Momo

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“You have a daughter now," I told him, my voice low.
He looked at me, his expression never wavering. "I have two."
In the span of a heartbeat, fury gave way to devastation. Tobias Hawthorne the Second wasn't my father. He hadn't raised me. I didn't carry a single drop of his blood.
But he'd just called me his daughter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Some people are smart. Some people are good." He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. "And some people are both.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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