Jay Crownover Quotes & Sayings

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

No matter how the road winds and turns, as long as you are there at the end of it I'll be happy, Rowdy. — Jay Crownover

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

Don't be scared, Captain No-Fun, we got this. — 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

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 understand what you meant about those closest to you hurting you the most now. I'll be in touch. — Jay Crownover

I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it. — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

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 — Jay Crownover

Opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down1 — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

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. — 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

Sometimes all people can see is what's different, but those differences are what make us who we are. — Jay Crownover

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 ... — Jay Crownover

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 — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

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

If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison. — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

What did the lawyer say?" I couldn't stop the little snicker that slipped out as I sat back up in the seat and laced my fingers behind my head.
"Before or after I kissed her?"
"Zeb!" My mom gave me a hard look and my sister just shook her head. — Jay Crownover

Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it. — Jay Crownover

You were right, you are perfect for me because I'm just as imperfect as you are, but with you, it's all just flawless. — Jay Crownover

Have you told him that you're in love with him and have been for eternity? — Jay Crownover

You have me Shaw, any way you need me, any way you want me, you have me. — Jay Crownover

You kiss better than most men fuck." Her — Jay Crownover

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. — 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

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

That's what we did. We saved each other. He forced me to see that living in fear got me nowhere and that holding out for some unobtainable ideal of perfection was just silly. I made him realize that whoever he wanted to be and whatever he chose to do was enough. He didn't have to be anything more. He wasn't perfect, I wasn't perfect, but the love we had for each other . . . nothing was more perfect than that. — Jay Crownover

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

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. — 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

We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together. — Jay Crownover

Just don't. Don't tell me whatever reason you managed to cook up after last night, because whatever it is, we both know the real reason, the real problem is that you won't even entertain the idea of letting me in. That's just fucked up because I could have fallen in love with you. Hell, I probably already did. I have shit to take care of, so I guess I'll see you around. — Jay Crownover

I should've appreciated the wonderful child I had, not tried to make you into something else. — 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

Honestly, man, it's whatever she wants. She wants a ring, I'll by her one the size of her head. She wants a kid, I'll take her to bed every night until she has one, and I won't complain about it at all. If she wants to keep things the way they are now, until the end of time, then I'm cool with that, too. All that matters is that it's her and me at the end of the day. — Jay Crownover

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 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. — 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

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. — Jay Crownover

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

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. — Jay Crownover

We are all sinners in some way or another. — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

That's insanity. No other girl is going to come along and distract him. He is absolutely focused on you. We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit. If he is telling you he wants you, then no one else is going to do. If you can't believe what he's telling you because of whatever your ordeal in the past is, pay attention to what he's showing you. Actions always speak louder than words. — Jay Crownover

Let's hope we both make it out alive, — 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

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. — Jay Crownover

Easy is very forgettable, my friend, complicated and difficult stays with you forever. Believe me, I married it. — Jay Crownover

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 — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

Hard to watch where we're going when our eyes are on each other and not on the path we're taking. — Jay Crownover

The knuckles of his hand that had Shaw's name inked across them caught my eye. I pointed to them.
"You have her with you forever already, a ring isn't going to make that much of a difference, bro."
"I need to wait until she's done with school next semester. She needs to graduate and focus on starting med school. I don't want her worrying about me or a wedding while she does it. Honestly, talking to Lando made me start thinking about it. God, forbid something happened to me or to her. I want everyone on the planet to know how much she means to me. How she changed my life and made me want to be a better man for her and her alone. — Jay Crownover

We love you, dude, but I swear to God, if you put me in a position where I have to pick between you and Shaw, she is going to win every single time, hands down. Know it. — Jay Crownover

You can't deny that there is something there between us when we get close to one another that is completely unprofessional. I want your help, Sayer, but I want you, too. — Jay Crownover

After everything the past has tried to bury us under, we owe it to ourselves to be brave, to do more than float. — Jay Crownover

I don't need luck. I have you. — Jay Crownover

there was no way that weapon of mass destruction was going to work its way inside my body. — Jay Crownover

I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her. — Jay Crownover

Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you. — Jay Crownover

You know home isn't 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. — 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

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 — Jay Crownover

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

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. — Jay Crownover

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, — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

How can things begin if you're already planning the ending? — Jay Crownover

I was the one who jumped; he was the one that stayed warm and dry. — Jay Crownover

I got used to everyone needing me, to them relying on me, and now that I wasn't needed anymore I simply just didn't know what to do with myself. — Jay Crownover

I'm not saying it couldn't eventually lead to more, but right now I feel pretty broken and I'm not really sure there are enough pieces lying around to put me back together. — 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

What if I ask you to give me everything, Shaw? What if I want it all? Won't that make me just like all the rest of them?"
She made a noise in her throat and then broke into a smile that nearly killed me on the spot. She was just so lovely and pure. "No, because you don't have to ask for anything. All of it is already yours. You're the only one I've ever wanted to give it to. — Jay Crownover

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 . — Jay Crownover

Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it. — Jay Crownover

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. — 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

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

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

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

No. She's perfect. She doesn't fuss, doesn't nag, she trusts me absolutely no matter how dumb I act, and she never, ever holds the past against me. Which, come on, it would be really easy for her to do. On top of it, she's mind-blowing in bed and I can't keep my hands off of her. She's too good to be true, so why would she want to spend the rest of her life with me? — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

I probably have never done it right, but I have always loved you, Keelyn Foster. — Jay Crownover

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

Everything. He is just everything I want ...
I don't think he's everything you want; I think he's everything you need. — Jay Crownover

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

I see death and tragedy all the time and nothing makes it worse than when it's totally senseless. All she needed was some niceness, some basic human kindness, and she wouldn't be on her way to the morgue and her parents wouldn't be devastated. It's heartbreaking and so senseless. — Jay Crownover

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. — Jay Crownover

We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit. — Jay Crownover

We just made so much sense together even if we made no sense at all — Jay Crownover

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