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January 12 - January 13, 2025
everyone should always have at least one.
Eventually, I stopped wondering why a man I’d never met would have left me something—and started wondering how much.
Same girl, same
“Mr. Hawthorne was fond of good guessers.”
“I have conversations. Lovely conversations. Quite frankly, that’s how I ended up with four sons. Wonderful, intimate conversations with four fascinating men…”
Dearest Avery, I’m sorry. —T. T. H.
Hey, Mystery Girl. You’re officially famous.
“Sometimes,” Jameson Hawthorne said, sounding strangely contemplative, “things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
“You’re protective,” Nash commented, “and you seem like you’d fight dirty, and if there’s one thing I respect, it’s those particular traits in combination.”
“There’s a chance that Hawthorne House is just a tiny bit hard to navigate. Imagine, if you will, that a labyrinth had a baby with Where’s Waldo?, only Waldo is your rooms.”
“Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
“He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I. Don’t judge.
“I don’t think that you have to be the villain of this story to be a threat to this family.”
“You might think you’re playing the game, darlin’, but that’s not how Jamie sees it.” Nash’s voice was gentle enough, but for the words. “We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
that all he wanted was to get lost again.”
The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.”
“This family—we destroy everything we touch.”
“Em didn’t like to choose.”
