the songs of wolves, to have them say your name as if you are the moon that pulls at them.”
― T.J. Klune, Brothersong