Hits Different Quotes

“How you talk to kids is how they talk to themselves”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“For you to not die on me. Ever. Because I wouldn’t recover. If you left me. If something happened to you. I’d never get over it.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

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― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“His eyes land on me, and every muscle in my body tightens. “Something fucking glorious.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“He pulls away from me so that I can’t see his face. I’ve never seen him choked up before. Ever. “Did I do something?” When he turns back, his eyes are glistening. What he says swells and breaks my heart at the same time. “You showed up”. *”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“Technically, I walked away from you”. “I want you to hear me when I say this”. Parker presses his face against mine, suddenly very stern. “I’ve made a million mistakes in my life. I’ve made catastrophic fuck-ups into an actual art form. Of all the screw ups I ever made, the worst thing I ever did was not chasing you down three years ago”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“Do you want to know what scares me?” Parker says softly. “You. My feelings for you. This thing between us scares me. In-case you hadn’t noticed, I have a habit of losing things that are important to me”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“And if it all goes wrong? Then we’d be done. We’d have to be, right? You can only jump into the fire so many times before there’s nothing left to burn.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“You’re trouble”, he says, a light in his eye. “That used to be what you liked about me”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“I couldn’t run. Not even if I wanted to”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“My mouth runs dry. This is it. The moment he runs away from me again. Check your watches, folks. “It was a long time ago”, I manage. “I’m over it. Obviously”. “Wow”, he says softly. “Me?” Of course you. It's always you. I nod. “We don’t need to be weird about this”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“And you’d go miles out of your way just to spend time alone with him. You’d skip practice just to go to the mall and help him pick out a present for his girlfriend, because doing something with him that hurt was less painful than doing nothing with him at all. “And without her it felt like you couldn’t breathe properly?”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“I watch as he turns and strolls back towards his cabin. A warm feeling flutters in my stomach. I’ve got my boy back. At least for now, and because of it, my world feels a little more brighter. That’s why I lied when I told him I didn’t remember what happened that night on the beach. What he said to me. Or what I said back.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“Goodnight, Dodger”. “Goodnight, Rocky”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“I always thought there was something pretty cool about going through life with your best friend. Even”, His voice is unrecognisable, “If you can’t have him the way you want to”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“I also possess excellent leadership skills and work well as an individual or as part of a team”. He grins, “All my college essays say so”.”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance

“He was popular. Funny. Cocky. He had a sensitive side too, if you knew where to look”. I blink, transporting myself to the backrow of homeroom. He always sat closest to the window. “I think he found some of the press attention difficult to deal with”. “A sensitive dude-bro with a sense of humour. I can hear the ears of a million Young Adult authors pricking up from here. Did he have a girlfriend?”
― Joel Rustin, Hits Different: An MM Friends to Lovers Sports Romance