“He blames Maria for sending you away. I think he felt like he lost both of you when you were gone. We all did.”
“You think I didn’t fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“Glad to know you're thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“I am an expert at not wanting to want things.” I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he’d lowered his. “But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming—she’s not that girl anymore.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”
― The Hawthorne Legacy
― The Hawthorne Legacy
“Brianne has a look of genuine surprise on her face. “Cleo, that’s so great! We don’t get many new knitters on the island.” “The last one turned out to be a crocheter,” Dolores mutters, as dark as if she’d said murderer. “The audacity!” Delta’s green eyes dance. “Ma, you should have shoved her crochet hook right up her—”
― One Night on the Island
― One Night on the Island
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