The Hot Shot Quotes

“Finn, what am I going to do with you?” His smile is an easy glide, but his eyes hold mine a beat too long. “Keep me. I’m pretty sure I’m good for no one else.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“I said I wouldn’t push you, and I meant it. But one day, Chess, you’re going to feel safe enough to let go. And I’m going to be there to catch you when you fall.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Tell me again that I'm a bad bet. Because I can't wait to prove you wrong.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“She makes me grateful for every sunrise. Because I wake up knowing she's in the world.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“His expression turns tender. “I fucking adore you.”
God, my heart. I can’t take it. I trace the curve of his eyebrow. “You’ve grown on me too, Mannus.”
“I’m like fungus that way,” he agrees happily.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Finn is my happy. But he can’t be the only source. I’ll drown that way.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Hey, Chess, I know I’ve never dated a woman, but the thought of you leaving fills me with fucking dread. Because I don’t want to be your friend anymore. I just want to be yours.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Finn... You don't fight fair."

"I never will when it comes to you, Chess. You're my girl, and I'm your guy. Fate knows it and I know it. Now get with the program.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“So we’re going to…What? Be friends?” He looks almost boyish then. “Yeah. We are.” His eyes spark. “Fair warning. I’ll still be picturing you naked half of the time. So get used to a bit of leering.” “You just had to go and ruin the moment, didn’t you?” “Probably should get used to that, too.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Too bad. The House of Mannus also has an anti-moping law in effect. Violators are subject to noogies and loss of TV time for one day.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Love with your heart, not your head. Think about things too much and it all turns to shit.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“So,” James asks in a sing-song voice. “What’s manly Manny’s place like? Does he have a Red Room of Pain?”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Who is harassing you? Is it that diva Maria? Tell her the camera can perform certain illusions, but it can’t wash the bitch out of her hair.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“I want to tell her things. Important, emotional things that I’ve never said to anyone else.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“I don’t want to be your friend anymore. I just want to be yours.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“So…” My mom says in a voice that is distinctly meddling. “Chess is nice.”
A smile pulls at my lips. “Nice isn’t how I’d describe her.”
“Oh? And how would you describe her?” …
Perfect. Fuckable. Stunning. Funny. Mine.
Mine.
Mine.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“It’s not going to go away for me.” My arm slides from him as I look up.
“What isn’t?” Finn’s expression is solemn, but when he catches my eye, the corner of his lip quirks.
“Wanting you.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“I’m so gone on you. There’s no coming back from it.” I kiss those candy lips. “Haven’t you figured it out?” I say against them. “Every time I call you Chester, I’m saying I adore you. I fucking adore every part of you.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“The second I touch him, I know it’s a mistake…In that instant, I know him. I know him. I feel like I’ve known him my whole existence, like I’ve been waiting for him to return from wherever he’s been.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Are you going to get in this bed?”
I stand a bit straighter and huff out a breath. “That’s all you have to say?”
His lips part as if he’ll speak but then he closes his mouth before opening it again. “In the spirit of friendship, I feel I should point out that your nightshirt is transparent when backed by the bathroom light.”
I jump out of the bathroom doorway, flicking off the light as I go.
With a glare, I hustle my ass into the bed, sliding under the cool covers as he laughs low in his belly.
“Asshole.” I pull the comforter up to my chest. “You could have told me sooner.”
“The struggle was real.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“What must that be like? To spend an entire lifetime with someone, and the threads of who you are have become so interwoven, you can't part without unraveling”
― kristen callihan, The Hot Shot

“I’d never experienced that level of trust before, that willingness to try anything, knowing that the giving and receiving of pleasure would be tenfold because you were with the person you wanted above all things.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“You’re not going to fail, because you’ll never give up. That’s the only failure in life”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“I don’t like the idea of you hurting. Especially if it’s for me.” “Not something you get a say over,” I tell him.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Let me say this. I know my worth. I know that who I am is the sum of all of me, not the parts that aren’t perfect.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“Attraction is instant, for the most part. Whether it burns and grows or flickers out and dies after you talk to someone is the key.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“The concept of beauty changes with a camera. Some ordinary people come alive behind the lens. Something about the way the light hits them, and suddenly they are utterly beautiful. Haggard, craggy lines can be wondrous. Utterly breathtaking faces can fall oddly flat.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot

“There’s an old saying: the camera never lies. Photographers know this isn’t true. The camera—and by extension, a photo—lies all the time. We make it lie through manipulation. What looks one way in real life can appear completely different in a photo. Light and dark, negative space and angles…so many things come into play.”
― Kristen Callihan, The Hot Shot