Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. “There are fourteen varieties of hugs,” she said. “This is one of them.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

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

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

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

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

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57. “I’d tell you that you can’t stay mad forever,” Ivy commented, “but I’m pretty sure you’d take that as a challenge.”

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58. “He was arrogant and awful and had spent the first week of our acquaintance dead set on making my life hell. He was still half in love with Emily Laughlin. But from the first moment I’d seen him, looking away had been nearly impossible. And at the end of the day, he’d chosen me. Over family. Over his mother.”

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59. “Is it still a lie,” Jameson asked loftily, “if you’re masking what matters, but what you’re saying is technically true?”

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60. “You’re honorable, Avery Kylie Grambs. Once you were with me, you were with me. You love me, scars and all. I know that, Heiress. I do.”

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61. “Life in the fast lane,” Michael’s reply. “You have to adjust for inflation.”

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62. “Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”

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63. “I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.”

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64. “No matter how sharp its edges, no knife could hold a candle to fang and claw.”

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65. “Your grandfather was a piece of work,” I told Xander. He picked up a fourth scone. “I agree. In his honor, I eat this scone.” He did just that.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

66. “Allow me to get this straight,” Zara said, staring past Jameson and straight to me. “You, to whom my father left virtually everything, want the one and only thing he left to me?”

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67. “It might feel better to give to someone you know than a stranger, or to donate to an organization whose story brings a tear to your eye, but that’s your brain playing tricks on you. The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.”

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68. “Jameson was close to me now. Too close. Every one of the Hawthorne boys was magnetic. Larger than life. They had an effect on people – and Jameson was very good at using that to get what he wanted. He wants something from me now.”

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69. “I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust – I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.”

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70. “Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.”

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71. “I was comfortable with silence, comfortable with letting questions go unanswered. Sometimes it was my best tool for making a person say more.”

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72. “Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”

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73. “You don’t have to kiss me now. You don’t have to love me now, Heiress. But when you’re ready... When you’re ready, if you’re ever ready, if it’s going to be me – just flip that disk. Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”

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74. “I understand now. The three of you share a single iota of common sense. I’m just a little unclear on which one of you has custody of it now.”

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75. “I don’t want to explain to you what I don’t want to explain to you.”

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76. “She’s delightfully Machiavellian, and she hates to lose.” Xander was absolutely unapologetic. “I like what that does to my odds.”

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77. “It figured – the almost invincible girl gets hurt, and they call a vet.”

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78. “The next thing I knew, she was gone.”

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79. “I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”

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80. “Asher smiled beatifically, as if he’d been waiting his whole life for someone to ask just that question. “How would you feel about some Mentos and Diet Coke?”

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81. “But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need – they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.”

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82. “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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83. “I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.”

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84. “Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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85. “I wondered if this was what Pandora had felt like the moment she opened the box.”

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86. “Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.”

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87. “Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He’s been looking for something. He’s been looking for it since the day he was born.”

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88. “He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”

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89. “You don’t have to kiss me. You don’t even have to like me, Heiress, but please don’t make me do this alone.”

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90. “Nash Hawthorne would probably tip his cowboy hat to Death herself.”

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91. “I was born ready!” Xander brandished his shield. He smiled a very Xander Hawthorne smile, then let his bravado falter. “But before we go, group hug?”

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92. “The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.”

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93. “I’m a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I’m no stranger to being hated.”

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94. “Home isn’t a place, Cassie.′ The memory crept up on me. ‘Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.”

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95. “I will always protect you” he told me, his jaw tight, his eyes shadowed. “You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I’ll help you with the foundation. I’ll teach you what you need to know to take this life like you were born to it. But this... us... ” He swallowed. “It can’t happen, Avery. I’ve seen the way Jamerson looks at you.”

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96. “In the past six weeks, I’d been shot at, blown up, kidnapped, and paraded around as the living, breathing embodiment of Cinderella stories. To the world, I was a scandal, a mystery, a curiosity, a fantasy.”

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97. “The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. “Invest. Cultivate. Create.”

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98. “And that was why I was in these tunnels with Jameson Hawthorne. That was why he’d started looking at me like I was a mystery again, a puzzle that he, and only he, could solve.”

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99. “Thea isn’t a girl. She’s a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.”

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100. “Giving money to individuals does little.” “It does a lot,” I said quietly, “for those people.”

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