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Libby, Avery’s half-sister, is older than Avery by seven years. They have the same deadbeat father. When Libby was a child, her mother used to hit her. Later, Libby has an on-off relationship with a creepy, verbally abusive man named Drake. A nursing-home orderly with a goth dress sense but a cheerful personality, Libby is an empathetic “people pleaser” who insisted on becoming Avery’s legal guardian after Avery’s mother died. However, Libby and Avery frequently fight over Libby’s relationship with Drake; toward the novel’s beginning, Libby resumes her stalled relationship with Drake and allows him to move back into her apartment, which motivates Avery to sleep in her car rather than stay under the same roof as him. Libby accompanies Avery to the reading of Tobias Hawthorne’s will without telling Drake where they’re going. After Avery inherits Tobias’s fortune and his palatial Texan estate, Libby returns home to Connecticut in Avery’s new jet to collect Avery’s things. Drake, angry at Libby’s disappearance, wrenches the truth about Avery’s inheritance from her—and immediately begins speculating about what he and Libby could do with Avery’s new money. When Libby points out that the money is Avery’s, not theirs, Drake escalates to physical abuse, giving Libby a black eye. Libby immediately breaks up with him but has trouble cutting off all contact. When Libby returns to Texas with a black eye, Tobias Hawthorne’s oldest grandson Nash, who has a savior complex, becomes invested in learning about and protecting Libby. After Drake travels to Texas and tries to murder Avery, the police question Libby on the assumption that she might have been his accomplice; a horrified Libby apologizes to Avery for not blocking Drake’s texts.
Libby Quotes in The Inheritance Games
The The Inheritance Games quotes below are all either spoken by Libby or refer to Libby. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapters 1–10 Quotes
Right on cue, Libby’s on-again, off-again boyfriend—who had a fondness for punching walls and extolling his own virtues for not punching Libby—strolled in. He snagged a cupcake off the counter and let his gaze rake over me. “Hey, jailbait.”
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Chapters 11–20 Quotes
“Think about what this means. You’ll never have to worry about money again. You can buy whatever you want, do whatever you want. Those postcards you kept of your mom’s?” She leaned forward, touching her forehead against mine. “You can go anywhere. Imagine the possibilities.”
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“I haven’t a clue how you pulled this off, but I will find out. I see you now. I know what you are and what you’re capable of, and there is nothing I wouldn’t do to protect my family. Whatever game you’re playing here, no matter how long this con—I will find out the truth, and God help you when I do.”
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“Sometimes,” Jameson Hawthorne said, sounding strangely contemplative, “things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
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“My mom used to hit me. Only when she was really stressed, you know? She was a single mom, and things were hard. I could understand that. I tried to make everything easier.”
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Chapters 21–30 Quotes
I was a girl with a plan—but that plan had always been driven by practicalities. I’d picked a college major that would get me a solid job. The practical thing to do now was stay the course. […]
“Travel,” I blurted out. “I’ve always wanted to travel.”
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“I don’t need to tell you that most lottery winners find their existence made miserable as they drown in requests and demands from family and friends. You are blessedly short on both. Libby, however, is another matter.”
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Libby Character Timeline in The Inheritance Games
The timeline below shows where the character Libby appears in The Inheritance Games. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapters 1–10
Chapter 2. When Avery gets home from work that evening, her half-sister Libby, who is seven years older, asks about her day. Avery insists on giving Libby her...
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Chapter 4. The next day at school, Avery is called into the office. Libby’s there—as is a boy in a fancy suit not much older than Avery. The boy...
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Grayson leaves so Libby and Avery can talk. Avery searches Tobias Hawthorne on her phone and finds a headline:...
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...feels that her travel dreams have come much closer. In the first-class cabin, she and Libby take a selfie. When Libby asks Avery not to put the selfie online, Avery realizes...
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A suited young woman meets Avery and Libby in the airport. She introduces herself as Alisa Ortega, Avery’s liaison to Tobias’s law firm....
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...Irritated, Avery tells her that won’t happen. Inside the house’s gigantic foyer, Grayson greets Avery, Libby, and Alisa and offers to take their coats. As Grayson is putting Libby’s away, a...
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Chapter 7. As an awestruck Libby takes photos of the house, Xander asks whether she likes roller coasters and leads her...
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Chapter 8. Avery, Grayson, Libby, and Skye walk to the Great Room, where the will is going to be read....
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Chapters 11–20
Chapter 11. Avery sprints outside. Libby runs after her and tells her she’s crazy for trying to refuse the money, reminding...
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Oren drives Avery and Libby to a very nice hotel. Alisa meets them in the lobby, announces that she’s now...
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When Libby worries aloud that the Hawthornes will murder Avery, Oren predicts that the Hawthorne men would...
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...“target” for journalists, stalkers, and kidnappers—so they need to discuss security. When Avery asks where Libby is, Alisa explains that Libby’s on Avery’s new plane, going to get her own and...
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When Libby returns, she has a black eye. Avery asks Alisa whether the law firm has a...
