The Player Quotes
"Give him a chance, Scout. He's baseball royalty. Besides, he might not be that bad."
"Distracted? A lift of his brows. A ghost of a smile."
"Try it on someone else, Hot Shot. Your charm isn’t going to work on me."
"Nothing against big sticks, but they’re worthless unless you know how to use them properly."
"Quit staring at me. Quit smiling at me like that. Quit flexing your biceps."
"I touch, Wylder. There are no limitations. I throw my hands and my body into it until I’ve made the pain go away."
"Because of that, I’ll obey... but just this once."
"It’s just pain. I’ve played through it before. I can play through it again."
"My thoughts are too loud in the confines of this truck when all I crave is some peace and quiet."
"I’ve missed Austin—the sights and sounds and beauty that I haven’t really gotten to enjoy as an adult."
"The desire to make a life here is suddenly strong."
"Music is what I need. Music will let me close my eyes, lean my head back, and get lost in the beat."
"There is something so soothing about the narrator’s voice that I snuggle into the seat with a soft smile on my face and just lose myself in the words he speaks."
"We drive in the silence that has seemed to plague us today, and I’m left to wonder why he seems embarrassed when there’s nothing to be embarrassed about."
"Maybe our expectations are spot on, and it’s the men who are unreliable."
"That’s just it. Those books give women unrealistic expectations about what a relationship is supposed to be like."
"You don’t like a feel-good story? Or is it that you don’t believe in true love?"
"I meant that as a compliment, Easton. It’s nice to see someone paying the community back, and in such an important way."
"Every parent holds a different standard for what exactly it is that will achieve that."
"I’m sure the situation you’re in is no different, living up to the legendary Doc Dalton."
"I’ve played on grass my whole life, Scout. There’s no need for me to see what’s out there when it’s green beneath my feet."
"We’re standing with my back to the brick wall of the building and this surprise of a man standing in front of me."
"I never played in the majors, but I won a few collegiate championships."
"I see I’ve been outmaneuvered. You’re a tricky one, turning that back on me."
"I’m about to make it feel a whole lot better. Time to fuck your pretty kitty, Kitty."
"Thanks for the good time. Now let’s get to work."
"A contract is business, Scout. But this? You. Me? This is pleasure."
"You understand there is more to me than just him. For some reason you seem to understand the things no one else does."
"But I’ll be over here chipping away at whatever is preventing you from admitting it, because that night was incredible."
"You can refuse me all you want... But I should warn you, I’m a determined man."
"I’ll wear you down until you figure out there’s no need to be scared of me."
"It's hard to draw in a breath, and yet I know damn well it's not the air that's making me feel that way but rather the look in his eye."
"And just when I feel like I can't catch my breath—when I'm drowning in everything that is Easton Wylder—he tears his mouth from mine."
"Because if I fight, then I don’t have to acknowledge that, though I’m used to shutting everyone out, he might be the first I want to let in."
"But more importantly, as scared as I am to let him in, I’m more scared of walking away."
"And I get it now. What he said the other night about making your own happily ever after."
"Because there are women who are good for a quick fuck. There are women you would fuck, but are better in the friend zone."
"Because I want to take a chance at it in real life."
"There are sparks of hunger on his tongue when it brushes against mine."
"You don’t get to hide behind your sweet fucking kiss. You don’t get to hide your life from me when I keep giving you more of mine."