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 know how to fill.

Sometimes, in the games that matter most, the only way to really play is to live.

Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one.

The danger of touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into the skin

Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies.

Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks.” - Lyra Kane (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.

I know you. Your voice." The word caught in his throat "I recognize your voice

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.

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

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.

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.

Gigi could feel a mental cha-cha coming on

I don't have a bad side. Gig said pertly. "I believe in rehabilitation

Asking is for those without other ways of obtaining answers.

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.

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.

The danger of a touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into skin.

I’m not wheezing.” Gigi gave herself a little pep talk. “I’m breathing in an almost musical manner.

You cannot escape the reality of tomorrow by evading it today. -Abraham Lincoln

The idea of this night ending hurt like a once-broken bone, long-healed, that ached every time the weather turned.

I don't have a bad side" Gigi said pertly. "I believe in rehabilitation

A Hawthorne and a girl who has every reason to stay away from Hawthornes.

Trying to write trick question backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks

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.

Her long-held memory of that kiss gave way to this kiss. And this kiss was everything.

It has taken me a lifetime to learn how to be weak.

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.