Taylor ✨

“Because it was safer than being out in the sun and letting people in. It was better to hide and wonder than reveal and know the truth.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“People could be cruel. I heard it when people called me names behind my back. I heard it when they said the same things to my face. I heard it in the sound the door made when my father left. I heard it in the crack of my mother’s voice.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“Ox?” she asked. “What’s going on?” She looked very tired. “Hey, Mom,” I said. “Why are you crying?” “I’m not.” And I wasn’t, because I was a man now.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“It was reverence. It was grace. It was beauty. I wondered if this meant I could finally breathe. Like I had found my place in this world I didn’t understand. Embroidered. Red. White. Blue. Two letters, stitched perfectly. Ox, the work shirt read. Like I mattered. Like I meant something. Like I was important. Men don’t cry. My daddy taught me that. Men don’t cry because they don’t have time to cry. I must not have been a man yet because I cried. I bowed my head and cried.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong