We are having conversations about it. We're going to take a look at this and see if it makes sense for both sides. If it doesn't, we'll do a one-year deal and there will be no problems whatsoever.

Nobody loves the game of baseball more than Pete Rose Jr.. If you could take his desire and his heart and his guts and put it in a more talented body, you'd have one of the greatest players of all time.

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?"

She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance.

Instead, he kissed her.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

Raccoon." She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. "Like, you caught it?"
"Well, it sure didn't get Fed-Exed [...]