Candidate Quotes

“It's sort of like books. Yeah, you know how you read certain books and at the last page you're filled with the story and you sort of don't want to leave the characters?”
― Tracy Ewens, Reserved

“You are every woman you've ever taken on a great date and every silly joke you played on your brothers. You are the only man who dances our raw turkey around the kitchen on Thanksgiving. You are my sweet boy, my big guy, and the handsome man I am proud of every day. None of us are only our outside, Cade. Boy, things would be easier if we knew what we were getting from the cover, right?”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“Have you missed me?" Sistine asked.
"Not really. I miss who we used to be sometimes. You?”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“Finish one sentence for me. When I'm with Sistine, she...”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“Sistine never understood why women didn't unite. Why some spent time tearing others down all in the name of male attention. If women spent less time in some invisible competition, they could run the world.”
― Tracy Ewens, Tap

“That’s the rumor,”
― Tracy Ewens, Smooth

“Their story was nothing like a romantic movie despite the epic crowd scene. Theirs was a tale of clumsy beginnings, quick getaways, and right when she thought a scary ending was inevitable, he’d managed to swoop in and let her save him. They were all the genres rolled into one.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“he watched as the crowd walked around the heart. It was no longer in a box. Towner would be proud as that metaphor struck him square in the chest.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Actors are resourceful,” he’d instructed. “They hone their craft until they can take any situation and turn it away from themselves and back to the story. They are sorcerers in disguise.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“With one glance, he knew neither of them could live without the other. They were pieces of a story that only worked if they were together.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“She’d faced her fears and come out on the other side. A little damaged, true, but better and stronger for the experience.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“It’s a trust thing and it builds my confidence. My instructor has faith in me to save us both. I’m given that opportunity and I’m stronger as a result. Kind of beautiful, isn’t it?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“My instructor has faith in me to save us both. I’m given that opportunity and I’m stronger as a result. Kind of beautiful, isn’t it?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Meg considered her three big sisters, three different women united in a childhood of memories and the adult lives they’d fumbled through. She had spent her life trying to outrun and outperform each of their shadows, but she’d grown up on her adventures and returned home with clear vision.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“We are responsible for our own actions.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves,”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“West was physically on set by nine o’clock Monday morning, but his heart was in San Francisco. He was beginning to think it was some cruel joke that he lived in the Tony Bennett Suite.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“The heart wants what the heart wants.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“But oh, the irony of meeting about green initiatives over tiny disposable water bottles.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“The fog, which Meg knew from her father wasn’t fog at all, but low-lying clouds, began to burn off as the morning sun continued its climb through a blue-gray sky. The Golden Gate Bridge came into focus right before her eyes through a cloud that caressed the crimson metal into view.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“She was the baby and the sister most likely being lectured when their mother assessed all four of them and scrunched her face. “Meg, honestly, did you even try brushing that rat’s nest?”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“Did you say naughty?” she asked. “Yes. They read steamy romance and then meet over drinks to discuss.” “Are you kidding me? Our mom?” “Let’s say she and her lady friends have an extensive knowledge of firefighters and all of their… equipment.” Anna chuckled. “Wow. That is a surprisingly clear visual, so thank you for that.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“It occurred to Meg that there were probably a lot of her mother’s friends she’d never met. “Naughty Book Club. They’ve known each other for a few years.”
― Tracy Ewens, Exposure

“People could change their minds any time they chose to.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“You have knowledge. You know what it is to be a crazy badass. There’s strength in that, the kind of courage that creates success, good or bad.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“Courage is tough stuff. It’s not a commercial or one of those football movies. It’s sweaty palms, Trey. Shaking and about to puke. Courage is ugly and so hard to find when you need it.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“Have you ever played a sport?” Dane asked, attention still on the field. He knew she was there? That startled her a little, and Anna wondered if she’d be perpetually uncomfortable in the presence of Dane Sivac, not that she would let that show. “I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises,” flew off her lips before she had a chance to stop herself.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“there’s a lot of pressure this year with the team. I don’t have the luxury of fairies and whatever other crap is in your precious plays. I have a job to do, a real one in the real world.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“Okay, well, this has been enlightening and insulting, so thank you for both.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook

“Thanks. I was looking for”—he pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket—“Ms. Jeffries. She teaches Shakespeare, poor woman. Do you know where I can find her?” Cynda pointed to Anna right as she stood to leave. “Oh, sorry. I didn’t realize.”
― Tracy Ewens, Playbook