Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You owe me a favor. – Emilia.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

152. “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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153. “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.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

154. “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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155. “Right.”... “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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

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

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160. “When you lose the remote control to your television, four percent of the time it ends up in the freezer!” Sloane blurted out loudly.”

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

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

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “I’ll have you know that most celebrity sites rank me as the second-hottest Hawthorne.” -Jameson.”

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “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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180. “We just hadn’t figured on Fighting life.”

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “It always came down to power and control – who had them, who didn’t, who would lose them first.”

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “Home is the people who love you.”

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188. “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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189. “She is one of us. We protect her.”

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190. “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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191. “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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192. “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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193. “Her name was Emily,” he repeated. “And she wasn’t just a girl.”

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194. “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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195. “If I were a boy,” Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, “people would just call me driven.” “Thea.” Constantine frowned at her. “Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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196. “It’s not the things you can’t find that haunt you. It’s when you choose not to look.”

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197. “You aren’t the enemy,” Henry said, dropping his arm to his side once more and taking a step back. “That doesn’t mean our goals are aligned.”

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

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes