Xander Hawthorne Quotes

“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

“knock knock! I just happened to have my ear pressed to this door. I might have overheard some things, and I have a suggestion!”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Who's she supposed to be?' The old woman grunted, nodding towards Max.
'That's my friend Max,' Xander replied.
'Your friend max?' I repeated.
'I promised to build her a droid,' Xander said cheerily. 'We're very close now. But that's beside the point.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“A refined scone-tasting palate does not develop overnight."
Max narrowed her eyes. "Scones are muffins that got confused.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Vincit simul, amittere simul (Win together, Lose together)
~Xander Hawthorne
[The grandest game]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“and in my defense, I
didn’t expect the zoo to send an actual tiger.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games Collection

“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

“You, with the face! And the abs! And the blankets!" "I also have a cactus.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection