CJ

“Dad rests his hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eye. "Keep making me proud, Eduardo."
These tiny moments of affection are how he's trapped me over the years. The pat on the back after I threatened to have Peter McCall drowned if he ever used his water power in front of me. How Dad bandaged my hand after I beat down Harry Gardner. The praise after Rhys Stone was killed. I've attacked an entire community of people because I got some fatherly love from it. But every time I think about my mother, I know she wouldn't have raised me to be so hateful. I need to change and be someone she would've been proud to call her son.
It's hard when there's so much blood on my hands already.
Sometimes I think about how I would rather be dead than keep hiding my monstrosities behind this mask.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story

“The greatest changes do hurt the most.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story

“Trusting desire, starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“I'll do whatever it takes to finally become myself--whoever that is.
"I'm ready to change.”
― Adam Silvera, First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story