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“You may take my freedom, but you will not be permitted to touch my joy.”
― Kiera Cass, A Thousand Heartbeats

“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

“I'm not taking anything you don't want to give”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Forging Silver into Stars

“Even when wounds healed, the scars remained.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve