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you can’t use any form of the word be: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been. Those are words that lead to telling.”
“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
“My mother made me wise, made me independent, made me learn how to fight for myself.”
― The Perfect Marriage
― The Perfect Marriage
“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”
― The Perfect Marriage
― The Perfect Marriage
“It’s what I do when I don’t know what to do. I tidy. I clean things up.”
― The Perfect Marriage
― The Perfect Marriage
“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
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