All the Young Dudes Quotes

“Five minutes passed, and everyone chattered around them, before heading off in their different directions, nodding goodbye and finally leaving the scene as peaceful as they had found it. Sirius and Remus had not moved, only pretended to look at their book and crossword, two friends, content in each other’s company.

Alone, they both looked up. Remus’s eyes burned so brightly, they were so full of every dark secret, every private moment. Sirius swallowed, dryly, thrilled and amazed. Remus grinned, and the force of it was enough to knock Sirius out cold.

“All right?” Remus asked, softly.

“Yeah.” Sirius whispered back”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes: Christmas Compilation

“What are you doing after this?” Yaz asked, still smiling, “Fancy a walk?”

“Er… my friend Mary’s outside…”

Yaz shrugged,

“You see her all the time. Come for a walk with me.”

“Um. Yes. Ok.” Oh wow. Now it was happening, she had no idea what to do at all. “The… bruise?”

“Oh yeah,” Yaz laughed, tossing back her head and touching a finger to her jaw line, “Just here…”

Marlene leaned forward to see, and Yaz turned her head smoothly, catching her in a kiss, full in the lips.

Butterflies.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes: Christmas Compilation

“The butterflies flapped their wings again, and it felt good. Exciting. Starting something new. After the summer, she had thought she might never have that feeling again - the chances seemed so impossibly stacked against her. As Marlene shampooed her hair, for some reason she thought of Remus. A few times, lately, she had thought of talking to him. She felt guilty; Remus had always been such a troubled figure, so brave and strong and yet for some reason so repressed and locked down. Bursting with emotions but apparently unable to express any of them. And now they all knew why, she felt so sorry for him. She’d wanted to say something, on their way back from healing classes, which was the only time they were alone, usually. She’d wait for an empty corridor and stop and turn to him and say, very quietly, “Me too, Remus. You aren’t alone.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes: Christmas Compilation

“Sticks and stones.” She tutted at him, putting her wand away and walking down the stairs, her cheeks hot and her throat tight. She held her head high. You never let them see how it feels. You never let them know it works. “Run along, little boy!”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes: Christmas Compilation

“he looked so different, asleep. without his sharp, watchful eyes open, remus's face softened, making him look younger; more fragile. silvery scars caught the grey winter light, the only outward sign of how impossibly strong remus was. how resilient. tough. sirius could remember wanting to be remus, very early on. the rock stars sirius adopted as heroes during those years had all seemed so much more like moony, they had belonged to his world. remus was fierce, and cool, slightly feral - he didn't take shit from anyone, least of all adults. at grimmauld place, in the holidays, sirius would think about his half-blood friend, wonder what he might say when walpurga got in his face. he wouldn't be frightened. he wouldn't give in”
― MsKingBean89 , All the Young Dudes: Christmas Compilation