The First Score Quotes

“The irony wasn’t lost on me that I treated that bracelet much like I treated Oliver. Hidden away in my heart, terrified of losing the things I held precious.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“I hadn’t wanted to love him. I threw out excuse after excuse. He was too young. He was my best friend’s little brother. But the truth of it was, he was my rock. My one. The love of my fucking life. He was mine. That’s all he’d ever been.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“Every minute I’d spent waiting for Hazel had been worth it. I would’ve waited a thousand times over to experience this.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“It’s easy not to have sex when the only girl you want to have sex with his friend zoned the hell out of your ass.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“You deserve everything, Hazel. And I’m going to prove it to you, consequences be damned.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“Have I ever once let you fall?”
Her tender gaze fell on mine, years of friendship swirling in their brown depths. “Never.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“You could have any girl in the world.”
He laid his forehead to my right temple, his hands still held to the sides of my face delicately, and whispered right into the shell of my hear, “But I don’t want just any girl, Hazel.” He leaned in even closer until his lips were a breath away from mine. “I want you.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“You take your time. I’ve got the rest of my life,”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“You know, you’ve been putting doors between us for a long time. And one day you’re going to realize that a door isn’t going to keep me from you. Because I’m always here, Hazel. Right on the other side, waiting. And all you have to do is open the door.” He”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“I realized that cutting myself felt good. It was something I could control when I felt like I couldn’t control anything else in my life. I couldn’t control when my father would drink. How he would react when he got home. I spent too many years walking on eggshells, never knowing. But the cutting, I knew the deeper I cut the more it would hurt, and the more it hurt, the more it would bleed. I was in control of that.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“No, baby. I’m going to strip you bare and lay you down in my bed. I’m going to kiss every inch of that golden skin, even the scarred bits. And when I finally slide into you, I’ll be making love to you, not fucking you.” His hands cradled the sides of my face. “Do you understand me?”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“It’s easy not to have sex when the only girl you want to have sex with has friend zoned the hell out of your ass.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“No, Hazel. I love you. And I don’t love you like a sister or even a friend. I love you like I want to marry you and have babies with you and grow old with you. And I have for a long time.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“I’d wait for her as long as she needed. Time was measured in such a small number compared to the sheer volume of my love for Hazel.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“How do you always do that?” My voice muffled by his chest. He pulled me back and looked down at me, his eyes fierce, like he was ready to go to battle for me. “How do I always do what?” “Come when I need you. Save me.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“But I don’t want just any girl, Hazel.” He leaned in even closer until his lips were a breath away from mine. “I want you.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“And there he went saving me again. Or maybe this time he was just saving himself.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score

“I made a fake name. I lied about my age. I pretended I wasn’t a naïve virgin. And I catfished the hell out of the love of my life, my sister’s best friend.”
― Amie Knight, The First Score