Top 100 Jay Crownover Quotes
#1. His drawl was so smooth, so velvet soft, as it wrapped around me. I just wanted him to whisper things to me in the dark forever.
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#2. How can things begin if you're already planning the ending?
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#3. I deserve it all because I'm willing to give it all. I would have
worked through the darkness with you, Rule. What I won't do is watch you walk
away from me every time something happens that has the potential to hurt you
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#4. Some people screw up, and then some people are screw-ups.
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#5. 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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#6. Anyone else would have gotten up the instant their date showed up with parental supervision.
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#7. Love doesn't go away because the person it's attached to has changed. It simply changes with them.
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#8. They all had spouses and lovers who took some work and yet they never complained or asked for anyone easier.
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#9. I thought maybe since it's you birthday Mr. Tall, Dark and Tattooed would be around. I'm telling you ladies, I'm in stage four lust and it can only be cured by Rule.
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#10. I didn't want to be the thing that made her shatter. She might be a problem solver but I was Mr. Fixit. I didn't break things, I repaired them.
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#11. In my experience as long as he treats you right and appreciates you then no man is the wrong kind of man.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I can't live my life waiting for it not to hurt before I start existing again.
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#16. In this place you never know what pile of shit tomorrow is going to hand you, so having something that makes you feel good for even a second needs to be valued.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#20. I pulled him to me, planted my mouth over his, and kissed the shit out of him. It was one of the greatest and boldest moments of my life, right next to moving and tracking down my brother.
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#21. 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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#22. That you do, Tink, but you also gotta keep your eyes open or the right one is going to pass you by because you were too busy looking for the white whale. -Phil
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#23. 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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#24. You make me want to vomit, and you're lucky we're in a public place or there's a really good chance I would be punching you repeatedly in the face right now.
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#25. Sometimes all people can see is what's different, but those differences are what make us who we are.
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#26. 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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#27. Besides, he's got a girlfriend now and has no interest in the little ink bunnies anymore.
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#28. It looks like you're still running, Ayd. Haven't you figured out the horizon just gets farther and farther away, and the past stays exactly where you left it?
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#29. When a guy like that kisses you, it doesn't matter if you're important or special. All that matters is that it's you he's kissing, and man, was he kissing the shit out of you.
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#30. 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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#31. You have me Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me.
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#32. 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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#33. I never claimed to be an angel and even the devil could only play with fire for so long before he gave in to unholy temptation and danced in the flames.
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#34. 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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#35. I was the least easygoing and carefree person on the planet. I was a storm cloud that ruined picnics, not something full of warmth and light. "I
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#36. Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever.
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#38. 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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#39. Love like this wasn't supposed to be missed, even for those of us that had never realized it was out there. Look at me being all optimistic and shit.
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#40. I wanna have sex, Ayd. Lots and lots of sex ... with you and only you.
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#41. Love doesn't always have to be spoken out loud.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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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#44. What do you mean? We have it, we raise it, we send it to school, keep it from getting eaten by wolves or becoming a stripper, and we're good.
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#45. Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.
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#46. He sings to me at night and it makes my heart hurt. The way he looks at me, I feel like he's trying to pull me apart and put me back together in an even better way.
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#47. 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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#49. I would rather be broke and do something I love, than be wealthy working a nine-to-five job any day.
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#50. He was leaning back against the door watching me with hooded eyes. He wasn't throwing sarcastic barbs at me or ignoring me, he was just watching me.
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#51. Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her.
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#52. No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren't the right one for him.
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#53. I don't know, Half-Pint, something tells me reining you in is probably a pretty good time.
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#54. Being with you is the one thing that feels solid and real ... You're so full of color, so vibrant you never get lost in all the gray in my head. I don't want to lose that.
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#55. 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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#56. I'm dying to know all about this mystical creature that got you to act human for once.
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#57. Bad things happened, it was how we navigated the fallout afterward that really defined what our new normal would be.
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#58. Everything was tied together with thin threads of fate, and when one loosened or tightened it was surprising how impactful it could be.
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#59. You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.
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#60. He was made of fire and Emrys was right, I was made up of things that wanted to go up in flames whenever he got close to me.
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#61. It's like being in love with a loaded weapon and you're the safety.
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#62. Aren't all the best songs about a girl? It doesn't matter if it's metal, if it's country, if it's blues or rock and roll; all the songs that make us remember and make us want to sing along are about the best kind of girl, the kind you can't live without but can't ever get ahold of.
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#63. It's how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.
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#64. Say thank you with words, not hugs. -- Bax to Brysen
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#65. 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?
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#66. 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 just always been you.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. We just made so much sense together even if we made no sense at all
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#71. Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.
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#72. 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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#73. That boy is sprung on you and he is a nice guy. A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He's like a goddamn unicorn.
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#75. I've been fighting every single day of my life. Sometimes I think all I have left is fight.
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#76. 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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#77. You don't need anyone to show you how to be good, you're so much better when you're bad.
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#78. You want to go down in flames, I guess that's your call, but I'm not going to watch you burn.
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#79. 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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#80. There was no hiding what we had been in here doing. It was all over him. I was all over him and he was most definitely stamped all over me. I loved it.
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#81. 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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#82. All I could do was forlornly watch as he put what I was starting to consider his lawyer costume back on, while I sat on the edge of his bed wearing nothing but his ARMY T-shirt and some seriously tousled-sex hair.
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#83. 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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#84. It's not like most guys are going to pass muster with the Terrible Trio anyway. They're a hundred times worse than a dad with a shotgun.
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#85. I always thought it was the firsts that matter, but now I know that it's the lasts that stay with you.
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#87. Fighting for everything made fighting for the things that actually mattered get lost in the noise and lose their significance.
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#88. This Ayden deserves to be happy, regardless of what the future holds, and this Ayden is the one who has to decide why she is settling for milk and cookies when what she really wants is edible body paint and furry handcuffs.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.
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#93. Are you, Mr. Manwhore of
the Century seriously trying to give me relationship advice? - Shaw
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. If you want to harass someone, scare someone, terrorize someone, you might want to pick someone that doesn't have a pissed off boyfriend waiting around the corner ...
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#97. It's okay to be scared, I really think that's how that whatever it is you're meant to be doing matters, but it's not okay to not find that thing you're supposed to be doing because you're afraid of something new.
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#98. I should've appreciated the wonderful child I had, not tried to make you into something else.
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#99. 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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#100. Tell me why when we do this it's so much different than whenever I've done it before.
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