Glorious Rivals Quotes

“You are no one's weapon, Lyra," Grayson said, his tone making it perfectly clear just how rarely he lost arguments of any kind, "bomb or otherwise, and you are certainly not a pawn."
"Then what am I?" Lyra retorted, her gaze returning to his like a homing missile.
"You are lethal," Grayson said quietly, "in the best possible way.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Was that a suggestion,” Grayson said, “or an order?” Lyra arched a brow. “Do you take orders?” “From you?” Grayson gave her a look. “Absolutely.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“I don’t need your jacket,” Lyra told Grayson. “Perhaps I need to give it to you,” Grayson suggested. “Chivalry. It’s a coping mechanism.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“there were two kinds of optimists in the world: those who hoped and those who madly persevered.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“She got a nickname for you yet?” Nash cocked a brow. Grayson’s lips twitched. “I’m pretty sure it’s asshole.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Back up to the part where you got kidnapped,” Savannah said. “Twice.” “And I didn’t even get a T-shirt,” Gigi quipped.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“This,” Grayson said again, “is worth fighting for.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Grayson Hawthorne looked like something out of a dream, the kind you ached for from the moment you opened your eyes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“You don’t fall,” he said again, a certain intensity in those words. “I do.” It couldn’t have been clearer to Lyra that he wasn’t talking about balance. “I fall, Lyra.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“One of these days,” Grayson said beside her in the dark, “you are going to let me give you my jacket.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“To Grayson, his mysterious uncle would have been little more than a stranger were it not for Avery, for the fact that Toby loved her like a daughter because he’d loved Avery’s mother in that undying, infinite, Hawthorne kind of way.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Family means you’d die for the person, and that you know damn well that they’d die for you. It means that no matter how lost you feel, no matter how dark things get, on some level, you know that there is a place and people with whom you belong.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Libby Grambs—Libby Hawthorne, now—was Nash’s wife. Grayson lips quirked upward just thinking about his sister-in-law and the babies she was carrying. “How is Libby?” “Full of cravings. A little cranky.” Nash grinned. “Wholly incandescent.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“The group you’re after—all I can tell you is that they believe that some situations require a gently guiding hand and others a gilded blade.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“... est unus ex nobis. Nos defendant eius.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Power came, always, at a cost. The only question was what the price was—and who was going to pay it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“No Hawthorne has ever fallen for a woman who did not, on occasion, terrify him.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“You are a hazard to yourself.” “Thank you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“That’s it, subconscious,” she declared. “You’re in time-out.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Kiss me,” Lyra said, “one last time.” “I assure you,” Grayson replied, “it will not be.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Some secrets are carved into your bones,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“What Rohan heard Avery saying was: It would be unfortunate if any player were to lose their watch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Men ruin things,” Odette said finally. “Not all of them. Not all the time. But often enough—”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Maybe if I had learned to love differently, I could have loved her better. I certainly couldn't of loved her more.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Touching her felt right.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“There’s a difference between seeing and perceiving,” Grayson said. “Our minds have a tendency to fill in gaps. Sometimes, we see things that aren’t there, and sometimes, you can look right at something and miss it all the same.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Lyra zeroed in on the keychain, taking in its shape. She wasn’t the only one. “Is that a narwhal giving an axolotl a piggyback ride?” Brady said, frowning. “Let me guess.” Lyra met Grayson’s eyes through their masks. “This is Xander’s boat.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Sometimes,” she said, repeating back what Avery had said to her the night before, “in the games that matter most, the only way to really play is to live.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“Kissing Grayson Hawthorne felt like stepping out of time. Nothing else existed. Not the ground beneath Lyra’s feet. Not the ruins or the cliffs. Just this. Every place their bodies touched. His lips and hers. A jagged breath—this.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“There are always three.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals