Long Shot (Hoops, #1)

by Kennedy Ryan

“Even when you think you’re

defeated, dig deeper. Go harder. Press, because there is something worth it on the other side.”

Hope is the gap between what if and what is, but you have to fill that gap with a lot of hard work.

“If you were mine, Iris, there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”

“Struggle does not make you weak,” she whispers back. “Struggling against those who hold us is what makes us, over time, stronger than they are. Strong enough to fight back. Strong enough to win.”