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It had taken me some time to reconcile in my head that I didn’t need to sacrifice everything for others in order to keep the peace.
“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?”
― The Final Gambit
"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?”
― The Final Gambit
“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
“No hello. No how are you. Just, wanna go get a grilled cheese?”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
“You always make the time when you want to.”
― Holiday Romance
― Holiday Romance
“It’s hard to love someone without restraint. To give yourself over to the swell and pull of it without fear of what might happen. I think it’s only natural to hold a part of yourself back and protect what you can.”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
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