“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
“Let it be known that telling a woman to relax has never once resulted in said relaxation.”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
“You’re not always going to know what the right thing is,” he had said. “When that happens, you continue.”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways.”
― Lovelight Farms
― Lovelight Farms
“That’s one good thing about bad days,” I say, as her face falls. “They always end.”
― Snowed In
― Snowed In
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