Alec

“O'Shea—he's a defenseman—was talking about some guy who hit his car, called him a fucking faggot. Do you know how often I've always heard that word? It doesn't have to be about someone who is gay, though a lot of the guys have issues with that too, but calling someone a fag is the worst insult they can think of because, to them, it's the worse thing to be.”
― Riley Hart, The Endgame

“That's something they didn't warn you about getting older, seeing your parents age too, seeing them as people, sad and afraid and haunted by their own mistakes.”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay

“It’s what you didn’t say, Dad.” Cooper could hear his voice loud and steady, like it had been growing inside him and waiting to burst out for years. “You never even mentioned it. Like it didn’t exist. Like it didn’t even cross your mind that I could be gay or bi or anything else. How was I to know it was okay? I never heard it from you. It wasn’t my job to tell you. It was yours to make me feel like I didn’t have to hide it from you.”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay

“The world would reel, but then again, wasn't it already reeling? Was there some kind of terminal velocity of terrible things, a finite limit the world could take? Or was that just the human soul?”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy of My Enemy