Jay Crownover Quotes

“I almost saw your boyfriend naked this morning."
I laughed at the look on her face. "I don't know what to say to that, you're welcome?”

— Jay Crownover

“Rule if this goes bad it's gonna be so, so bad." Her voice was just a husky whisper against my chest.
"True, but if it's good it's going be so very, very good.”

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“I know I messed up but I'm here for real now. We're going to do this and I promise I'll take care of you as best I can. You're going to have to be patient with me because I'm flying blind.”

— Jay Crownover

“Love doesn't always have to be spoken out loud.”

— Jay Crownover

We love you, dude, but I swear to God, if you put me in a position where I have to pick between you and Shaw, she is going to win every single time, hands down. Know it.

— Jay Crownover

“It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.”

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“We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways. We were all better men for it. Marked men. None of us would have it any other way.”

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“You will NEVER be just a guy, Rome. You're the best brother a guy could have. You're a fucking hero. No one, and I mean no one, has ever had my back the way you have. You are an incredible person, be it in the army fighting a war or sitting on the goddamn couch watching the game. Don't forget it.”

— Jay Crownover

“Guys Rule's girl is here and she's like an actual girl with an actual brain. un-freaking-believable.”

— Jay Crownover

“I adore Rule. I think it's genetically impossible not to be kind of in love with him when you come equipped with a vagina.”

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“I liked music that I didn't have to think about, and most country songs spelled it right out for the listener. The girl was mad because the guy cheated, the guy was mad his pickup got trashed, everyone was sad the dog died, and Taylor Swift had about as much luck with men as I did.”

— Jay Crownover

“If he was the right guy you wouldn't have felt that way. You would have made the time because you wanted to be with him.”

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“Love is a goddamn scary thing. Facing it takes brass balls, and we all know you have a pair.”

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“I choose you, Sayer. Lover, lawyer, and all the shit you are in between that, I choose it. I choose us. when you're ready to accept that, you come find me.”

— Jay Crownover

“People could only hurt you and disappoint you if you let them. They only had the power to hurt you if you thought they were special and above that.”

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I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it.

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“It's like being in love with a loaded weapon and you're the safety.”

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We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

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“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize that their daughter died for no other reason than people can't figure out how to be nice to each other. It isn't that hard, just be nice and people might not have to suffer needlessly, but that isn't the world we live in, so young girls die. That isn't fair, Mom. People falling out of love is vicious and it sucks, but there are far worse things you could be going through. I know that sounds harsh but it's very true.”

— Jay Crownover

You're too busy caring for everyone else to care for youself.

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“Love isn't something you can negotiate, Nash. When it happens, it becomes everything.”

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“Only a fool gets burned twice by the same fire.”

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Every time I can't seem to figure out where I'm going lately I always end up where you are.

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“We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.”

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“I wasn't going to tell her what she smelled like because it was sweet and lovely and I had no desire to be nice at the moment.”

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The thing about heavy-metal bars is that there are heavy-metal guys in every corner.

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“I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work. -Thomas A. Edison”

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Are you, Mr. Manwhore of
the Century seriously trying to give me relationship advice? - Shaw

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“I had the best sex of my life with a girl I had thought was way out of my league and in love with my dead brother. Yeah, Nash was probably right, if anybody could put up with all the crazy I was rocking I should probably lock her in quick because even I could see how seriously screwed up I am.”

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“I kissed her because I had to. I kissed her because I wanted to. I kissed her because kissing her was starting to make me feel like I had found something I wasn't really aware I had been looking for. Mostly I kissed her because ever time she kissed me back I felt her settling a piece of herself even more deeply inside of me.”

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“I kissed the living shit out of her as I came harder than I ever had in my life. I kissed her until neither of us could breathe. Kissed her until she was pulling at my ears to get me to let her go. Kissed her until I felt her start to shimmy and quake around my dick. Kissed her until I sent her back over the edge while I tried to get my wits and rationality back. I kissed her like I knew there were only a limited number of times she was going to let me do it, and I was going to make each one a memory.”

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“He might have been a criminal in the past, but now I was the one that wanted to steal something from him and keep it for my own ... he was going to put up a fight once he realized I was after his heart. After all, it was my job to capture the bad guy ... only this one I wasn't planning on letting go of.”

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“Right now, I needed to be the man I tried so hard not to be in order to be someone worthy of the girl I was trying to save. I”

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He's right. I should have told him how I felt forever ago. I just couldn't. I was scared telling him I loved him would mean it would all fall apart and it would destroy me if it didn't work out. He always tells me I color his entire world, but he did the same thing for me. If what I felt for Jimmy is beige, then what I feel for Rome is a damn box of Crayola crayons. I shouldn't have been such a baby and just let him know. He is perfect for me, Nash.

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“I feel like you and the past have been chasing me down ever since you walked into that shop, Salem." She didn't answer me but I noticed a little pink work its way into her dusky cheeks. "What are you going to do if I decide to let you catch me?”

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“I don't need luck. I have you.”

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“I guess at the end of the day it's better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn't it?
She was absolutely right about that.”

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“The trick is staying found, I think. It's easy to get lost when your life is constantly in a state of disarray. The right path gets obscured as quickly as you make it."
He put a hand on my shoulder and told me solemnly, "That's why you find something or someone that guides you, someone that won't lose you, and someone that you don't mind getting lost with when that inevitably happens.”

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“I kissed her. I kissed her so that she could feely regret, my desire to do right, the way that she had a piece of me now and I wasn't letting go. I kissed her because I had to and kissing her made me feel better.”

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“If there was such a think as being tragically flawless and ferociously immaculate, then those were conditions that she definitely suffered from.”

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“I got used to everyone needing me, to them relying on me, and now that I wasn't needed anymore I simply just didn't know what to do with myself.”

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I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her.

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“I will make THIS worthwhile. I will make THIS enough until we can tackle more. THIS matters, whatever it is, and for now THIS is everything, okay?”

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“He was talking about someplace called Spanky's over in the District. The District was where all the working girls lived and worked. It was where all the strip clubs and bars where girls were looking to make ends meet on their backs were at. It was still in the Point, just one more part of what living on the poor side of town brought you.”

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Don't be scared, Captain No-Fun, we got this.

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She might look like a dream and taste like dessert, but I knew there was a lot of tart underneath that pretty outer shell.

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The cop and the criminal. Who would have ever seen that coming?"
"I saw it from a mile away ... and you're a reformed criminal."
"I stole your heart, didn't I?"
"I stole yours first, Asa."
"You can't take something that was yours all along, Red.

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“I really, really like that even though we both know you deserve so much better, I'm the one you want.”

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“I can't be perfect for you, but I can be someone you rely on, someone you want to keep around even though it isn't always going to be easy.”

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“We are all sinners in some way or another.”

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