Alec Quotes

“The light revealed that he was loved to his core, also that he had done nothing to earn or merit such love, but that it was love’s nature to love.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Under the law they were criminals; outside it, merely young lovers.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“and he held out his hand. Maurice took it, and they knew at that moment the greatest triumph an ordinary man can win. They saw now how natural it was that their abandonment to each other at Penge should have led to peril. They knew too little about each other—and too much. Hence fear.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Anyway, she says she welcomes love any way it manifests. ‘It’s the enemy of war,’ she says. So she’s glad for us.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“The sight caused him to realize that he was truly alone for the first time since enlisting, therefore truly himself, not playing a role for family or comrades or visitors in the hospital. (Only with Maurice could he be with another and still truly himself.)”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Ain't it over? They said it was fuckin' over! At the very moment when Alec's tears were salting Swavely's blood, people were cheering, dancing, drinking in Piccadilly, Times Square, on the Champs-Élysées. He hated them. There were only two kinds now, those who had fought and those who had not, and he hated those who had not.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“When you followed the car that morning at Penge and I saw you there in the rain, I could have knelt in the mud at your feet, I could have cut out my heart and begged you, Here, take it. It's already yours, it's no good to me without you—”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“But just as important to his education was Alec's understanding that both of his teachers were like him. This enriched his knowledge of himself and his kind: of himself, because he found he possessed this particular insight by nature; of his kind, because he now saw there were many of his sort, throughout all livelihoods and social classes, as different from one another as were folks who called themselves normal.”
― William di Canzio, Alec

“Did they all see through him? Risley, Mrs. W? This was something new about being queer, this innuendo and subterfuge, and it sickened him.”
― William di Canzio, Alec