The Player Quotes

“Life is short. We’re only here to chase moments. I’d rather make those moments worthwhile.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“His mouth felt like everything I envisioned heaven and hell must feel like: warm and welcoming, hot and seductive.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“for now, we’re just chasing moments together. After all, isn’t that what life is about?”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“Love is easy to rekindle, but once you lose trust . . . it’s hard to go back to the way things used to be.”

“The Player.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“If you're at the other end of the chase, it would be impossible for me to be disappointed.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“I wish I could turn back time and make better choices, but the only thing I can do is be here in this moment.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“That’s what family does, isn’t it? We put up with things from each other that we’d never take from anybody else. Even after being dragged through the mud and stomped on a few times somehow we still find it in us to forgive one another.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“You love me. That's why this hurts so much.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“She wasn’t the kind of woman you fucked and left. She was the kind of woman that made you want to stay and confront life’s chaos with.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“I don’t want to want you this much,” I whispered when our lips broke apart again.
His eyes searched mine, his gaze softening. “But you do.”
“But I do.”
“And you can’t will the feeling away?”
I shook my head, looking at him as if he was going to give me some kid of antidote for this. Whatever this was.
“Neither can I,” he said, placing his forehead against mine. “Neither can I.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“This isn't my life. You are.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“I'd give up my career to chase moments with the right woman.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“The way I see it, when it comes to forgiveness, we only have two choices. We could stay here moping and thinking about how much better a person we are while they keep living their lives, or we can prove that we’re the better person by letting go.” I shrugged. “Life is short. We’re only here to chase moments. I’d rather make those moments worthwhile.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“The ironic thing about his admission was that all this time I’d been saying we had nothing in common and what we did have was the one thing I wouldn’t wish on anybody. But it was the key to making me open up more, which I seldom did, and that was a mistake I worked on trying to correct. We carried our stories so tight that we become suffocated with them, and more often than not, the person right beside us is suffering in the same silence we are.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“The way I see it, when it comes to forgiveness, we only have two choices. We could stay here moping and thinking about how much better a person we are while they keep living their lives, or we can prove that we’re the better person by letting go.” I shrugged. “Life is short. We’re only here to chase moments. I’d rather make those moments worthwhile.” “So you choose to let go?” “I choose to keep living.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“bloody”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“I could kiss her. I could kiss her right now, but what good would that be when I knew it would have to end quickly? I wanted hours with her. Sunrises and sunsets buried between her legs.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player

“He was untamed perfection.”
― Claire Contreras, The Player