Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)

by Karla Sorensen

Don't be so consumed with what you're missing that you stop paying attention to what's in front of you.

What he said next were words I'd replay a thousand times over the next few months, when I had no idea how true they were. In a rough voice that pulled goosebumps up along my arm, he said, "I'm the man who's about to give you an education, love."

"I swear, you girls have an athlete radar, and it's going to be the death of me. Couldn't one of you end up with a lawyer or a teacher or a dog trainer or something?"

"I worry about you four every single day as it is, and not because I don't trust you. It's part of the deal when you love someone so much that you'd die for them. The worst thing you can imagine is them hurting and you can't do anything about it."

"Be careful that you don't anchor your thoughts so firmly on the past that it's hard for you to deal with your future, especially if part of that future is unclear."

"I think what makes the great great is something inside them. Even when their body betrays them, it's still there."

I hope you're not shaming my wife for what she does for a living or Lia for being proud of her for it because she's teaching an entire generation of girls that you can be beautiful and smart and sexy and respected, and none of those things cancel the other out.

"When you meet the most important person in your life, and your soul can go, Oh, yes, you're the one I've been waiting for."

Sometimes, you proved your worth by showing what you were willing to give up.

"I'm in love with her," I told him. "And I'll do my best to prove that, even if I have to wait."

It was amazing, I thought, where you could end up when life gave you something you didn't choose for yourself. Maybe that was how it was supposed to work. We could make all the plans we wanted, but ultimately, the exact right path for us was the one we'd end up on.