Kate

“Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Her lips thin, and all I get in return is a curt nod. Looks like our brief bout of camaraderie is over. Note to self: Charlotte doesn’t like being disobeyed.”
― Karen M. McManus, Nothing More to Tell

“That’s very toxic behavior,” Charlotte says, and I snort out a laugh. “If you ever meet my mother, Charlotte, you’ll realize what an understatement that is.”
― Karen M. McManus, Nothing More to Tell

“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