Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Tell her,” I said, “that I am my mother’s daughter.”

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102. “Tempting fate was one thing; baiting Pack Justice was entirely another.”

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103. “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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104. “I’m not the glass ballerina,” I said firmly. “I’m not going to shatter.”

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105. “When did I become the enemy here? I have only ever done what the old man wanted me to do.” She spoke like those words were being physically torn out of her. “Do you have any idea what that’s cost me?”

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106. “Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes.”

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107. “Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.”

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108. “Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?”

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109. “Je bent mijn kind... Van mij, Tess... Ik ben je zus niet... Nooit je zus geweest. – Ivy.”

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110. “It would be shame,” Jameson commented, “if we were related.”

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111. “I could see, already, how this was going to end. “You’ll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me,” I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, “I’ll have checkmate in two.”

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112. “I take it Asher called you?” “What’s your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?”

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113. “Everything is something in Hawthorne House.”

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114. “Toby hadn’t written a message on the wall of his bedroom. He’d written tens of thousands of words across all the walls in the suite. Toby Hawthorne had kept a diary. His whole life was documented on the walls of his wing of Hawthorne House. He couldn’t have been more than seven or eight when he’d started writing.”

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115. “Ricky Grambs was a deadbeat. He hadn’t even cared enough to pick up the phone when my mother died. If it had been left up to him, I would have gone into foster care. Staring at Ricky’s signature, I willed Tobias Hawthorne’s reasoning in highlighting it to become clear.”

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116. “I stepped into the secret passageway to find Jameson waiting for me. “Fancy meeting you here, Heiress.” “You,” I told him, “are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.”

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117. “This family–we destroy everything we touch.”

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118. “What do you want me to do, Adam?” my sister asked finally, her voice soft enough now that I had to strain to hear. “Things were bad in Montana. I’m not sending her back, and I am not shipping her off to some boarding school. And don’t give me that look – you were the one who told me to bring her here three years ago!”

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119. “Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”

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120. “She sought Sheffield Grayson out, Avery. The man blamed our family for his nephew’s death. He slept with her out of spite. God knows why Skye did it, but I was the result.”

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121. “Well, my other suggestion involves preemptively whacking the entire Hawthorne family, and I was afraid you’d take that as a euphemism.”

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122. “Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”

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123. “You want power-either because you’ve already had a taste of it and want more, or because you’ve been made to feel powerless for too long.”

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124. “I sense that the chocolate chips have hit the fan.”

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125. “A person couldn’t be worthy of billions. It wasn’t possible – not for anyone, and definitely not for me.”

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126. “Why had the billionaire disinherited his entire family after the fire on Hawthorne Island? Why use his will to point to what had happened there, when he’d apparently paid good money to cover it up?”

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127. “Let’s call it a school project on the Pierce piece.” I bared my teeth in something vaguely resembling a smile. “You cited an anonymous source, saying that the decision was all but made. I’m wondering what made you think this information was legit.”

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128. “She started the fire. That was the story the press ran with, without coming right out and saying the words. Three promising young men, one troubled young woman. A party that spun out of control. Everything, engulfed in flames. Kaylie was the one the press blamed.”

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129. “When you’re hurting, you hurt yourself.”

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130. “But this... us... ” He swallowed. “It can’t happen, Avery. I’ve seen the way Jameson looks at you.”

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131. “I looked down at my hands, unable to meet her eyes. My wrists were still angry and red. The raw skin looked how I felt.”

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132. “You owe me a favor. – Emilia.”

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133. “Adam’s blue eyes flicked briefly over to mine as he directed me to turn onto a major street. Once he was satisfied that I could, in fact, turn without causing my car – or any car in the near vicinity – to explode, he allowed himself to actually converse. “You don’t trust people?” “Not to hit my car, or not to screw up my life?” “Either.” That seemed like more of an answer than a question, so I didn’t reply.”

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134. “I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing myself off to it, I pulled. I pulled at it and I thrust it toward Chase.”

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135. “Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most.”

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136. “Don’t be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.”

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137. “Little grudge?” I repeated. The last time I’d been this close to Thea, she had admitted to setting me up to attend my debut in Texas society dressed like a dead girl. “You play mind games. And Rebecca almost got me killed!”

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

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139. “Funny thing about dying,” Bales said, his voice contemplative. “You don’t have much to lose.”

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140. “Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. “We should go,” she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. “I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.”

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141. “You hacked the FBI?” I said incredulously. “And Interpol,” Sloane replied brightly. “And you’ll never guess what I found.”

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142. “Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.”

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143. “Don’t,” Judd told her sharply. “Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”

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144. “Right.”... “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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145. “I’d tell you that was pretty much impossible,” Asher replied, “but your Tess Kendrick. My spider senses tell me that impossible is kind of your thing.”

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146. “It didn’t matter if my ribs hurt. It didn’t matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora’s fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn’t afford to be weak or human at a time like this.”

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147. “I don’t need your permission to search your locker.” The headmaster’s tone drew my attention back in his direction. This, I inferred from the rise in volume, was supposed to be the voice of authority. If you didn’t need my permission, I thought, then why did you ask for it?”

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148. “That was the first time I’d said that last bit out loud. Toby Hawthorne loved my mother. She loved him. It had been an epic, seaside kind of love. Literally. Just knowing that made me feel like I’d been lying to myself every time I’d pretended that I didn’t have feelings, that things didn’t have to be messy.”

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149. “The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.”

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150. “Darryl likes codes,” Skylar explained. “A few weeks ago, I asked him what someone might hypothetically need to break into a supercomputer. He hypothetically made me this.”

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