Home Run Heart Quotes

“It feels like leaping into the frigid ocean all over again: a little bit crazy, but oddly refreshing at the same time.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“To braid the threads of our lives together into one unbreakable knot.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You’ve got this. No stress. Enjoy it.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“The thick, greenhouse glass starts cracking around the tiny seed I’ve been nurturing.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“The way his eyes rove over me undoes another knot in my stomach.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You’d kiss me at a game?” Nora says with a tilted smile. “In front of all those people?” “I’d kiss you anywhere.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“His reaction is a thing of beauty.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“I’ve got to wait until the right moment, even if it kills me.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You’d better keep your voice down!” He lifts a hand and drags his thumb across my cheekbone and down my jawline. I swear I forget how to breathe as he says, “I’ll be whatever you need me to be, Nora.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Five minutes?” I counter, placing a hand on my hip. “You sure that’s all you want?”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Even as a young girl caught up in the fire of her first love, that’s how he always made me feel.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“I think those moments where you allow yourself to really process your grief are necessary. They’re so painful, but that’s what you need sometimes, you know? You have to let yourself grieve the full weight of what you’ve lost.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You work so hard to take care of Ollie and everybody around you, so tonight, I want to take care of you.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Her gesture makes me wonder if some small part of her always hoped that we’d somehow find our way back to each other.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Whatever he’s got on smells expensive—like it’s made from the tears of mermaids in the Mediterranean.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Holding her hand is like slipping on my favorite worn baseball glove. Warm and familiar.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Brooks showed up for me tonight, too, and he’s got no idea how much that means to me.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“I wonder if he remembers the heart-melting effect his smiles used to have on me.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“He shoots me a charming half-grin, lodging more arrows into my already punctured heart.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“People who struggle with perfectionism are often fueled by fear. Fear of letting others down. Fear of making mistakes. Fear of not being enough.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You gave her your hat? In public?” Caroline says. “I like it. Staking your claim.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“It’s like muscle memory. I know how to do this. We know how to do this.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“I haven’t flirted in a long, long time. I’m Tow Mater level rusty.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“He’s inhuman when the pressure’s on.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“Careful, Bell,” I say. “Don’t wanna split your pants before the game.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You might just throw Brooks off his game tonight looking as good as you do.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“The entire family is conspiring against me. This is mutiny.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“If he really is interested,” Trent finally says, “then he won’t mind that he had to wait for you.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“There have only been two things I can say I have truly loved in my life: baseball and Nora Foster.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart

“You’re the only one in this place he’s kissed.”
― Hailey Gardiner, Home Run Heart