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1 " I forgot how good French fries are. "
― Erin Fletcher , All Laced Up (All Laced Up, #1)
2 " I had taught young skaters before, but somehow I didn't think "Zamboni avoidance" was covered in basic skills class. "
3 " I did my best to stay away from Pierce, even if ignoring him completely was impossible. It wasn't enough that he was popular at school and the local ice arenas, but a few news outlets had grabbed a hold of his YouTube channel, mostly his greatest hockey hits and the video equivalent of selfies, and turned him into a web celeb. "
4 " A model-perfect guy with endless charm and enough talent to attract the scouts could rule the world, or at least his corner of the world, which was unfortunate because it was a corner of the world I was apparently destined to share. "
5 " You'd think I'd never seen him before, but whoa. Pierce was hot. Possibly hotter than the last time I'd seen him. Tall with brown hair and a body that showed just how much he worked out. Hazel eyes with more green than brown. Something about his jaw made him seem older than he actually was. "
6 " My parents always knew to leave me alone after a loss, especially a painful loss like the one tonight. When I got home from the rink, I went straight to my room to sulk and throw things a little harder and beat myself up over the fact that I totally screwed up. "
7 " He couldn’t handle haircuts—something about the sound of the blades against the thin strands or the feel of the cold metal on his neck, or maybe both—so our parents had made a deal that he didn’t have to get it cut until it was hanging in his eyes. "
8 " I just know it’s not his fault. Like as much as I desperately want the puck to go in the net, sometimes it doesn’t. And as much as Carson wants sounds and smells to be okay, they aren’t. I do what I can to help. "
9 " Each Zamboni at The Ice House was named after a large animal, real or otherwise: Bessie, Shamu, Dumbo, I could never keep them straight, but Mr. Kozlov always did. "
10 " It never failed to amaze me that Mr. Kozlov could memorize rink schedules and the past hundred years of hockey history, but couldn't remember to tell me things like the fact that I had a co-teacher for the workshop I thought I was teaching on my own. "
11 " I struggled to remember the last time I'd been forced to interact with Pierce Miller. Since he advanced from Troy Preparatory Academy's hockey team to USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, I'd seen a lot less of him. Less at the rink because his new team practiced at an ice arena in Plymouth, a few cities over and less at school because of his travel schedule with the team. "