Hockey Romance Quotes

“But,” Shane said. He had to say this next part. It had been eating away at him for too long. “You want to get married, right? To a woman, I mean. You’re not...like me. You like women. And I’m sure...Svetlana is gorgeous and fun and...all that stuff. Right?”
“Yes,” Ilya said. “I do. She is. But.”
“But?”
Ilya shrugged, and he looked like he was possibly blushing. “I have this problem,” he mumbled.
Shane waited.
“I like women. I always was thinking that to get married would be nice. Kids. All of that. Someday. But...this problem will not go away.”
Shane bit his lip. “Tell me about this problem.”
“Is so annoying.” Ilya sighed, and Shane could see him fighting a grin. “Always I am with beautiful women. Wonderful women. Everywhere.”
“Sounds rough.”
“Yes. Listen. These women, they are so sexy and fun, but is no matter. I cannot stop thinking about this short fucking hockey player with these stupid freckles and a weak backhand.”
“A weak backhand?” Shane couldn’t stop smiling.
“Yes. And he is just so boring and he drives a terrible car and...that is my problem. All of these beautiful women and I am always wishing they were him.”
Ilya bent to take his third shot. “Is terrible problem.”

Fuck. Shane was going start crying right here in his games room. He swallowed and steadied himself. “Do you want the problem to go away?”

“No,” Ilya said seriously, looking Shane dead in the eye. “I do not want the problem to ever go away.”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry

“And...like I said. We’re an hour away from each other. All year.”
He wanted Ilya to see this vision as clearly as he could. It seemed tantalizingly possible. Easy, even.
“And you’d be in Canada. And you could apply for citizenship eventually.”
“Yes. I understand that part.”
“And maybe...someday. When we both retire. We can...be together. For real.”
Ilya looked stunned by that part. “You really think that far ahead, Hollander?”
“I do about this.”
“You want that? To be together?”
“I do. So much it terrifies me.”
Ilya turned his face away from Shane, and was silent. Cold dread flooded Shane’s stomach; he had admitted too much."
“But Ilya turned back and quickly rolled on top of Shane and was kissing him and kissing him and kept murmuring the same thing in Russian over and over again until he pulled back and translated:
“I love you.”
Shane froze. And then Ilya froze.
“Holy shit,” Shane whispered. It wasn’t how he had meant to respond.
“I...” Ilya’s eyes were so wide and so scared.
“I love you too,” Shane said.
Ilya gave a shaky smile and exhaled. “Thank Christ.”
“Does it...does it feel like agony for you too?”
Ilya started to nod, then stopped. He shook his head slowly instead.
“Not anymore.”
― Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry

“I-"Fuck. "Well, I am angry at you, Nathan."
"Good."
"So fucking angry."
"Perfect.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“Two weeks off hockey compared to a few days without Sloane proved two things to me: I can live without hockey but I can't live without Sloane.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be
bored.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Her gaze meets mine, and it's so full of love. Because that's what Raleigh is, she's love.”
― Sloane St. James, In the Game

“I tasted lemon and whiskey and rain and champagne, and it seemed like the most delicious combination of flavors in existence.”
― Melanie Harlow

“I look away from that face I know so well. The one I still see in my dreams sometimes. How do I coach this guy?
There’s no rulebook for this.”
― Sarina Bowen, The Last Guy on Earth

“I want to slap her until she cries, choke her until she can’t breathe, and softly promise her in her ear that I will be the end of her.”
― A. Briar, PIKE: St. Charles Hockey Volume 1

“He can trap me in his gravity pour toujours.”
― Tal Bauer, Gravity

“Love can be icy. Love can be a warm whisper. Sometimes it is both simultaneously.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Tory is so beautiful that it violently smacks you in the face every single time you look at him. The kind of beautiful that makes people squirm with discomfort.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“He's rugged, yet angelic. Poetic, yet blasphemous. Unkempt, yet meticulous.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Looking at Tory is like looking at the sun. Life-giving, yet utterly destructive.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“But he is mine. Not mine in the true, real sense of the word. Mine in the purely delusional sense.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“She thinks she's not the prettiest girl in school. I think that's pretty stupid.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Watching Tory is like watching poetry on ice. He moves with graceful precision that maintains a certain level of brutality.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Seriously, Noah. You’re moving out to play in the National fucking Hockey League. Who cares what your homophobic piece of shit dad thinks about your friends?”
― Stephanie Hoyt

“I couldn’t fathom going up to my room, but I couldn’t sit in this silence anywhere in the house. I hurried upstairs to fetch my guitar, then walked into the basement to be alone and as close to hell as I could physically get on short notice.”
― Hayden Hall, Coaching Prince Charming

“Joe Lupo was a man who knew how to score.”
― Melanie Harlow, Slap Shot Surprise

“Watch your back, trouble, I’m coming for you, in more ways than one.”
― G.N. Wright, The Puck Player

“Aubree Callows is the best play I’ve ever fucking made.”
― G.N. Wright, The Puck Player

“Our friendship, our connection, the way he can just look at me and know exactly what I'm thinking, exactly what I need. It's like we are two halves of the same soul, and falling for him was inevitable.”
― G.N. Wright, The Puck Player

“Alexander Reign came into my life and disrupted everything. He ruined what I thought I knew, and now I want to ruin him. Ruin him so that every girl before me knows he belongs to me and only me from now on.”
― G.N. Wright, The Puck Player

“Just because the mood is twenty years deep doesn’t mean it doesn’t need fixing.”
― J.R. Gray, No Pucks

“All I did was love a boy. None of this was supposed to happen.”
― Ivy Hamilton, Keep Me Like a Secret

“Is there anything I can do?” I ask, hating the helplessness squeezing at my heart. Now I get why Chris was so pissed off that morning at the gym. Jesus, he’s had to keep this all in. I’d put money on the fact that he’s immune to the brand of helplessness clawing at my chest right now.
Maisy looks up at me, her hopeful whiskey eyes trailing my face. "Can you be right here when I get back?”
“Of course.” I press a soft kiss to her forehead.
“Anything for you.”
― Mackenzie Hamelin

“What am I thinking? I can’t do dinner with Cameron. At an intimate table for two. Sharing a bottle of wine. Making small talk all while trying not to drool because he’ll probably be wearing a button down that showcases some of the tattoos on his chest.”
― Carly Robyn, Fire and Ice

“But as I walk to my car, I can’t shake the feeling that nothing about this arrangement is going to be fair—or simple—at all.”
― Carly Robyn, Fire and Ice

“I promised Tori I’d behave. And I’m trying.
I really am.
But she’s making it f***ing near impossible.
Sitting next to me, smelling like a damn rose garden. Better than all the flowers I sent her combined. The way she blushes every time we brush up against each other. Her fingers working that gold chain around her neck.
Adorable.”
― Kara Kendrick, Bad Boy Breakaway