Crush Quotes

“Do you trust me?” he asks.
“Of course, but—”
“Do. You. Trust. Me?” he asks again, and in the space between the words—the space between us—are all the things we’ve never said.
“Yes,” I whisper, even as my entire body recoils from the hole in the ground he’s made for me.
“Yes?” he asks, his blue eyes a little disbelieving and a lot determined.
“Yes, Hudson. I trust you.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I’ll never make you choose, Grace. How could I when I know that you’d never choose me?”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Sometimes life hands you more than a new hand of cards to play—it hands you a whole new deck, maybe even a whole new game.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“A quiet calm settles over me as the pain recedes in soft waves, and all I see is Hudson. This moment. The last words we’ll ever share. And I want him to know. I want him to know that I see everything now. I see him.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“If heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“And a few seconds after that, the entire building starts collapsing in on itself. I watch over Hudson’s shoulder as wood and glass and stone and metal come tumbling down, the arena literally tearing itself apart piece by piece.
Hudson’s words come back to me now, as does that moment when I was returning his powers to him—the moment when I realized just how infinite they really are.
The amount of power it takes to tear the arena down and hurt no one.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I watch him go, and Hudson pretends to play some very sad music on an air violin in the background. “And the villain fades away into obscurity, never to be seen or heard from again…”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Not when the last time he was happy, he was plotting a hostile takeover of half the paranormal world.”
“You wound me. It was at least three-quarters.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Don’t be sorry. Being annoying is my brother’s singular talent.”
“Whatever,” Hudson growls, and he sounds even more pissed than he did this morning. “It barely cracks the top ten of my talents.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“You’re what my mother would have called a “piece of work,” you know that?
“Yeah? Because you’re what my mom calls ‘dangerous.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“There’s so much to unpack there that I don’t even know where to start. And for once, Hudson is completely silent, absolutely no help at all. The traitor.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Sometimes you just have to put your head down and get the bad stuff done, even if you don’t want to.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Because I won’t let you fail.” He nods to Macy. “Tell her to try again.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“My hands curl into fists, my fangs explode in my mouth, and though there were a million other ways I was hoping to break my newfound knowledge to Grace, the words come out before I can even think about stopping them. “Jaxon, if you wouldn’t mind, take your fucking hands off my mate.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Dude, she has wings. You better catch me instead. No way do I want a dragon's talon through my heart.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Why don’t gargoyles go out during the day?” “I don’t want to know.” I brace for his answer. “Because they’re too stoned.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Jaxon, if you wouldn’t mind, take your fucking hands off my mate.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I need to step up and figure out how to solve my own problems.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I’ve waited an eternity for you, Grace. I can wait a little longer.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“This isn’t something you can fix. It’s just something you have to endure. Whatever happens next, I promise I won’t blame you for it.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“A huge screech sounds from several feet away that startles us apart.
“AHHHHHH! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!”
Because I’d know that screech anywhere, I shoot Jaxon a rueful smile and take a couple of steps back, right before my cousin, Macy, slams straight into my side.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Even Hudson gives a shout from behind me, his arms reaching around my waist and tugging me against his chest as though to protect me.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“He's got telekinesis. He floats. You know, like a blimp.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“The horns?” Instinctively, I lift a hand to my left horn and feel it. “Oh my God, it’s bigger. How can it be bigger?” “Now there’s a question I’m sure Jaxon’s never heard,” Hudson says dryly. “I’m still here, you know,” Jaxon grinds out. “I’m right fucking here.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Is it a bitchy response? Yeah. Do I care? Not even a little bit.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I swear, if I were reading this story, I’d say the plot twists were getting ridiculous. But I’m not reading it. I’m living it, and that is so much worse.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“Come on Baby,
Light My Candle”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“And so I ignore the voice deep inside warning—no, begging—me to leave.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“I’m determined to not wait for Jaxon to take care of me anymore.”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush

“this will be the first time I’ll get the up-close-and-personal introduction. Super excited…not. #ratherhavearootcanal”
― Tracy Wolff, Crush