Tallowwood Quotes

“You just need someone who knows how your puzzle goes back together.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“When you lose someone you love, something in you changes. You can’t get the pieces to fit together again because the picture of you has been changed. They need to understand your pain and how it changed you before they can understand how the new you needs to be loved.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“He would have been so happy. He should have been alive to see that, to celebrate it. They all should have lived long enough to see that. And to see gay politicians, out and proud. Or gay superhero movies, gay couples on primetime TV. He should have been alive to see that. That was stolen from him, from them all.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“name, room by room. Until he found him in the bathtub . . . Scarlett jumped up on his lap and began to purr. She nudged his chest and demanded a pat, like she somehow knew that he needed affection. He needed the universe to reach out and remind him that he was still breathing, and Scarlett meowed quietly, nudging him again, and August couldn’t help but smile.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“They want you to be the old August or the guy we used to know, but you’re not that person anymore. When you lose someone you love, something in you changes. You can’t get the pieces to fit together again because the picture of you has been changed. They need to understand your pain and how it changed you before they can understand how the new you needs to be loved.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“You’re still you. You’re just made up of different parts now. There are new pieces to who you are. Those pieces aren’t wrong or broken, they’re just different to how you used to be. And that’s okay. Actually, that’s a good thing. You should be different after everything you’ve been through. It means you’re human, August. You don’t need to be alone. You just need someone who knows how your puzzle goes back together.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“And the more someone hates you, the better than them you need to be, because nothing’ll piss them off more than you being more successful than they are.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“What? Being Aboriginal, and gay, and a cop?” Jacob chuckled. “Take your pick which one people have the biggest issue with. Actually, don’t bother. It’s like a wheel of judgement. Take a spin, round it goes, where it stops, no one knows.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“Sure, he scowled a lot and his resting bitch face was more of a don’t-fucking-speak-to-me face, but Jacob saw through that. There was more to August Shaw than met the eye.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood

“Gay as a unicorn on a rainbow with confetti and sparkles, dancing to a soundtrack of Cher and Kylie Minogue.”
― N.R. Walker, Tallowwood