Charged Quotes

“My girl always jumped. It was one of the things I now realized I loved most about her.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Right now, I needed to be the man I tried so hard not to be in order to be someone worthy of the girl I was trying to save. I”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Like recognized like. And while we had both been lost and floundering on our own, when we were together it felt like we were exactly where we were supposed to be.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“I was the one who jumped; he was the one that stayed warm and dry.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“The trick is staying found, I think. It’s easy to get lost when your life is constantly in a state of disarray. The right path gets obscured as quickly as you make it.”
He put a hand on my shoulder and told me solemnly, “That’s why you find something or someone that guides you, someone that won’t lose you, and someone that you don’t mind getting lost with when that inevitably happens.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“I guess at the end of the day it’s better to have nothing with the right person than to have everything with the wrong person, isn’t it?"

She was absolutely right about that.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“All I could do was forlornly watch as he put what I was starting to consider his lawyer costume back on, while I sat on the edge of his bed wearing nothing but his ARMY T-shirt and some seriously tousled-sex hair.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Bad decisions did lead to great stories and, in my case, great love. I’d make every single crappy choice and foolish error again if it meant I would end up exactly where I was right now. Every mistake was a piece of me, a part of my story, and without each of them there was no way I would be starting my own happy-ever-after in his perfect, stormy, blue-gray eyes.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Saying sorry wasn’t enough; this time around, I was actually going to have to change. I”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Memories”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Giving the man that has been there for you, that has shown up time and time again, the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he wants is far braver than tying yourself to all those losers that have been dragging you down for years.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“He cheated before me and then he cheated to be with me so why wouldn’t he cheat on me?”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“So go out there and screw up. Have experiences so that you have stories to tell, and do it without an apology. Memories and mistakes are both beautiful and important in their own ways.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged