“It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.
My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Our scars don't point us in the direction were headed, Cass, they simply remind us of where we've been”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“You're both so screwed up alone that together you're like the perfect mess.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard. Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder. I know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Watching the two of you interact, it was like watching fireworks light up the night sky. You two burn brighter when you're together.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person’s entire day with just a few measly sentences?”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“We're all scarred. That's how we know we've lived a life worth fighting for. Love is a battlefield! Thank you, Pat Benatar!”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Kitten,
Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard.
Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder. I
know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.
I'ts not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.
My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you don't want it anymore. I'm just asking for the chance to have yours again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.
Love Always,
Jack”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I was one hundred percent not in control of this situation. This girl fucking owned me right now. I sat on that bed waiting for her to give me the time of day. I didn't necessarily like this feeling, but I suffered through it... for her. I convinced myself that I'd probably suffer through pretty much anything for this girl.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“No relationship can survive without trust, honesty, and communication, no matter how close you are.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Cassie's Rules for a Happy Life:
#1 - Don't Lie
#2 - Don't Cheat
#3 - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
#4 - Don't Say Things You Don't Mean”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“My head questions everything and believes nothing."
"So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance?”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“This doesn't change anything," I stammered, my defenses fading.
"It changes everything." He sounded so sure of himself as his soft lips silenced my weak protest.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I know that. But here's the thing about baseball, Kitten. There's an expiration date for every single one of us who plays and we all know it. Eventually my baseball career will come to an end, and I can live with that. But I can't live without you.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Because once you give your body to a guy, there's no taking it back. And once you've done that it opens up feelings, emotions and vulnerabilities you never knew you were capable of having. I'm not ready to give him my heart. What if he breaks it?”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I am so fucking in love with you I can't see straight. I don't love her. I'll never love her. But I fucked up and now I have to pay for it. I'll never forgive myself for hurting you," he said. "Or losing you.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I looked into his eyes and then down at his mouth before continuing. “Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person’s entire day with just a few measly sentences?”My slight smile dropped. “But when you don’t follow them up with any action, they’re completely pointless. They’re just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing.” My gaze glossed over as my mind wandered.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Oh my God, you feel incredible." He breathed heavily against my ear. "Holy shit, I may never recover from this.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“And I know that the past version of me is someone you would never trust. But who I am when I’m with you” he paused, “isn’t who I used to be. I don’t think I’ve been that guy since the night of our first date, so it’s not fair that you judge me like I’m still him.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“I don't know how to get over you”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Kitten, I’d break my fucking pitching arm if it meant keeping you safe.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“Jack: I’m going to kiss you.
Cassie: This doesn’t change anything
Jack: It changes everything.
Cassie: Prove it.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
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“We burn because of the beauty in the burning, because life is precious, extraordinary, and we would live as if we were on fire with the brightness of it.”
― Kate Griffin, quote from The Midnight Mayor
“—Dicen —explicó el boyardo de Vladímir— que Alejandro ha dejado instrucciones a su familia para que le den Moscú cuando sea mayor. —¡Moscú! ¡Esa ciudad miserable! —No es gran cosa —convino el otro—, aunque no está mal situada.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, quote from Russka: the Novel of Russia
“Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from Scoop
“All man's honors are small beside the greatest prize to which he may and must aspire--the finding of his soul, his spirit, his divine strength and worth--the knowledge that he can and must live in freedom and dignity--the final realization that life is not a daily dying, not a pointless end, not ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust, but a soaring and blinding gift snatched from eternity.”
― Irving Wallace, quote from The Man
“The Puffer Fish: Wherein the author flaunts his vocabulary.
His father was IRA and his mother was Quebecois, and they had reliquished their mortal coils in the internecine conflagration that ended their conjoined separatist movement, IRA-Q. The appellation he was given by his progenitors was Ray O'Vaque ("Like the battery," he'd elucidate, with an adamantine stare that proscribed any mirth). In his years of incarceration, however, he had earned the sobriquet "Uncle Milty" for his piscine amatory habits.
He had been emancipated from the penitentiary for three weeks, and now his restless peregrinations had conveyed him to this liminal place, seeking compurgation in the permafrost of the hyperborean tundra, which was an apt analogue of the permafrost in his heart. He insinuated himself into the caravansary with nugatory expectations, which were confirmed by the exiguous provisions for comfort. But then the bartender looked up from laving the begrimed bar, his eyes growing luminous as he ejactulated, "Milt!”
― Howard Mittelmark, quote from How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
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