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“Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks.”
You cannot Escape the reality of tomorrow by evading it today. —Abraham Lincoln
like she was a mystery—and his to solve.
“I’m not wheezing.” Gigi gave herself a little pep talk. “I’m breathing in an almost musical manner.”
“The one on the left likes ponies. The one on the right likes to eat ponies.”
“Try. The world just loves women who try.”
“Sometimes,” Avery said, “in the games that matter most, the only way to really play is to live.”
“The best puzzles aren’t complicated.”
“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on.” Grayson kept right on looking at the scoreboard. “And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don’t know how to fill.”
She prepared herself for the shift to Grumpy Pantaloons.
A riddle A puzzle A Hawthorne game
“Everyone wants something from me.”
“I know their secrets, Savvy, because knowing such things is my job.”
Grayson bent to block out the rest of the world from her view. “Give me your eyes, sweetheart.”
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS.
Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on.
“are you going to toss someone out a window, yes or no?”
“You are playing this game for your father. One way or another, he matters very much.”
No one and nothing mattered more.
her. “You don’t want to admit how angry you are,” he said, his voice low and taunting, “because if you do, someone might ask why.”
“I don’t dance anymore.”
“You never stopped dancing,” Grayson said behind her. “Every time you move, you dance.”
“I had an unconventional childhood.” A Hawthorne childhood,
blood, death, omega; a Hawthorne did this; stop calling—
“Stand still and try not to kill yourself.”
“Love is a strange and wild beast,” the old woman said. “It’s a gift and a comfort and a curse. Remember that.”
“There are some legacies one does not wish to pass down.”
In the grandest of games, there are no coincidences. There are some legacies one does not wish to pass down.
“Like I said, I’m a man of many talents.” Xander slung an arm around her. “Among them, I give excellent platonic snuggles, and I know when not to ask.”
