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“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Grayson told me. “I wanted her to be you.”

“Don’t say that,” I whispered.

He looked at me one last time. “There are so many things that I will never say.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Grayson Hawthorne was arrogant enough to consider himself bulletproof—and honorable enough to see a promise through to its end.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Nash Hawthorne would probably tip his cowboy hat to Death herself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy