“But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
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