A Single Bright Candle's Flame Quotes

“Who we are, what we love, what we intend, what we feel,” the old wolf shook his head. “Sometimes we can’t find that in English, but it’s our common meeting ground. Yet we were shaped by other tongues and move to the cadence of other music.” His gaze dropped to Seong-Jae’s lips. “So I want to know what music moves you to speak.”
― Cole McCade, A Single Bright Candle's Flame

“Seong-Ja is an ordinary, happy girl who has high school issues and growing pains just like any other teenage girl, and she should get to be just that: a happy trans girl with a normal life and a loving family that doesn’t treat her or her trans-ness as a burden or an oddity. A happy trans girl whose nature and existence are accepted as ubiquitously normal, instead of treating her like an embarrassing spectacle who constantly has to be explained to her detriment and humiliation. A happy trans girl whose existence, too, isn’t used as a teaching tool for cis folk—and who doesn’t require the performance of trans pain that some people seem to think is necessary to ever empathize with trans people or characters”
― Cole McCade, A Single Bright Candle's Flame

“I’ve always thought you were a strange man, Edmund Bishop.” “I am that, yes,” Edmund agreed. “Are you strange, too?” Their smile strengthened, sad but sweet. “We’re all a little strange, I think.”
― Cole McCade, A Single Bright Candle's Flame

“She just frustrates me so much.” “She’s a teenage girl. It’s what they live for.”
― Cole McCade, A Single Bright Candle's Flame

“Don’t go all Hulk smash on me, dickhead.”
― Cole McCade, A Single Bright Candle's Flame