Grayson Hawthorne Quotes

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

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Grayson told me. “I wanted her to be you.”

“Don’t say that,” I whispered.

He looked at me one last time. “There are so many things that I will never say.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don't know how to fill.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Grandest Game

“You hated the idea of me.”
“But not you. Never you.”

“I wanted Eve to be different,” Grayson told me. “I wanted her to be you.”
“Don’t say that,” I whispered.
He looked at me one last time. “There are so many things that I will never say.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of soing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games Collection

“I moved on from Emily,” he said. “Gray didn’t. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Gigi Grayson was not obsessed! She was not over-caffeinated! She certainly wasn't about to fall of the roof! But try telling a Hawthorne that.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
I tried not to feel like the ground was suddenly moving underneath my feet. “You hated the idea of me.”
“But not you.” The words were just as sweet, just as painful. “Never you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“It has taken me a lifetime to learn how to be weak.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Nobody, The Grandest Game

“I need this,' Xander said into the microphone. 'You need this. We all need this. Nash, I’ve cued up the Taylor Swift for you. Jameson, get ready to break out those dance moves because this stage is calling your name, and we all know that your hips are utterly incapable of falsehood. And as for Grayson…' Xander paused. 'Where is Gray?'
'Grayson Hawthorne skipping out on karaoke?' Libby said. 'I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.'
'Gray has a voice so deep and smooth that you will shed literal tears as he sings something so old school that you will come to believe he spent the 1950s wearing the most dapper of suits and hanging out with his bestie, Frank Sinatra,' Xander swore.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit