Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “So, to summarize,” Max said, “the dead uncle? Not dead, might be your father. Hot boys are also tragic, everyone wants a piece of your fine ash, and the woman who tried to have you killed is foxing your father?”

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102. “It’s not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It’s the good ones.”

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103. “And the girl who was there with them, Kaylie Rooney, she’d just gotten out of juvenile detention for arson. It was easier to deflect blame toward her than to try to pin it on nature.”

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104. “He gently traced the line of my jaw. “I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.” He thought he could protect me. He wanted to. He was touching me, and all I wanted was to let him. Let him protect me. Let him touch me.”

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105. “Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.”

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106. “It couldn’t be a coincidence that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne had left his fortune to a stranger who knew his “dead” son.”

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

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

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109. “There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”

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110. “Toby Hawthorne was a little punk.” That was Sheffield again. “No regard for the law, for his own limitations, for anyone but himself.”

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111. “Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes.”

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

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113. “There are a lot of ways to castrate a bull,” I said, my words deliberate and slow. “You can band the balls off, so they shrivel up and die. Or you can take a knife, and slide it just so.” I demonstrated with my free hand. “I grew up on a ranch. I know a lot about castrating bulls.”

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114. “Tell her,” I said, “that I am my mother’s daughter.”

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115. “Everything is something in Hawthorne House.”

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

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?”

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

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122. “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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123. “This family–we destroy everything we touch.”

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “I take it Asher called you?” “What’s your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “Tobias Hawthorne. Even dead, he was larger than life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “But this... us... ” He swallowed. “It can’t happen, Avery. I’ve seen the way Jameson looks at you.”

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

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141. “I came to see you,” Jameson told me. “Every day. The least you could have done was wake up while I was here, tragically backlit, unspeakably handsome, and waiting.”

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142. “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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143. “I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming – she’s not that girl anymore.” I’d been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.”

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144. “You don’t have to dance. Just brood in beat to the music.”

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

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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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