Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “We’re all liars sometimes.”

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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?”

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

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208. “Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes.”

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

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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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216. “Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying.”

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

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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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222. “Luckily for us, I’ve never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “Women shouldn’t have to fade into the background to be safe.”

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “Zeg maar tegen haar dat ik de dochter van mijn moeder ben.”

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

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230. “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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231. “I mean, technically, he wasn’t fired,” Emilia clarified. “He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill’s forte, and I guess anything’s a pretty big step down after the White House.”

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

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233. “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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234. “I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I’d realized.”

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235. “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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236. “What fun is it playing by other people’s rules?”

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237. “Xander dusted his hands off on his pants. “Secret passage,” he said, then attempted to dust off his pant legs with his hands. “This place is full of them.”

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238. “My grandmother gave an elegant little shrug. “People will think what they want. I daresay they always do.”

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239. “Dearest Avery, I’m sorry. – T. T. H.”

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240. “The Rooney girl never even should have been there!” Sheffield exploded. “She was a criminal. Her parents? Criminals. Cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles? Criminals.”

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241. “The word wrath jumped out at me. I thought about the alcohol and drugs we’d found in Toby’s room. I thought about the fire on Hawthorne Island and the way the press had lauded Toby as such an outstanding young man.”

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242. “But on a more visceral level: I could have died.”

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

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244. “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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245. “I can be careful,” I said, somewhat disgruntled. “Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces.”

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246. “This wasn’t instinct,” the man – Adam – countered. “This was guilt, Ivy.” “I’m not debating this with you.” “Evidence would suggest you are.”

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247. “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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248. “I used to play chess with him in the park,” I said. “Every morning.”

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249. “I’ve built three different companies from the ground up. You don’t achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.”

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

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