Top 100 Jay Crownover Quotes
#2. She didn't hesitate to kiss me back and I decided then and there that kissing Shaw was probably as close to heaven as I was ever going to get.
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#3. You survived in his world by being the best of the worst and there was no doubt in my mind that was exactly what Bax was
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#5. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.
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#6. It's like being in love with a loaded weapon and you're the safety.
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#7. That is one fireball of a girlfriend you got there. The OR team was drawing straws to see who would go out and update her and your family. I think she actually had them scared.
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#8. 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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#9. I don't want you to be a part of my nightmares, Cora. But I'm selfish enough to ask you to want to be.
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#10. Sure. She's classy, elegant, made of sturdy stuff, expensive as hell to keep running and keep pretty. She's only good to me if I'm good to her, so obviously she's a girl.
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#11. Are you, Mr. Manwhore of
the Century seriously trying to give me relationship advice? - Shaw
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#12. You gave all you had for other people, this is the universe's way of paying you back. You earned it all, son, so stop feeling guilty about it and goddamn enjoy it.
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#13. She was also damn cute. Not beautiful or stunningly pretty, but she was cuter than any girl with that much attitude had a right to be, and somehow the bouquet of flowers that colored her skin in every shape and variety seemed like it belonged there.
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#14. Fighting for everything made fighting for the things that actually mattered get lost in the noise and lose their significance.
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#16. I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he had a way with words that was incomparable.
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#17. She was like some kind of balm that made all the ravaged and torn pieces of my soul feel less raw.
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#18. But I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable, like no matter how many times I was shown what an awful idea it was, what a bad match we were, what a callous asshole he could be, I couldn't shake it.
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#19. I love you, Half-Pint. Love that little baby. You understand where I'm at with all of that?" ( ... ) "I know you aren't on the same page as me just yet, Cora, and for right now I'm happy enough we're reading the same book. Eventually you have to turn the page, though, you got me?
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#21. Dedicated to any of you who might just need a little reminder that you are awesome just the way you are!!!
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#22. 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.
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#23. Love doesn't go away because the person it's attached to has changed. It simply changes with them.
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#24. Anyone else would have gotten up the instant their date showed up with parental supervision.
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#25. You are the last person I want to kiss. The last woman I want in my bed. I want you to be the last girl that touches any and all parts of me, Salem, and that means so much more than a first.
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#26. Some people screw up, and then some people are screw-ups.
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#28. You undo me, Saint."
"I'm sorry."
He sighed and rolled over so that he could pull me on top of his chest. "Just try and put me back together when you're done with me, all right?
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#29. I told him if he pulled my tuition I would gladly get a job as a stripper to pay my way through med school, and he hadn't liked it one bit.
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#30. Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever.
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#31. I hated to admit it, but he was all sorts of sexy felon. God, what was wrong with me? That kiss had made me stupid.
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#32. You have me Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me.
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#33. Of course I loved Remy, loved him like a brother, like the best friend and consummate protector he had been, but I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable,
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#34. Besides, he's got a girlfriend now and has no interest in the little ink bunnies anymore.
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#35. That's the girl you complain about driving home with every weekend? That's the girl youwhine endlessly about walking in on you when you're acting the fool? That's the girl you dodge calls from and avoid like the plague? Geez Rule I never knew you were gay.
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#36. Because it's always been you even when I didn't want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It's always been you.
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#37. Every girl I knew had to have a prerequisite infatuation with a bad boy at one time or another, of course they normally grew out of it when they realize the bad boy was just an ass and they deserved better.
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#38. There is no going back but there is accepting your new normal.
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#39. Like recognized like. And while we had both been lost and floundering on our own, when we were together it felt like we were exactly where we were supposed to be.
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#40. I practically saw her panties melt and her vagina throw out a welcome mat.
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#41. I probably have never done it right, but I have always loved you, Keelyn Foster.
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#42. Your gonna change your mind and drop me for a rock star?
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#43. I could chase the shadows with him. As long as he was willing to let me bring the light in.
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#44. I want you to know, this man - the man you are now - he is a man you can be proud of.
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#45. Eventually we all need someone to try and save us; even if they fail, the fact that someone tried might be what matters most in the end.
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#46. I've never trusted anyone all the time. It's the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.
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#47. I was the girl that everyone always assumed was good... so they never asked... but he had and the world stopped.
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#48. 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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#49. I wasn't the type that got jealous, I mean I lived my entire life not being as good as my twin, so I couldn't understand the murderous rage that was suddenly flowing through me, the sudden need to claim something, to announce to the world that she was mine ...
