Jay Crownover Quotes

You've never wanted to be easy to love Rule and you make damn sure that nobody can ever forget it. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Say thank you with words, not hugs. -- Bax to Brysen ~ Jay Crownover

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 ~ Jay Crownover

You want to go down in flames, I guess that's your call, but I'm not going to watch you burn. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Love doesn't always have to be spoken out loud. ~ Jay Crownover

It seems that what we've overcome is what ultimately molded us into the people that we are instead of where we've come from. ~ Jay Crownover

When you find someone, someone who gets you, who understand you, it's worth fighting for. The last thing you want to do is be five years down the road and look back and wonder what could have happened. Trust me, that kind of regret that kind of what-if, can gnaw on your soul until there is nothing left. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Cora,come on now. You can find a guy in, like, a second flat. Half the guys in the band have you on their laminated list."
She rolled her expressive eyes at me. "I want something real, Jet. Something that is life changing and dramatic, something that makes me forget anyone else ever existed. I just can't see that happening and it makes me sad."
"I think you're maybe reaching for something that doesn't exist. ~ Jay Crownover

I couldn't see a place in my life or in my bed for anyone but her now, and that she made me feel that every love song I had ever written or sung made no sense until she came into the picture.
… I was going to hold on to her for as long as I could, until the fire got too hot and burned me alive from the inside out, and she would have no choice but to watch it smolder. ~ Jay Crownover

It's like being in love with a loaded weapon and you're the safety. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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? ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

The capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning - Mahatma Gandhi ~ Jay Crownover

There was nothing quite like being put in the friend zone by your pregnant girlfriend. ~ Jay Crownover

Look at me being all optimistic and shit.
Remy would be so proud. ~ Jay Crownover

This, Cora ... this is as perfect as two people can be ~ Jay Crownover

There is no going back but there is accepting your new normal. ~ Jay Crownover

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? ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun ~ Jay Crownover

I can't live my life waiting for it not to hurt before I start existing again. ~ Jay Crownover

I grabed one of his hands that was hanging loosely at his side.I took a little bit of work to pry the fat silver ring off his finger, but when I had it free I held it up between the two of us and looked him dead in the eye. He was watching me caustiously, but didn't ask me what I was doing. Do you love me Jet? Dispite it all. Do you love me? Aden I'm here of course I love you. I love you before, I love you after, and I'll love you for everything in between. Had we not been in a grungy motel room in Kentucky,there was a good chance I would have gotten down on one kneeto make the moment more dramatic, to prove to him just how serious I was about not running away anymore but a girl had to have standards. I grad his left hand and put a kiss in his left palm. Jet Keller I love you and there is no future for me without you in it. I'm never going to bed with a man that isn't you again. I don't care if you're a rock star or a a car salesman.I just want there to be a you and me forever. Will you marry me? ~ Jay Crownover

It felt like he was trying to make it so I would never be able to kiss anyone else in my life without having to compare it to this moment. ~ Jay Crownover

You found your family tree, Rowdy, and the branches are stronger and sturdier than most people with blood relatives have. ~ Jay Crownover

My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map. ~ Jay Crownover

Trying to love yourself, to know your own value and worth, is something I think a lot of young girls struggle with and that can definitely flow into adulthood. We all have things that set us apart, make us special, make us who we are, and I would love to see those things celebrated and enjoyed across the board. Let that freak flag fly! (Or whatever equivalent you have.) ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

She just fit, she filled every hole I had in my life ... ~ Jay Crownover

Love doesn't go away because the person it's attached to has changed. It simply changes with them. ~ Jay Crownover

I made a noise in my throat and tried to remember why I thought I'd missed her the last couple of days. ~ Jay Crownover

What did you call me?"

