Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You’re a billionaire now. You have an entire team of people to protect you. The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It’s okay to want things.” Max turned off the shower. “It’s okay to go after what you want.”

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152. “Tobias Hawthorne. Even dead, he was larger than life.”

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153. “It occurred to me then to wonder how much Vivvie knew. Telling her – about Ivy, about Kostas, about what had happened to me – seemed insurmountable.”

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154. “You think I didn’t fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.”

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155. “Asher is de aardige helft. Hij is degene die iedereen aardig vindt. Ik ben degene die dingen voor elkaar krijgt. – Emilia.”

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156. “Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.”

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157. “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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158. “She’d let me in, and for the first time, I actually wanted to do the same, to tell someone the truth. That I wasn’t normal. That I wasn’t human.”

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159. “Over the next hour and a half, I came to the conclusion that Emilia Rhodes was either the devil incarnate or the second coming of Coco Chanel.”

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160. “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.”

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161. “Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.”

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162. “But for the record, little sis, you’re a minor, and I’m still your legal guardian. The next time someone tries to shoot you, I damn well want to know.”

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163. “He says with patented Smirk Number Three.” Devon shook his head and made a sound somwhere in the neighborhood of tsk-tsk. “You’re getting rusty, Bronwyn. That was clearly Smirk Number Two: sardonic with a side of wit.”

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164. “What about what other people deserve?” I asked vehemently. “Did my mother deserve to die without you there? Did she deserve to spend my entire life in love with a ghost?” “Hannah deserved the world.” “So why didn’t you give it to her?” I asked. “Why was punishing yourself more important than what she wanted?”

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165. “When you were a kid,” he continued, his voice even and low, “Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.”

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166. “Ivy gave the woman’s hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. “What do you need?” she asked. “We’re holding up.” That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.”

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167. “Ivy met me at the bottom of the steps. Her light brown hair was loosely coiffed at the nape of her neck. She wore a formfitting blazer as comfortably as most people wore sweatshirts. Even her jeans looked expensive. If she saw through my innocent act, she didn’t call me on it. “Good,” she said. “You’re up.”

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168. “This time,” Oren said. “Skye has already tried to have you killed once. Both of them are threats. I suggest we let them cool their heels in prison at least until your emancipation goes through.” Once I was legally an adult, once I could write my own will, Ricky and Skye would stand to gain nothing by my death.”

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169. “I don’t want to be alone,” I whispered. The second those words left my mouth, Vivvie flew across the room. She hugged me like hugging was a contact sport.”

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170. “This was the Grayson I’d met weeks ago: dripping power and well aware that he could come out on top in any battle. He didn’t make threats, because he didn’t have to.”

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171. “Someone tried to kill me, and I’m going swimming. I’m going swimming, because it doesn’t matter. I’m going swimming, because I don’t matter. I’m going swimming, because that’s what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.”

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172. “You do what you can,” he said, after seconds of silence had stretched to a minute, “to make sure your kids are safe. From the second they’re born... ” He stared at the lines of Nightshade’s face, the ordinariness of it. “You want to protect them. From every skinned knee, from hurt feelings and punk kids who push smaller ones into the dirt, form the worst parts of yourself and the worst parts of this world.”

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173. “Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes,” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger – meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.”

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174. “Home is the people who love you.”

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175. “I take it you’re Michael,” she said. “The emotion reader with the attitude problem who’s continually doing stupid things for girls.” “That’s hardly a fair assessment,” Michael replied. “I do plenty of stupid things that aren’t for girls, too.”

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176. “No. I couldn’t do this, couldn’t go down that rabbit hole. Ivy’s going to be fine. I’ll hate her forever if something happens to her. She’s going to be fine.”

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177. “We just hadn’t figured on Fighting life.”

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178. “Whoever triggered the explosion must have mistimed things. If you’d been two steps closer, you would have died.” His voice got tighter. “Two of my men didn’t make it.” Devastating guilt drilled through me, a needle-thin icicle straight to the heart. I felt heavy and numb. “I’m sorry.”

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179. “Skye set her glass down. “Don’t you dare rewrite history. What do you think it was like for me? Son after son – and every single one of you preferred my father.”

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180. “Et tu, Henry?” Asher held a hand to his chest. Henry didn’t bat an eye. He was clearly used to the dramatics.”

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181. “The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy’s drive. Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle.”

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182. “Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.”

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183. “Bodie’s phone rang. Ivy. I knew it was her, the way you know the protagonist of a horror movie really shouldn’t go down into that basement. Bodie took the call, then nodded at me to go back inside.”

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184. “Blend in. don’t make waves. Don’t look up.′ That was the mantra I lived by. But not today.”

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185. “Ms. Kendrick, are you listening to me?” Headmaster Raleigh asked. Not in the least. “Yes, sir.” The sir seemed to appease him somewhat.”

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186. “Mr. Collins shook his head. “Stay off the roof,” he ordered. Then he paused. “Stay off all the roofs.” The fact that he felt he had to make that clarification told me a great deal about Asher Rhodes.”

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187. “Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn’t at all.”

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

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189. “My client,” the lawyer said forcefully, “is pleading the Fifth.”

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190. “Across from us, Lia eyed our hands and then brought her own to her forehead in a melodramatic motion. “I’m a dark and angsty profiler,” she intoned. “No,” she countered in a falsetto, bringing her other hand up, “I’m a dark and angsty profiler. Ours is a star-crossed love.”

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191. “You look like someone who’s about to do something highly inadvisable. And God knows, if there’s something inadvisable going on, I want in.”

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192. “Hands reached past me to turn on the faucet. I should have jumped. I should have panicked. But somehow, my body relaxed into the person behind me.”

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193. “I sunk into velvety nothingness. It caressed my skin, lapped at my temples, the nape of my neck. It circled me like smoke, its touch light, but all consuming. And just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard the voice. ‘Hello, Kali. I’m Zev.”

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194. “She is one of us. We protect her.”

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195. “Is that your professional take on the situation?” I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn’t worth yelling over. It wasn’t even worth a heated whisper.”

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196. “Believe me,” he said simply.”

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197. “Where is that incredible promise I hear my colleagues chatting about in the teachers’ lounge?” Mr. Simpson asked Ryan facetiously. “You have a lot of fans at this school, Mr. Washburn. Surely they can’t all be mistaken about your intellectual capacity. Perhaps the emancipation of every enslaved human being in this country is simply not significant enough to merit a student of your remarkable caliber taking note of the date?”

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198. “You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.”

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199. “Right. You’re Kali. Of course you’re planning a rescue mission. Stupid self-sacrifice is kind of your thing.”

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200. “Oh God. I’m jealous of farts.”

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