The Red Zone Quotes

“I was tearing down walls and feeling damn good about it. I had a feeling I was pretty close to getting a kiss, too. I’d never been this excited for a simple kiss, but I guess that was what happened when the woman you were falling for all over again withheld something you really fucking wanted. And I wanted her kiss like I wanted my next breath.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I’m home now. And fate would have it that you’re here, too. And I’m done with this friend bullshit, Red. I’m dong pretending I don’t want you. I’m done making excuses to see you. And I sure don’t give a shit that you’re Ella’s teacher. I want you and I’m done fucking around.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I’m calling dibs, Scarlett.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I could still feel it, though. That inevitable pull between Luk and me. It had always been there, the undercurrent of us being something more. And now was no exception. It was there whether I liked it or not. Just like always.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“His baby sister had hit the jackpot with his one. Because as far as I could figure, there probably wasn’t anything in the world better than being unconditionally loved by Lukas Callihan.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“It’s sad. Isn’t it. That I’m all she has left. Just me, fucking up everything.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“It wasn’t that I was playing for a mediocre football team or that I’d had to uproot my life. I’d do it again in a skinny minute for Ella. It was that Ella was floundering and I had no fucking idea how to fix it. She was breaking my damn heart.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“She was the shining light in all of my grim days since my mom had passed.
And I’d never give her up. I’d swim and drown. I’d jump and I’d fall. I’d try and I’d fail. But I’d just keep going. For her. Because Ella was my everything even when I felt like I had nothing.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“And when there are days you feel like you just can’t do it, know that you can. After all, you loved her first.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“family wasn’t always the one God gave you. It was also the one you chose.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“was in love with her. There was no denying it. The girl with the Skittles. The sassy redhead who was terrible at ballroom dancing. The loving woman with her arms wrapped around my sister. She owned me. Heart. Body. And soul. She just didn’t know it yet and I was done waiting on her to realize it.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I guess what I’m trying to say is, if something is going on with your baby boy, you and your girl will handle it and you’ll love him just the way he is, and he will love you, too. That won’t change. Ever. And if he does have autism, it doesn’t make him any less perfect or wonderful. You get me?”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“He leaned in and rested his forehead to mine. “But make no mistake. I’m home now. And fate would have it that you’re here, too. And I’m done with this friend bullshit, Red. I’m done pretending I don’t want you. I’m done making excuses to see you. And I sure don’t give a shit that you’re Ella’s teacher. I want you and I’m done fucking around.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“Baby, when I make love to you, you’re gonna know it. You’re gonna remember it. And you’re sure as hell gonna feel it the next day.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“God, even in my sleep I knew I wanted him. In fact, I was directly on top of him. Clinging to him like a damn spider monkey. I was pathetic in high school and I was pathetic now, too.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“He definitely wanted me. Bad. Ohhhh, how the freaking tides had changed. And it felt good.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“But the truth was, losing someone never got easier. It only got harder. Because one day, years after they’d passed, you’d wake up and realize you forgot the sound of their voice, the pitch of their laugh, their smell. And that was the fucking sad part.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“Scarlett Knox, the only girl in high school who’d made me want to do something other than play football. The only girl who’d made me want to skip football practice in exchange for tutoring lessons.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“It was silly, almost immature how I still thought of him ten years later as the one who’d gotten away. As the one who’d broken my teenage heart and stolen my first kiss.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I wanna call dibs. So bad,” he whispered almost against my lips and my knees trembled.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I had Ollie and my daddy. And no man would ever love me and treasure me as much as they did.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“Ew. No one wants to hear about your butter.” He turned and dipped me again and leaned his face into mine and waggled his eyebrows. “Lots of girls like my butter, Lettie.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone

“I’d never give her up. I’d swim and drown. I’d jump and I’d fall. I’d try and I’d fail. But I’d just keep going. For her.”
― Amie Knight, The Red Zone