"Captain No-Fun. ~ Jay Crownover

Do you love me, Jet? Despite it all, do you love me?"
"Ayden, I'm here. Of course I love you. I loved you before, I love you after, and Ill love you for everything in-between. ~ Jay Crownover

I always thought it was the firsts that matter, but now I know that it's the lasts that stay with you. ~ Jay Crownover

Good people usually have a reason for doing bad things. ~ Jay Crownover

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

Grief is a hard mistress to have, Rome. She eventually wants all you have to give her. ~ Jay Crownover

You think the queen of the castle is going to let me in the ivory tower? ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Hallelujah! It's about time you two idiots figured out that you were made for each other. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

I don't have much ... but I want to give all to you. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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 ~ Jay Crownover

I think I wanted it too much and you didn't want it enough. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

At the end of the day little girl we're all each other has, so no matter how tough it gets for any of us we just have to power through and keep it together. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Come on Shaw, just a little kiss. It's my birthday and I missed you so bad. ~ Jay Crownover

Real men don't take Baths! ~ Jay Crownover

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

I know you would have, but you're here now when I need you the most, and that's all that really matters to me. If you still want my forever, it's yours, Jet. No one else has ever come close and you're the only one I have ever wanted to offer it to. ~ Jay Crownover

Next time you could just pee in a circle around me so that they know you've already been there. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

That shit only works out in movies, Langley. Real life doesn't happen like that. Real life is about your job, and how you provide for yourself and your family. And you know what? Real life doesn't give a shit about love. We're on our own for that. ~ Jay Crownover

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

A guy has needs, but so does a girl. She just needs the right person to make her hot enough to ask for them to be met. ~ Jay Crownover

When the right one comes along, Jet, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you. I would be half the man I am without Shaw. She makes me better, she makes me happy, and I can see that Ayden does that for you, too."
Rule-Jet A Marked Men Novel ~ Jay Crownover

You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

Shaw, what if I did love you? ~ 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. ~ Jay Crownover

Saint, hurting is how you know it's real. If he didn't matter, if he was just some guy, even back then it wouldn't have lasted with you the way it has. You can't run from feeling things, even if some of those things are awful, because love opens you up to experiencing emotions you haven't ever felt before. ~ Jay Crownover

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

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. ~ Jay Crownover

So Nash and I went out and there were redheads and there were brunettes and there was even a super-hot chick that looked kinda like Pink but you think any of them did it for me? No, Shaw not one because they weren't fucking you and ever since you walked out on Sunday all I've been thinking of is you. Now why is that? ~ Jay Crownover

There was no good without the bad, no joy without sorrow, no peace without war, and there definitely couldn't be love without the sour taste of hate. You had to know what one felt like to fully experience and appreciate the other. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

I don't think it's where you go that matters, I think it's where you end up. ~ Jay Crownover

I didn't know what I was doing, didn't know what he was doing to me, but there was no doubt he made my day better by simply being. ~ Jay Crownover

She was upset about something and all I wanted to do was get her naked and play connect the dots. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

I've been fighting every single day of my life. Sometimes I think all I have left is fight. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

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

Let's hope we both make it out alive, ~ Jay Crownover

I don't know what the exact answer is, Bax, but I do know you made the choice to be ab ad guy and you can make the choice not to be. ~ Jay Crownover

Um, I'm just going to go tell Zeb hi really fast." Somehow saying hi had never sounded so much like "strip naked and fuck on the bar. ~ Jay Crownover

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

Guys Rule's girl is here and she's like an actual girl with an actual brain. un-freaking-believable. ~ Jay Crownover

Bad things happened, it was how we navigated the fallout afterward that really defined what our new normal would be. ~ Jay Crownover

Give me a chance, Half-Pint, I'm all in. ~ Jay Crownover

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down. ~ Jay Crownover

Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Jay Crownover

And that's how it was. We walked the same way, no more running, no more fear, no more secrets. Just me and her, in sync and together, even though we came from two separate sides of the spectrum. I was her perfect future and she was my perfect love and that was how every good love song should end.
So it ends ... at least for now. ~ Jay Crownover

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. ~ Jay Crownover

I'd kissed plenty of boys in my time but never one that made my head spin to the point that it made me forget where I was. ~ Jay Crownover

In my experience as long as he treats you right and appreciates you then no man is the wrong kind of man. ~ Jay Crownover

This is what I have to offer you Shaw and just like you let me be your first, I'm letting you be mine. ~ Jay Crownover