Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “I understand you’ve been spending some time in the company of my son.” Adam’s father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them – like he knew what you’d had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.”

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203. “Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”

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204. “Oh God, Tessie... That is my daughter... And the next person who tries to get between my and my daughter is going to rue their existence on this earth... Every secret you’ve been keeping will find its way out. Every decision you make will be questioned. You will be audited, investigated, and transferred to the most hellish nightmare of a desk job I can find. Now, get out of my way. – Ivy.”

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205. “Her name was Emily,” he repeated. “And she wasn’t just a girl.”

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206. “I smiled half a smile at her puppy antics, wondering what it would be like to be able to join her, to shed my human skin and the confines that went with it and just live in the moment as a wolf. What would I look like with four legs and fur – would I be light-colored like Katie, or a darker timber, like Dev? I wondered if I would be velvet black with ice-blue eyes, like Chase.”

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207. “Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister’s choice not to know me.”

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208. “We’re all liars sometimes.”

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209. “Asher waved away my words, unconcerned. “If Emilia was predisposed to fratricide, I wouldn’t have made it past kindergarten,” he said. “I am, however, somewhat concerned that she might kill you.”

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210. “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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211. “She had my smile, I thought, forcing myself to stare masochistically at the curve of her lips. On the heels of that crippling thought came a second one. Ivy knew Adam when she was young.”

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212. “In mijn ervaring,′ zei Asher bedachtzaam, ‘betekent “dat ga ik echt niet voor jou doen, Asher” meestal “ik wacht op een beter aanbod”.”

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213. “What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?”

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214. “When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true – it hurts.”

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215. “Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.”

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216. “Mijn zus woont hier,′ zei ik tegen hem. ‘Lichtbruin haar, ongeveer zo groot? Zit binnen te praten met de First Lady, denk ik?”

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217. “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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218. “It was a truth universally acknowledged that a person in want of plastic baggies need only look in the Taft family kitchen. Aunt Olivia was the queen of Ziplocs. She’d taken over Lillian’s cabinets and had entire drawers dedicated to them – every size, every type, a year’s supply of each at least.”

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219. “Did I want to talk about the fact that I’d disobeyed the pack? That Callum had betrayed me, over and over again; that every day, he’d let me go on believing one thing when reality was another? Did I want to talk about the fact that together, Callum and I had destroyed Ali’s marriage, torn my family apart, and brought life to a screeching halt?”

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220. “Jameson smiled. It was his slow, dangerous, heady smile, designed to elicit a reaction. I didn’t give him one.”

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221. “But after reading even just a couple of my mom’s postcards? It was getting harder to ignore Grayson’s presence beside me, harder not to think about Jameson. My eyes stung, even though there was zero reason for me to be crying.”

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222. “Avery Grambs is not the result of infidelity on the part of our father, who was faithful to his beloved wife, our mother, for the entirety of their marriage.”

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223. “If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.”

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224. “I told you that I was considering a mission trip. I am here to bring the love of God to these poor, backward billionaires. It’s an ugly job, but someone’s got to do it.”

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225. “Tess,” I said. For a moment, Emilia and I studied each other. She was tall, with strawberry-blond hair and eyes that walked the line between green and blue. She wore almost no makeup, except for a light gloss on her lips. “So you’re Ivy Kendrick’s sister,” she said finally. “I thought you’d be taller.” “I’ll get right to work on that.” Emilia cracked a very small smile.”

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226. “Most people thought that training animals was about obedience and control. But in reality, the center of any search and rescue training program was play. For the dog, searching was a game. Animals who had a strong play drive would keep playing indefinitely – through ice and snow, over hard terrain, for hours upon hours – until the game was won. Until they found their target.”

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227. “Callum’s basement had always been off-limits to me, and I wasn’t dumb enough to believe the restriction was in place because that was where he hid my Christmas presents.”

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

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229. “Luckily for us, I’ve never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”

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230. “Now, if that’s everything, I have an empire to build and a girl to chase.”

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231. “Xander smiled, and something about it made me want to cry. “Do you think it’s okay,” he said, sounding younger than I’d ever heard him, “that I loved playing those Saturday morning games? Loved growing up here? Loved the great and terrible Tobias Hawthorne?”

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232. “I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every other morning as I went from dispassionately watching my body heal to wondering if this time, I might have pushed things too far.”

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233. “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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234. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” Mrs. Laughlin said fiercely. “Playing with an old woman’s feelings like that. And dragging the boys into whatever you were doing in Toby’s wing? It’s cruel is what it is.”

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235. “I am an expert at not wanting to want things.” I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he’d lowered his. “But I’m starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I’m becoming – she’s not that girl anymore.”

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236. “Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying.”

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237. “I told Vivvie what the person who’d answered had said, verbatim.”

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238. “Rage simmered in the pit of my stomach – rage that my deadbeat of a father would have dared to talk to the press, rage that someone had taped this article to the back of my locker door.”

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

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240. “What the elf, Avery? What the everlasting mothing-foxing elf is going on there?”

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241. “But now all I could think about was that, yes, Harry used to scowl when I outmaneuvered him on the chess board, but his eyes had gleamed. He’d called me princess and horrible girl, and I’d called him old man.”

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242. “I’m not your penance, Grayson Hawthorne.”

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243. “Women shouldn’t have to fade into the background to be safe.”

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244. “Ready.” Libby looked down at the water balloons she held in each hand–and at her twin tattoos: SURVIVOR on one wrist, and on the other... TRUST.”

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

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246. “Michael cut in, “I’ll completely ignore it and go next. Best part of my week: I annoyed six out of seven of our instructors. Worst part of my week: the seventh is proving a deceptively hard nut to crack.”

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247. “Nash. Grayson. Jameson. Xander.” He said their names one at a time. “You were the clay, and I was the sculptor, and it has been the joy and honor of my life to make you better men than I will ever be. Men who may curse my name but will never forget it.”

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248. “Zeg maar tegen haar dat ik de dochter van mijn moeder ben.”

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249. “Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.”

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250. “My mind is more like a roller coaster inside a labyrinth buried in an M. C. Escher painting that is riding on another roller coaster.”

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