Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2. “I won’t say I told you so. But let’s just take a moment of silence to think about the fact that I was right.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3. “Rebecca’s been forbidden from seeing any of us.” Xander grimaced. “Her mom said that the Hawthorne family takes and takes. She said that we don’t play by any rules and don’t care who we hurt. She blames our family for Toby’s death.” “And Emily’s,” Grayson added roughly.”

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4. “Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.”

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5. “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.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

6. “Nothing hurts you unless you let it.”

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7. “Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”

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8. “We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina – or the knife.”

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9. “There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won’t take no for an answer.”

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10. “Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you. Forever and ever, no matter what.”

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11. “For all you know, this moment, this second, or the next, or the next, could be your destiny. It’s not about having plans. It’s about having purpose and being who, not what you want to be.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

12. “I am a human Rube Goldberg machine,” he said. “I do simple things in complicated ways.”

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13. “It doesn’t matter unless you let it matter.”

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14. “A very risky gamble.”

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15. “Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”

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16. “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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17. “The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”

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18. “That’s the thing, Mystery Girl. I don’t think I’m turning anything into a riddle. I don’t think I have to. You are a riddle, a puzzle, a game – my grandfather’s last.”

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19. “As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.”

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20. “Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”

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21. “Pretending something doesn’t matter doesn’t make it matter less.”

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22. “Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping in your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who’s there?”

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23. “Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?”

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24. “Better the devil you do know than the devil you don’t.”

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25. “Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”

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26. “I’d take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down.”

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27. “Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”

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28. “They were a broken, twisted mess before you got here, and they will be a broken, twisted mess once you’re gone.”

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29. “Born Smart. Born Tough. Born FBI.”

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30. “There wasn’t an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I’d die at them too.”

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31. “Lake, could you please stop sweet-talking the weapons? It’s kind of freaking me out.”

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32. “Some people do horrible things because of their beliefs, and some people choose beliefs that let them do horrible things.”

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33. “I’d promised Grayson secrecy, but this was Hawthorne House. Most of the occupants were far too clever for their own good – or anyone else’s.”

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34. “The things that haunt us, they make us human.”

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35. “Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.”

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36. “Grayson Hawthorne was arrogant enough to consider himself bulletproof – and honorable enough to see a promise through to its end.”

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37. “Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”

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38. “I told you kid... You’re not a player. You’re the glass ballerina – or the knife.”

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39. “Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.”

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40. “Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.”

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41. “It’s not just clothing. It’s a message. You’re not deciding what to wear. You’re deciding what story you want your image to tell. Are you the ingenue, young and sweet? Do you dress to this world of wealth and wonders like you were born to it, or do you want to walk the line: the same but different, young but full of steel?”

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42. “I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.”

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43. “Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.”

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44. “Studying mutilated bodies was routine. Talking to me – apparently, that was hard.”

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45. “You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn’t make it go away.”

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46. “Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.”

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47. “Grayson was Not Pleased – and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne.”

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48. “When the odds are bad, you change the rules.”

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49. “The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn’t buy him, those eyes probably did.”

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50. “Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.”

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