Maria :) > Maria :)'s Quotes

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Maxon, some of those marks are on your back so they wouldn’t be on mine, and I love you for them.”

He stopped breathing for a second. “What did you say?”

I smiled. “I love you.”

“One more time, please? I just—”

I took his face in both of my hands. “Maxon Schreave, I love you. I love you.”

“And I love you, America Singer. With all that I am, I love you.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Maxon: “To be clear, no one agrees with you.”

America: “To be clear, I don’t care.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“. . . It’s me?”
“Of course it’s you.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“What am I supposed to call you?"

"Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“What if he hates me?"

"No one could possibly hate you, Xander," I told him, my heart twisting.

"Avery, people have hated me my whole life." There was something in his tone that made me think that very few people understood what it was like to be Xander Hawthorne.

"Not anyone who knows you," I said fiercely.

Xander smiled, and something about it made me want to cry. "Do you think it's okay," he said, sounding younger than I'd ever heard him, "that I loved playing those Saturday morning games? Loved growing up here? Loved the great and terrible Tobias Hawthorne?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Nash. Grayson. Jameson. Xander.” He said their names one at a time. “You were the clay, and I was the sculptor, and it has been the joy and honor of my life to make you better men than I will ever be. Men who may curse my name but will never forget it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery-some things are too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“They’d been sculpted by Tobias Hawthorne, formed and forged by the billionaire’s hands. They were extraordinary, and for the first time in their lives, they weren’t living under the weight of his expectations.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Even in the darkest of times, Xander was Xander. "You're going to drop one of those on your foot," I said. "That's okay," Xander responded cheerfully. "I have two feet!”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“You're honorable, Avery Kylie Grambs. Once you were with me, you were with me. You love me, scars and all. I know that, Heiress. I do.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I guess that’s what happens,” Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, “when you take a very risky gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“If you had a baby…,” I said. “When I have a baby,” came the deep, heart-shattering reply, “she’ll be my whole world.” “She?” I repeated. Nash settled back into his seat. “I can picture Lib with a little girl.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“But mostly, I can’t hate him, Avery Kylie Grambs, because he brought me you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“...love wasn't just a choice-it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“No,” Xander said, his voice suddenly serious. “But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop, and once you’re out, once your brain stops cycling—” “You see the things you missed before.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Even if no one else loves you, you can. Even if no one else ever puts you first, you can.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“All great lives should have at least one grand mystery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Final Gambit

“Our grandfather liked to say that every choice worth anything came with a cost.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Nash, I’ve cued up the Taylor Swift for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit