Third Degree Quotes

“People are good at hiding the ugly parts of their lives.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“You’re always observing people, but maybe you’re studying the wrong things.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“I didn’t think it was possible to lose IQ points from reading, but I’m positive I just did.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“Real people complicate things. Real people die. Real people can be killed by other people.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“As I’m heading back to the ER, my hands shaking from both nerves and anticipation, it occurs to me how much I’m aching to hear his voice again. To brush my thumbs across his cheek and feel the sexy stubble that always seems to be there. I’m dying to tell him about the man with no one to call and make sure he knows that no matter what, when he’s forty and injured in the ER, he can call me. He can always call me.
Is this what love is?”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“Arms are around me, hands in my hair, lips moving across my cheek, over my neck, and I’m thinking about poetry, about Edgar Allan Poe and words that move like waves, people who move like waves together, and all the non-words we can make with our bodies.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree

“I drag a finger over his chest and down his stomach, tracing the red, circular scar that, for three months of his life, was an opening that attached to a colostomy bag, an object that seemed to rob Marshall of his ability to be, well, Marshall—someone who lives for activity and vibrant levels of energy. He’s got all that back now and is fully recovered.”
― Julie Cross, Third Degree