12 Quotes by Daryl Banner

A dream job certainly feels a lot different when you’re paid in nothing but reality checks.

I've hugged teammates after victories and screamed in their faces. I've thrust myself against big meaty bodies over and over again. I've grabbed men and tackled them to the grass. I've breathed their heat, and shared their water bottles, and sweated with them. But Billy is the first one I feel I'm allowed to be myself around. He's the only one I can grab...and do more with.

I'm apparently in love with a thirteen-year-old who makes lewd sex jokes in public, shamelessly plays footsy with me under the table the whole time I'm trying to enjoy my shrimp scampi, and is insatiably horny at all hours of the day.

When his shirt is tugged up halfway up his torso to his chest, Jimmy follows the lead by lifting off of me to allow the shirt over his head and off his arms, where it's then flung away, never to be heard from again, and he's on my lips once more.But shirtless now.Good Lord, Jimmy, and it ain't even my birthday.

I grin. “It’s just a party,” I assure her. “Nothin’ big.”“There ain’t nothin’ that happens on this ranch that’s organized by your mama that ain’t big. That woman’s about as subtle as a shotgun.”“A shotgun can be subtle if it ain’t bein’ fired,” I point out.She narrows her eyes. I think she’s about to quip back with something super sassy, but then a smile wrinkles up her face. “You sayin’ I’m better off to keep the shotgun from firin’?”“I’m sayin’ quit playin’ with the trigger, Grandma.

And you, Scott?”Scott’s me. I’m Scott. Hi. “I don’t care what it is,” I answer. “Something with an umbrella in it.”I’m trying to “let go” and trust Ollie with the choice of beverage.

I’m as flirty as a spatula. And there’s nothing sexy about a spatula.

He’s going to join, so you must like him. We must all like each other because that’s the rule,” declares Rone. “That’s the rule I made up just now.

I’ll be damned,” I say, then realize I kinda already am.