Evey Lyon > Quotes

“Ford,” she pleads. “We are playing with fire.”
“I’d burn the earth down if it means we get a chance.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“We can be something real, you and me.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Play

“Ford hooks his finger under my chin, guiding my gaze to him. “Let me prove to you that we can have it all. It’s our time.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“We are at the moment where real entwines with dreams.
“I never stopped loving you, Elle.”
I wrap my arms tighter around his neck. “I love you too, but I guess you knew that since you had my heart this whole time?”
“Damn straight.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“Babe, you know we can always fuck angry. But my money is on that you want me to fuck you like we matter, because we do.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Win

“I want to explore every inch of you, the way you are now.”
― Evey Lyon, Fall Twice

“I’m completely fucked if you don’t feel this attraction between us.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Risk

“We are still waiting. Fuck, we tried over the years to move on. Kept ourselves busy, we tried to find other people, and it always failed because it’s not us.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“You’re the one who walked away all those years ago. You had me first then let go.”
“And you walked straight into his arms.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Been

“Why am I not walking away from this?” …
“Why am I acting like a man already addicted?”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Risk

“What are we doing?”
… “Everything we never meant to.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Score

“Our little world, remember that, okay? For now, that’s what helps, and in time it might make sense.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Been

“I believe the future between us is what we’ve been waiting for. I just need you next to me to make that happen.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Known

“You’re mine, and I’ll be damned if I let you go this time.”
― Evey Lyon, Fall Twice

“To my utter dismay, you’re getting under my skin in a way that I’m not used to.”
Fear that he may have regretted last night fades, and my body softens into his words. “Likewise.”
“Something is shifting.”
“I agree.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Chance

“You’re worth the wait. We were always going to find our way back.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“I don’t want to lose you, so here I am, leaving no stone unturned, because you and me? We’re worth the chance.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Chance

“True love is when you let someone find their path to you on their own terms.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Been

“If I ever had a shot at something extraordinary, then maybe, just maybe, it’s with her.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Play

“This woman is sexual dynamite with a heart of gold. And I hate the fucking guy who will claim forever with her.
But right now, she is mine.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Score

“I warned you that your hockey-playing son should stay away from my little girl,” he seethes to his friend.
Ford rolls his eyes. “Yeah, when they were teenagers! They are legal adults now who drink and know how to sign their name on a marriage certificate. We need to focus on the now. They’re married.”
“Yeah, and your son didn’t have the respect to speak to me before he made my daughter his bride!” My father is furious.
“I would have. It’s just…passion and love caught us in a moment,” Connor explains.
My dad rubs his temples. “Do. Not. Speak of passion and my daughter to me. If it weren’t for the fact that you are Ford’s son, then I swear I would kill you right now.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Win

“You’re not just anyone. You were always going to be more than something to me.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Win

“What’s the real reason you’re here?”
I take a deep breath and remind myself that I’m a confident person who might as well be straightforward. “I guess I’ll be blunt.”
“Please. Your candor struck me from the very beginning,” he presses.
“I want to figure out if you’re the man who is the perfect fuck or the man who has the potential to be more.”
If a man ever had a winning grin, then Hudson Arrows just displayed it.
He leans in, his lips brushing along my cheek up toward my ear where I feel the tingle of his stubbled chin.
“Baby, I know I can be both, and I have every intention of showing you.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Risk

“We’ve been dealt a hand in life that has made us resilient, and it only works if we have one another.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Been

“This is right, what it’s supposed to be.
I like who I am now, I like who he is, and most of all, we are better now than then.”
― Evey Lyon, Fall Twice

“You’re the guy who doesn’t want a future with anyone, which is almost hysterical, because you’re the guy who made me realize that I’m ready to have a future with someone.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Score

“I’m not letting you go.”
― Evey Lyon, Should Have Been

“Stay the week with me and let’s be everything we wanted, give us this.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“Our eyes lock and so begins our usual lingering gaze.
It happens every damn time.
… It’s all a fucking simmer that never boils over.”
― Evey Lyon, Worth the Wait

“Our lines…they’re blurry.”
“I agree…but this feels right.”
― Evey Lyon, Waiting to Score