Quotes of Jay Crownover

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“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.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“Here’s my heart Shaw. You have it in your hands and I promise you’re the first and last person to ever touch it. You need to be careful with it because it’s far more fragile than I ever thought and if you try and give it back I’m not taking it. I don’t know enough about love to know for sure that’s what this between us is, but I know that for me it’s you and only you from here on out and I can only promise to be careful and not push you away again. Life without you in it is doable, but if I have a choice I want to do it with you by my side and I’m telling you I’m not running away from the work it takes to make that happen. Shaw I’m not scared of us anymore.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“Opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down1” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“I think it’s genetically impossible not to be kind of in love with him when you come equipped with a vagina. It’s just something about all that angsty, moody swagger he has that makes you want to cuddle him up and make him feel better.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“You have me Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“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
“I think I wanted it too much and you didn't want it enough.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“I don’t care what color your hair is, if you’re pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me.  You’re beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe I would be honored to put it there for you but if not I’ll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“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.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“You have to promise not to bail on me when I get lost, Shaw. You have to promise to just wait it out until I can find my way back. I need to know you’re at the end of the tunnel when everything goes black.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“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.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“I’m not Jet so I can’t write you a song that makes you understand how important you are to me.  I’m not Nash so I can’t find a building and paint you a mural that makes see that it all starts and ends with you for me. I’m a tattoo artist, I’ll probably always be a tattoo artist (...) Here’s my heart Shaw.  You have it in your handsand I promise you’re the first and last person to ever touch it.  You need tobe careful with it because it’s far more fragile than I ever thought and if you try and give it back I’m not taking it.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“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, Rule
“Look at me being all optimistic and shit.Remy would be so proud.” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
“Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.” ― Jay Crownover, Jet
“Love doesn’t always have to be spoken out loud.” ― Jay Crownover, Rome
“I don't have a ring. I don't have a pretty speech prepared. All I know is that I love you more than life itself and I want every single person in this room to know that I want you forever, Shaw Landon. I love you. Marry me."Typical Rule: he didn't ask, he just told her."Be an Archer. Be mine.” ― Jay Crownover, Rome
“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,” ― Jay Crownover, Rome
“Look I have somewhere I have to be and I don’t particularly love that I have to go, but you freaking out and making a scene is not going to do anything other than piss me off. I hope you had a good time last night and you can leave your number but we both know the chances of me calling you are slim to none. If you don’t want to be treated like crap maybe you should stop going home with drunken dudes you don’t know. Trust me we’re really only after one thing and the next morning all we really want is for you to go quietly away. I have a headache and I feel like I’m going to hurl, plus I have to spend the next hour in a car with someone that will be silently loathing me and joyously plotting my death so really can we just save the histrionics and get a move on it?” ― Jay Crownover, Rule
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Jay Crownover

Jay Crownover is the International and multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men Series, The Saints of Denver Series, The Point and Breaking Point Series, and the Loveless, Texas series. Her books can be found translated in ma…

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