Dropping the Ball Quotes

“If that’s how forever starts, then I’m glad it never ends.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“That’s how Madison’s friends are. When she and I started working on our relationship, they scooped me up like I’d been there all along.” She nestles against me. “It really means something. To be chosen.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“She’s enough,” I say, studying the relaxed curve of her shoulder. “In that moment. Probably in all her moments. But you can only rest like that and belong to everything around you if you know you’re enough.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“She’s very still, which is very Kaitlyn. She’s not a fidgeter, not a perpetual tornado like Madison, who whirls through a space. Kaitlyn, no matter what speed she’s moving, or even now when she’s motionless, is a soft breeze. No one ever gets tired of a soft breeze.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“The mood of those few minutes still clings to me like the finest spun silk, and I want to gather it around me and revel in it. I can’t do that right now. Everything coming at me is feelings, and I need time to sift through them.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“He stares at me for a couple of seconds. “All right. What is your thing?”
You, I almost say. Ummm . . . That thought jumped way too easily out of nowhere.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“We leave here as experts in nothing, but that won’t matter if we stay students of everything.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball