Louis Muñoz

“What had it been like for those boys, that transitional generation? Lying in bed, whispering secrets with a best friend, holding hands, kissing cheeks, age-old patterns of friendship that no longer seemed quite so innocent… ​Why hadn’t they fought harder to keep it? ​Why had it been taken away at all?”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

“wasn’t so much something about Chase, it was what he made Jack feel when he took his hand, and it wasn't an unpleasant or untrustworthy feeling as he'd made out, but something exciting, as if the touch held a promise. Of what, was a matter he was too out of sorts to consider.”
― Jackson Marsh, Finding a Way

“Always denied, never expressed, but impossible to ignore, the thought he was different to normal men plagued his mind when he allowed it to, and although he kept the thought as deeply covered as he could, it rose to the surface in moments such as the one that had just passed.”
― Jackson Marsh, Finding a Way

“like the long descriptions that you don’t get anymore, and the way that Dickens will use six adjectives when he could use just one, and the meandering plots. And—and I like how emotional old books are,” Caleb admitted, wriggling in embarrassment. “I feel like people actually are that emotional, and characters in modern books are too restrained.”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier