Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.”

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

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

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

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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “Believe me,” he said simply.”

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211. “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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212. “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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213. “We’re all liars sometimes.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “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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218. “Hawthornes aren’t supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.”

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219. “Oh God. I’m jealous of farts.”

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “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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223. “You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “Right. You’re Kali. Of course you’re planning a rescue mission. Stupid self-sacrifice is kind of your thing.”

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

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

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?”

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

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233. “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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234. “What fun is it playing by other people’s rules?”

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

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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “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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241. “Someone told me once that fortunes like this one–at a certain point, it’s not about the money, because you couldn’t spend billions if you tried It’s about the power.” I looked down. “And I just don’t think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.”

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242. “Let the rest of the players think I’m dealing with daddy issues. Hawthornes have grandaddy issues instead.”

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.”

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

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “Women shouldn’t have to fade into the background to be safe.”

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250. “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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