“You can’t tell a little kid that you swear to God over something and then not do it. You may effectively ruin my childhood.” He looks off into nothing, a wistful expression on his face. “Gosh, think of the therapy… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“I wonder now, with everything said and done, if things would have been different had I remembered what the Tree had told me. Would I have made the same decisions, the same mistakes? Where would I be, had I remembered? Had I listened? I have learned in my short time here on this world that we as humans are all… — TJ Klune Copy Share
“Why is everyone being all quiet?" the Kid asks. "Are we having a staring contest? If so, you should have told me because I… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“You don’t ever doubt me again,” he said hoarsely before his mouth grazed my nipples, first the left and then the right. His scruffy beard scraped the skin beneath raw as he went back and forth. “I will fucking kill you if you ever doubt me again!” he snarled. My eyes rolled back into their sockets at the weight of… — TJ Klune Copy Share
“Yeah, ’cause you were so quick to speak up earlier? it mocks. What’s that one guy’s name again? The one who is your heart… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“I sit up straighter and puff out my chest a little bit, unsure why I'm doing so even as I do it. I know… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“Because you’re worried, Bear. And it makes me nervous. You know when you worry, I worry. It’s just something we do.” — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens standing outside… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“You can’t tell a little kid that you swear to God over something and then not do it. You may effectively ruin my childhood.”… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“Then it hit me and I grinned at him. “You want to suck my dick!” His face grew redder. “You don’t have to say… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“Bear. It’s always been you. It will always be you. I love you, and that’s why it will always be enough.” — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her how that praise had made me feel, how starved I’d felt for any kind of attention, that I’d begun… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
