The Quarterback (The Team, #2)

by Tal Bauer

Sometimes a year changed a man in ways that couldn’t be measured in hours and days and weeks. Sometimes a year became the cornerstone of a life.

What was better? Suffering in silence and hardening your heart against the world? Or owning what you wanted, what you needed?

You could sell Jesus to the pope.”

Your hearts didn’t beat together. That’s the hardest damn thing about growing with someone: you gotta make sure you keep your hearts beating together and that you really know each other. It’s too damn easy to go spinning off on your own and leave each other behind.”

“The only spark I ended up wanting to find was a lighter to burn the whole marriage down.”

He’d thought, This is the beginning, but no. It was the end. There’s always an end.

“Love happens, whether you want it to or not.”