Evie Naab > Evie's Quotes

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I came to see you,” Jameson told me. “Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who's there?

I remembered a voice. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Grayson was Not Pleased - and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“This was the Grayson I’d met weeks ago: dripping power and well aware that he could come out on top in any battle. He didn’t make threats, because he didn’t have to.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Grayson Hawthorne was arrogant enough to consider himself bulletproof—and honorable enough to see a promise through to its end.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I am an expert at not wanting to want things.” I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he’d lowered his. “But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming—she’s not that girl anymore.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I stepped into the secret passageway to find Jameson waiting for me. “Fancy meeting you here, Heiress.” “You,” I told him, “are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Jameson was close to me now. Too close. Every one of the Hawthorne boys was magnetic. Larger than life. They had an effect on people—and Jameson was very good at using that to get what he wanted. He wants something from me now.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“sometimes it feels good to smack the hell out of something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Nash Hawthorne would probably tip his cowboy hat to Death herself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Jameson smiled. It was his slow, dangerous, heady smile, designed to elicit a reaction. I didn’t give him one.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“You’re a billionaire now. You have an entire team of people to protect you. The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It’s okay to want things.” Max turned off the shower. “It’s okay to go after what you want.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“You don't have to kiss me now. You don't have to love me now, Heiress. But when you're ready...When you're ready, if you're ever ready, if it's going to be me - just flip that disk. Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Before I could get the word daughter out, Grayson leaned his head down and crushed his lips to mine. He kissed me to save me from what I’d been about to say. For a small eternity, nothing in the world existed outside of that kiss. His lips. Mine. For show.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“But when he smiled, I still felt seven years old and about three inches tall.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“The coin landed. “Tails,” I said. “I kiss you.” I wrapped my arms around
his neck. I pressed my lips to his. And this time, the joke was on me—
because I wasn’t playing.
This wasn’t nothing.
This was the beginning—and I was ready to be bold.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Because this was our game - yours and mine - before it was anyone else's. Because when you and I kiss, you feel it, the same way I do.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Do you trust me, Heiress?” Jameson had donned a leather jacket. He looked like trouble. The good kind.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Whatever it is you and the boys are up to—stop.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Why was punishing yourself more important than what she wanted?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I was the glass ballerina or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland