The Grandest Game Quotes

“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. 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.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes , The Grandest Game

“Sometimes, in the games that matter most, the only way to really play is to live.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“The danger of touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into the skin”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks.” - Lyra Kane (The Grandest Game)”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I have spent my entire life being fine when I wasn't. I know the price. I know what it's like to bear that prince with every cell in your body. It isn't worth it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I know you. Your voice." The word caught in his throat "I recognize your voice”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I was coming undone, and I do not do that. As a rule, when I can no longer deny that I am hurting, I push people away. I find a way to hurt more."

"To prove you can. To prove that no matter how much you hurt, you'll survive."

"Yes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“The position should have felt precarious. It shouldn't have felt like a pas de deux. Swan lake.She shouldn't have felt Grayson Hawthorne's touch like an invitation, a beckoning”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Grayson's pale eyes locked on hers with an odd kind of recognition, like the two of them were strangers who'd met gazes across a crowded room only to realize they'd met before.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don't even know how to fill.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Gigi Grayson was not obsessed! She was not over-caffeinated! She certainly wasn't about to fall of the roof! But try telling a Hawthorne that.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I don't have a bad side. Gig said pertly. "I believe in rehabilitation”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Gigi could feel a mental cha-cha coming on”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Asking is for those without other ways of obtaining answers.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“There was a price to be paid for power, always. The only question was how steep the price was-and who was going to pay for it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“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 curved into us, into hollow places we don't know how to fill.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“The danger of a touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into skin.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I’m not wheezing.” Gigi gave herself a little pep talk. “I’m breathing in an almost musical manner.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“You cannot escape the reality of tomorrow by evading it today.

-Abraham Lincoln”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“The idea of this night ending hurt like a once-broken bone, long-healed, that ached every time the weather turned.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I don't have a bad side" Gigi said pertly. "I believe in rehabilitation”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“A Hawthorne and a girl who has every reason to stay away from Hawthornes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“It has taken me a lifetime to learn how to be weak.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Nobody, The Grandest Game

“Trying to write trick question backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Some people make mistakes, make amends, and move on." Grayson kept 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.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Her long-held memory of that kiss gave way to this kiss. And this kiss was everything.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“I bet…that no stranger has ever told you to smile.” She paused. “Perhaps I’m angry because women like me don’t get to be angry.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game