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#50. Most things that are easy aren't worth much. It's the things you have to work for that matter the most.
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#51. You won't be my client forever, Dom, but you will be a cop for the foreseeable future. I already lost someone I cared about and I barely came back from the pain of that. I'm not a strong enough man to care about someone that purposely puts themselves at risk . . . even if you are more than tempting.
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#52. True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.
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#53. You're too busy caring for everyone else to care for youself.
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#54. She was upset about something and all I wanted to do was get her naked and play connect the dots.
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#55. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
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#56. The capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning - Mahatma Gandhi
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#57. You kissed, Wheeler, as in the guy who just canceled his wedding to a raging she-beast?" Her
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#58. I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to use Rule's dude soap and ended up smelling like a seventeen-year-old boy who'd just discovered AXE body spray
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#59. Don't fuck this up, it will be the worst decision you have made to date- and holy hell, have there been a lot of bad decisions made on your part over the years.
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#60. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light
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#61. All I knew for sure was that she was inside me like cold drops of water next to all the burning things that had lived there for years. I was in no hurry to get her out, because something about her was cool and soothing to all the parts of me that had been on fire for far too long.
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#62. People change. Time makes us grow. Life happens, good and bad, and it's the person you love, the man inside you can't live without, not the sum of what he did or didn't do when he was younger and still figuring life out.
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#63. She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I'd ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.
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#64. I'm always yours, Rule. I will so totally marry you and it would make me happier than anything in the entire world to be an Archer. I don't need a ring or a speech. All I ever need is you.
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#65. Next time you could just pee in a circle around me so that they know you've already been there.
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#66. Love isn't logical or reasonable. Our hearts make no sense.
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#67. 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.
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#68. I was caught up in the tempest of this woman and I was in no hurry to get myself free of her.
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#69. You seem ... unsettled." Was "unsettled" another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled.
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#70. Sometimes Opposite do Just More Than Attract ... They Catch fire and Burn the City Down ...
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#71. There had been those who touched me in the past, who knew what they were doing, who made me feel wanted, beautiful, and necessary. But no one had ever made me feel owned and devoured the way Titus did.
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#72. I wasn't into all that power and domination crap, but with her, man, I could play lord and master all day long if she was into it.
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#73. 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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#74. Some boys . . . they are just better when they're bad. Bax is one of them and I'm starting to think my brother might be one of them, too. I just have to be good enough for all of us to balance it out.
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#75. Easy is very forgettable, my friend, complicated and difficult stays with you forever. Believe me, I married it.
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#76. No one is perfect, Jet. We all have things that have happened, that are going to happen that make us who we are, and maybe you need to look past all the superficial stuff you see when you look at this girl and see what's underneath.
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#77. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.
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#78. We can know one thing, Rowdy, but our heart holds on to something else."
"I don't want it to hold on to that anymore. I just want it to hold on to you.
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#80. Not only did the girl look like a fairytale princess but she was also on track to be a freaking doctor.
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#81. You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have.
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#82. All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.
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#83. I have a hard time picturing anyone wanting to let you go, even though you have being grumpy down to an art form
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#84. It really was all about where I had ended up and not where I had been, because as long as he was there, wherever that happened to be was going to be where I was supposed to be at as well.
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#85. I made a noise in my throat and tried to remember why I thought I'd missed her the last couple of days.
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#87. Loving someone you want to make your own has a different feeling, a different power than the love you have for family. It's different and the chains that bind it can be unbreakable.
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#88. Look at me being all optimistic and shit.
Remy would be so proud.
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#89. 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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#90. He would always be something sharp and deadly on the inside, something that could be used to destroy, but every blade needs a sheath and every gun needs a holster to protect it. I had no problem offering myself up as the thing that kept this particular weapon secure.
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#91. Stop trying to be something you aren't and just let her love you.
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#92. I'm not giving you his number because he's mine and if you get anywhere near him I swear to God the thing I do to you will be chronicled on Investigation Discovery for years to come
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#93. your eyes could inspire men to go to war, to paint works of art, to rip their goddamn heart out of their chest and offer it to you without a second thought .
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#94. We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.
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#95. There was no instinct to pretend - there was only the wish to protect the girl I knew I would love forever.
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#96. She was going to be my downfall. She was going to be my corruption and my vice. She was going to be my addiction and my compulsion and I was still going to fall headlong into her knowing the landing was going to be rough for both of us.
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#97. For you to be considering someone else like that is more like turning over a whole freaking tree, not just a leaf, but good for you.
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#98. I call my dad 'Admiral Ass Hat,' he doesn't really think it's funny.
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#99. 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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#100. Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique,
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