Lexi Harper

“You cannot escape the reality of tomorrow by evading it today.

-Abraham Lincoln”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“There was a price to be paid for power, always. The only question was how steep the price was-and who was going to pay for it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Back in August, my stepdad Paul had tried to help me organize my schoolwork when he saw that it was way too much for me to keep straight on my own. He suggested I think of homework as triage. “Look at your assignments like they’re wounded patients,” he’d said, “and handle them in order of severity. ‘Okay, you need immediate attention, or you’ll die. You can wait a bit. You aren’t that bad—go home, take some aspirin, and call me tomorrow.’” I gave my homework a lot of aspirin.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don't know how to fill.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Grandest Game