Mel Shank

“I was the one who jumped; he was the one that stayed warm and dry.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“Right now, I needed to be the man I tried so hard not to be in order to be someone worthy of the girl I was trying to save. I”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“I tilted her head back as far as it would go without dunking her back in the icy water and started to breathe into her mouth. I breathed in all the love I had for her. I gave her air flavored with my confidence that we were meant to be, and laced with the knowledge that she made me a better kind of man. I breathed out and filled her lungs with the future I wanted to share with her and all the memories I wanted to make with her.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged

“The trick is staying found, I think. It’s easy to get lost when your life is constantly in a state of disarray. The right path gets obscured as quickly as you make it.”
He put a hand on my shoulder and told me solemnly, “That’s why you find something or someone that guides you, someone that won’t lose you, and someone that you don’t mind getting lost with when that inevitably happens.”
― Jay Crownover, Charged