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“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“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
“Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
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