Fever Pitch Quotes

“In fact we are your second home, forever, full stop. You need milk money, somewhere to wash your clothes? You come to me. You need clothes? Me. A hug, a smile, a night at the movies--me." He crushed Aaron's face into his neck. "Sometimes we need a place to be completely safe, somewhere boring that isn't about sex or adventure or wild hairs. I am that place for you. As long as you want it, for ten minutes or ten hours or ten thousand years: I am your safe place. No matter what happens, no matter who leaves you or hurts you. I am your safe place.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“When people matter to you, they deserve your time and attention. That’s how you keep from screwing things up.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“I’m so in love with him I can’t even ask him out. I want to lie at his feet, want to smooth out all the wrinkles in his life and make everything okay.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“It’s not going to work. I’m not the kind of guy they move mountains for. I got the message loud and clear.”
Giles stared at him, trying to figure out what to say, except he truly didn’t know how to counter that. He did get what Elijah was talking about. People liked to help pretty people, and Giles and Elijah weren’t pretty.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“When people matter to you, they deserve your time and attention. That’s how you keep from screwing things up. You don’t see what you want and go at it in a fever pitch. You slow down, you make yourself ask the difficult questions and do the hard things, and you make sure it’s real, that you’re not simply hoping it’s authentic because you truly want it to be.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“Baby, honey, hold on. We're almost there."
Aaron blinked. "You're almost where?"
"To Saint Timothy. We're merging onto 94 now. Give us another ten minutes."
"You're coming here?"
"Of course I'm coming there. Kelly too. Where are you? Where should I go to find you?"
The whole world peeled away, strange and hot and off-key. "But you can't come here. You're busy."
"Nothing right now is more important than you.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“I wish you’d stop writing people off before they have a chance to surprise you.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“The life you’re meant to lead is worth fighting for. Worth crying for, even worth bleeding for. When you sing the right song, your life opens before you, and all the pain and sorrow become the bricks you build your castles with.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“We’re dangerous because we know how to survive.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“You can’t carry someone else’s pain. They have to walk through it on their own.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“That was when Giles realized what the friend part of boyfriend was—he wanted to protect Aaron, make everything okay. Not just like he did for Min, but…more.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“We believe in a universe that will bring us another one.” “The thing is, right now I only want this boat.” She cradled his head into her shoulder. “Then right now you’ll have to be a little sad.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“He had to find out if the boy who stole his heart, who lived in that song, was real. He had to do this.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“Aaron could start and end wars with his voice, could move a stone to tears.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“He’d accompanied for those before he’d moved, and he found he missed this, playing for someone. He enjoyed filling in their spaces, being their ground floor.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“Maybe it’s meant to be, and maybe it isn’t, but you need to try. Go in there and be fabulous, whatever the outcome.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch

“The choir didn’t do geek—they were all pretension and cliquishness. They sang in the hallways in perfect harmony, as if their lives were an episode of Glee.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Fever Pitch