Love & Hockey Quotes

“I know that I have loved you before, I will love you in this life, and I'll love you in the one after. It's always us, Vallie.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Children are not responsible for keeping a parent around. It is the adult’s job to fight for their kids, to protect them, to battle the hard things in life so they don’t have to. You don’t leave your children. You fight for them because they can’t fight for themselves sometimes.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“You’re my home, Vallie. I can’t run away from you. You’re in me, you always have been. Leaving you is worse than not having you as mine. I want to be here for you. Whenever you decide you need me, I’ll be right here. I’m not leaving you. I’m never leaving you again.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Valor and I were so broken that our pieces had found a way to mend each other. Our story was a tragically beautiful mosaic created from trauma. It’s why we were so connected. There were pieces of me holding hers together and vice versa.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“She’s the only person who knows all of me. Who gets to see every single piece of me. The one person who makes my days a little more vivid. I place my forehead on hers, snapping at her bottom lip.
“You, Valor Sullivan, are what magic is made of.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“I have never been so terrified looking at anyone in my life. I know if I give her the chance, she’ll be the woman I can’t live without. Hell, she’s already there. The one thing I promised myself I’d never do. To rely on someone for happiness, to trust someone with what I feel.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Always us?” I whisper.
He smiles, moving his hand to tug on one of my loose curls.
“Always.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Bishop?" My voice is slightly broken, soft, gentle, it doesn't even sound like me.
"Vallie?"
"It's always been us, right?"
The pained expression that spans across his face almost brings tears to my eyes. The mask of the confident man I know is gone, and in its place is just B. He looks so broken, and all I want to do is open up my arms and let him find refuge inside my skin. I want to protect him from the pain.
He drops his head to my forehead and kisses the tip of my nose.
"It'll always be us, Val.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“You’re going to be what destroys me, Vallie. But I think I’m going to let you do it anyway.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“I miss being the person she went to for everything.
Not having Valor in my life was like having a huge hole in my heart. I didn’t realize how much of my life she filled until she left.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“He runs the tip of his nose up and down my neck slowly, humming to himself as he does.
"I know exactly what to do with this body, baby. It was made for me. Every inch of you, all of it is mine, Vallie.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“What does that make me, B?"
Without hesitation, no doubt, he responds with something I never saw coming.
"You're everything, Vallie.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“What I have learned about life is that letting go doesn’t mean loving any less.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Bishop is more than just a person to me, he’s my person.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“I knew that something had burst into our lives, something like fate. It messed with our strings, the ones that tie human beings. Fate twisted, looped, and knotted ours. Until it was so messy, so dirty, they weren't strings anymore.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“B walked into my life thinking he was just another person, but he walked out of it being the other piece of my soul.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“You aren’t going to leave”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“and I was a wildflower─stubborn, difficult, strong, and impossible to tame.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey

“Fuck reincarnation. This kind of pain? Heartbreak? It was too much to handle in just one lifetime. I don't wanna know how it feels in the next one. I can see it now. I'd probably be a butterfly. I'd land in the palm of his hand after flying the globe. He'd brush me away and the rejection alone would kill me.”
― Monty Jay, Love & Hockey