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Chapter 14. Alisa makes some calls and learns that Libby’s “boyfriend” (Drake) told the paparazzi. Libby whispers, “My ex.” As Libby starts apologizing, Avery pictures...
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When Avery, Libby, Alisa, and Oren return to Hawthorne House, the front door is locked. Alisa goes around...
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...have the same turning “mechanism”—except one. She uses it to unlock the front door. When Libby asks how Avery found the right one, Jameson says through the intercom that disparate-seeming phenomena...
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...it’s not like Alisa is “consortin’ with the enemy”—Tobias wanted Avery to have everything. When Libby pipes up that Avery has done nothing wrong, Nash spots Libby’s black eye and asks...
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Avery hears Libby call her name. She calls back, and Libby enters the office. Avery, unavoidably focused on...
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Then Libby admits that she overheard Zara’s husband talking about doing a DNA test on Avery. If...
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Chapters 21–30
Chapter 29. After Avery returns to her rooms, Libby appears with a laptop, tablet, and other goodies that Alisa encouraged Libby to buy for...
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Alisa, changing the subject, says that they need to keep Libby on the estate and away from the paparazzi for the foreseeable future. When Avery angrily...
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Chapters 31–40
...Alisa says she’ll get Avery in to see it—once Avery has seen her stylists. As Libby spectates, a female stylist offers Avery three wardrobe choices: “classic,” “natural,” or “preppy with an...
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...stomach “classic” or “natural.” Once the stylists have done her hair and makeup, she asks Libby’s opinion, only to see Libby staring “deer-in-the-headlights” at her phone. Avery infers that Drake is...
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Chapters 41–50
...as Westbrook, another middle name. Grayson interrupts her thoughts by telling her Nash called about Libby.
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...car with Oren, calls Alisa, and asks about Drake. When Alisa says that Avery and Libby have temporary restraining orders against him, Avery asks why he’s outside Hawthorne house texting Libby...
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Chapter 44. Avery goes to the kitchen, where Libby is frantically baking while Nash watches. When Nash tells Avery that Libby has been baking...
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...Mellie, and Mellie stares at her like she’s crazy. Avery, uncomfortable, goes to commiserate with Libby, but when she approaches Libby’s slightly open door, she sees Nash asleep on Libby’s ottoman....
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Chapters 51–60
...whether he means Mellie. When Oren asks about Mellie, Avery explains about the scene outside Libby’s room. Then they reach Hawthorne House, where Alisa is waiting. When Avery explodes at Alisa,...
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...the candlestick—but gets Oren instead. Oren sweeps the passage and sends Avery to sleep in Libby’s room, which does not have a secret passage in it. After crawling into bed with...
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...mouths shut, and Avery herself should pretend she was never shot at. Avery asks whether Libby’s safe with the Hawthornes. Oren replies that Libby’s security believes so. Avery concludes that only...
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Avery goes to the dining room, where she finds Libby in a corner, Nash protectively near her. Zara, Zara’s husband, Xander, and Nan are scattered...
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Chapters 61–70
Chapter 61. Avery decides to stay home from school that day. She wants to ask Libby about Drake’s texts, but instead she asks whether Libby will join her search for a...
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Chapter 62. Outside the spa, Libby asks what the incident was. Oren admits that someone shot at Avery. When Libby asks...
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Libby snaps that she doesn’t want a new phone—their father has her current number. Avery, who...
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Nash enters the room, and Nan leaves. When Nash asks whether Avery told Libby that Avery was skipping school, Avery asks what Nash is doing with Libby. Nash, tickled,...
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...Avery’s near-shooting in the car with him. After he notes that the police will question Libby, Avery asks why, and Alisa apologetically explains that someone would have had to sneak the...
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...Nash comes out and angrily asks Alisa why he just heard that the police took Libby. When Alisa points out that Libby didn’t have to leave with the police unless she...
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...when asked rude, intrusive questions. Avery manages not to respond until the professional asks about Libby and Drake, at which point Avery heatedly denies that Libby was involved in Drake’s attack...
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Chapters 71–80
Chapter 71. While Avery is getting styled for the gala in her bedroom, a tearstained Libby rushes in, hugs her, and apologizes. For a moment, Avery is terrified. Then Libby says...
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...her. She asks about the police interrogation of Drake. Oren tells her that Drake’s story—that Libby let him in through the front gate—is contradicted by the house’s security cameras. Oren believes...
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...Avery hiding. Avery tells Alisa she’ll finish the event only if Alisa promises to help Libby regardless of Alisa’s issues with Nash. Alisa promises. At the event dinner, Alisa makes Avery...
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Chapters 81–Epilogue
...father’s name highlighted, as well as many surveillance photos of Avery, including of her with Libby and her homeless friend Harry. Avery concludes that Tobias understood her and chose her for...
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...to buy Max’s whole family a luxurious trip to Australia. Then she goes to find Libby, who is with Nan in the music room listening to the self-playing piano. Libby, seeing...
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