Jay Crownover

You seem....unsettled." Was "unsettled" another word for horny enough to climb the walls? Because if so, then yes, I was most definitely unsettled.

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.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

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.

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.

Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.

You__e the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.

You know home isn__ really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

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

No matter how the road winds and turns, as long as you are there at the end of it I__l be happy, Rowdy.

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.

You're a dumb shit. There's a million first girls for a million different first things.There's the first girl you slow-dance with, and the first girl you go to bed with. There's the first girl to give you a kiss, and then the first one you take home to mama." His amber eyes lit up with humor."There's the first girl you fight with and the first girl you fight for. There's also the first girl you have to let go of. There's the first girl you love, obviously, and the first girl to break your heart.There's always a first girl, Rowdy, but there is also the girl that is going to come after her until you get to the last girl.The last girl is the one that really matters.

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

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