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"“That night I promised I’d never be wordless when you needed me to speak for you.”
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“I code switched. I took off our language and wore my English, like a mask, so that others would see my face, and therefore yours.”
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“I don’t know if you’re happy, Ma. I never asked.”
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I could rip this apart and overanalyse this type of platonic love." — Jun 15, 2025 09:40AM
"“That night I promised I’d never be wordless when you needed me to speak for you.”
…
“I code switched. I took off our language and wore my English, like a mask, so that others would see my face, and therefore yours.”
…
“I don’t know if you’re happy, Ma. I never asked.”
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I could rip this apart and overanalyse this type of platonic love." — Jun 15, 2025 09:40AM
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
“He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn't quite theirs.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“I am a human Rube Goldberg machine," he said. "I do simple things in complicated ways”
― The Inheritance Games
― The Inheritance Games
“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
“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
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