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I didn’t see anything wrong with hoping for kindness in the world.
“They didn’t hunt the bison for food. The colonizers desired to annihilate another group of humans. Indigenous peoples. They knew that the Indigenous ones relied on bison. So the bison had to go.”
― A Snake Falls to Earth
― A Snake Falls to Earth
“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
“Our thoughts create our emotions. So if you fixate on your worst-case scenario, you’ll make things harder for yourself.”
― Hello Stranger
― Hello Stranger
“Every parent’s an unreliable narrator. We think we know our kids better than anyone. But none of us can see them objectively.”
― The Last One at the Wedding
― The Last One at the Wedding
“Protecting you, Mallory. I’ve always protected you. Don’t you remember your job interview? All those rude and nasty questions about your qualifications? I was trying to scare you away. I tried scaring all the candidates away. But you were persistent. You really wanted to be here. And Caroline thought you were the solution to all our problems.”
― Hidden Pictures
― Hidden Pictures
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