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The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2) QUOTES

The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2) QUOTES

1 " Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

2 " 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 (The Inheritance Games, #2)

3 " Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

4 " Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

5 " 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 (The Inheritance Games, #2)

6 " This was the beginning - and I was ready to be bold". "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

7 " The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

8 " I came to see you,” Jameson told me. “Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

9 " This was the Grayson I’d met weeks ago: dripping power and well aware that he could come out on top in any battle. He didn’t make threats, because he didn’t have to. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

10 " 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. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

11 " Grayson Hawthorne was arrogant enough to consider himself bulletproof—and honorable enough to see a promise through to its end. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

12 " Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

13 " Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

14 " Grayson was Not Pleased - and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

15 " 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. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

16 " Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

17 " Jameson was close to me now. Too close. Every one of the Hawthorne boys was magnetic. Larger than life. They had an effect on people—and Jameson was very good at using that to get what he wanted. He wants something from me now. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

18 " I stepped into the secret passageway to find Jameson waiting for me. “Fancy meeting you here, Heiress.” “You,” I told him, “are the most annoying person on the face of the planet. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

19 " In the past six weeks, I’d been shot at, blown up, kidnapped, and paraded around as the living, breathing embodiment of Cinderella stories. To the world, I was a scandal, a mystery, a curiosity, a fantasy. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

20 " sometimes it feels good to smack the hell out of something. "

― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)