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“You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“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

“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

“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

“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“You son of a bitch. She was dying and you just stood there! And don't even tell me it was shock.
You would know, Jamie, about standing there and watching someone die.
Emily. it always comes back to Emily with you. You know what I think Gray? I think the whole martyr act was a lie you told yourself. I think you need an excuse to draw a line so you could stay safe on the other side.
You don't know what you're talking about.
You can't let go. You couldn't when Emily was alive, no matter what she did, and you can't now.
Are you done?
Avery was dying, and you couldn't run toward her. What do you want from me, Jamie?
You think I didn't fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I'd be fine. Well, jokes on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.
What do you want from me?
Look at her Gray. Look at her, damn it! Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendant eius. -She's one of us. We protect her-”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Two,” I said now, just as I had then, but this time I couldn’t help wondering if Jameson was talking about a different kind of triangle—about him and Grayson and me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I have to say, Heiress, I’m not a big fan of comas.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Because this was our game—yours and mine—before it was anyone else’s.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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

“I have a better idea.” Jameson lowered his lips to mine. My neck arched. More mud on my face, my clothes. “I bet,” he countered, “that you can’t wash all this mud off before I…” “Before you what?” I murmured. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne smiled. “Guess.”
― 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

“Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don't get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who's capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you - on us, against the world. You don't get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn't who you are, and it's not what I want.”
― 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

“You made me hungry," I told Jameson. "for everything. I want the world now." I held his gaze in a way that dared him to look away. "And I want it with you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“That you’ll be more careful. That I won’t come home to find you gone again.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“It was always going to be you,” I told Jameson. He needed to hear it. I needed to say it, even though always painted over so much. In response, Jameson gave me another crooked smile. “It’s times like this, Heiress, that I wish I’d fallen in love with a girl who wasn’t quite so good at bluffing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“An arrogant, duty-bound asshole who tries to be honorable and would die to protect the girl he loves.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I'll have you know that most celebrity sites rank me as the second-hottest Hawthorne." -Jameson”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“If you want, Mystery Girl, you can start calling me Mystery Boy." -Jameson”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“He saw the stylists first, then Avery, and once he saw Avery, it was like he couldn’t see anything else.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“When you're old enough, when you're ready, be warned: There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthrone man loves.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“The danger of touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into the skin”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“It would be shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't, it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Do you trust me, Heiress?” Jameson had donned a leather jacket. He looked like trouble. The good kind. “Not even a little,” I replied, but I took the helmet from his outstretched hand, and when he climbed onto the motorcycle, I climbed on behind him.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“I saw you with him. That Hawthorne boy.” She managed to stand. “Never trust a Hawthorne,” she slurred. “They take everything.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“For god’s sake, Simon, enough with The Office references,’ Maddy said. ‘He’s been doing that since middle school, before he even knew what it meant.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You were supposed to be my true love. You were supposed to want me, not him. You were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale