Avery Grambs Quotes

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who's there?

I remembered a voice. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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

“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?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The answer to your first riddle,” I told him. “If yes is no and once is never,
then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two.” I drew out my reply, not
bothering to explain how I’d arrived at my answer”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“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 soing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Like the sun and the moon
I loved her.
Saint Avery.
Until death and beyond.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“The coin landed. “Tails,” I said. “I kiss you.” I wrapped my arms around
his neck. I pressed my lips to his. And this time, the joke was on me—
because I wasn’t playing.
This wasn’t nothing.
This was the beginning—and I was ready to be bold.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Heiress, before we start spilling secrets, I'm going to need you to promise me a plane.'
'A plane?' I gave him an incredulous look.
'You have several.' Jameson smiled. 'I want to borrow one.'
'Why do you need a plane?' Grayson asked suspiciously.
Jameson waved away the question.
'Fine,' I told him. 'You can take one of my planes.' Yet another sentence I never thought I'd say.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy