Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I moved on from Emily,” he said. “Gray didn’t. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

302. “So take whatever time you need. Figure out how you feel. Figure out if Dean makes you feel the way I do, if he’ll ever let you in, and if you want him to, because the next time my lips touch yours, the next time your hands are buried in my hair – the only person you’re going to be thinking about is me.”

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303. “Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone’s world that she couldn’t even love her own children, for fear they wouldn’t love her back enough.”

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304. “Your son,” I said, “impregnated an underage girl, then got physical with her when she had the audacity to be devastated at the realization that he’d just been using her to get close enough to make a move against Tobias Hawthorne.”

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305. “Screw Ian. Jameson didn’t need Ian. It was – now and always – Jameson and Avery against the world.”

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306. “Ik kan natuurlijk wel zeggen dat je niet altijd boos op me kunt blijven, maar jou kennende zou je dat als een uitdaging zien. – Ivy.”

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307. “This was a different Eve. Gone were the layers of self-protection, the vulnerability, the raw emotion – all of it. “You helped Blake abduct Toby, didn’t you?” I said, certainty washing over me like a wave of heat. “I wouldn’t have had to,” Eve replied, her tone smooth and hard, “if Toby had opened up. If he’d just agreed to bring me here. But he wouldn’t.”

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308. “Hate me, if you can, for all the reasons I deserve it. But don’t hate me for leaving while you sleep. I knew you wouldn’t let me go, and I cannot bear to say good-bye.”

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309. “Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.”

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310. “Grayson thinks you’re some master manipulator. My aunt is convinced you must have Hawthorne blood. But I think you’re the old man’s final riddle – one last puzzle to be solved.” He took another step, bringing the two of us that much closer. “He chose you for a reason, Avery. You’re special, and I think he wanted us – wanted me – to figure out why.”

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311. “Where angels fear to tread, have your fun instead.” Rohan’s voice was almost musical, but there was something dark in his tone. A promise. One that Jameson suspected that men in Rohan’s position had been making for centuries. “But be warned: The house always wins.”

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312. “A few months ago, she’d gotten a tattoo, a single word inked from wrist bone to wrist bone, just under the heel of her hand. SURVIVOR.”

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313. “I knew better than to put any confidence in the assurances of good-looking guys.”

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314. “You know what they say about baptisms and fire.”

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315. “Don’t you know by now, Heiress? I never get caught.”

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316. “Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.”

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317. “Because this was our game – yours and mine – before it was anyone else’s. Because when you and I kiss, you feel it, the same way I do.”

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

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319. “Heiress you wound me” Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.”

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320. “The best way to keep intruders from breaking into a safe is to make sure they don’t even know it’s there.”

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321. “Grayson wanted me safe, and I wasn’t.”

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322. “Before I could get the word daughter out, Grayson leaned his head down and crushed his lips to mine. He kissed me to save me from what I’d been about to say. For a small eternity, nothing in the world existed outside of that kiss. His lips. Mine. For show.”

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323. “I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”

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324. “That’s my girl!” Xander bellowed. “Woman,” Max corrected. “That’s my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!”

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325. “Ik was zo sportief me maar een heel klein beetje te verkneukelen. ‘Wat is het toch heerlijk om de koningin te zijn.”

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326. “Do you trust me, Heiress?” Jameson had donned a leather jacket. He looked like trouble. The good kind.”

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

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328. “Libby’s on-again, off-again boyfriend – who had a fondness for punching walls and extolling his own virtues for not punching Libby.”

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329. “Mr. Hawthorne signed a document reaffirming his will yearly,” Alisa told me. “He never changed it, until you.” Until me. My entire body tingled, just thinking about it. “How long ago was that?” I asked. “Last year.” What could have happened to make Tobias Hawthorne decide that instead of leaving his entire fortune to charity, he was going to leave it to me? Maybe he knew my mother. Maybe he knew she died. Maybe he was sorry.”

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330. “Some people weren’t worth the breath it took to shoot them down.”

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331. “I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”

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332. “I inadvertently overheard some things while my ear was casually pressed to this steel door.”

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333. “What in the world had I done to attract the attention of the FBI?”

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334. “Passive-aggressive, sure, and petty.”

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335. “We noemen het “het introvertenbal”. – Libby.”

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336. “There was something intense in those words, in the expression on his face – like the boy who’d learned to see the world saw me.”

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337. “I was the glass ballerina or the knife.”

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338. “Grayson was looking at me differently now, like in all his travels, he’d never encountered anything quite like this. Like me.”

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339. “You say you care about Dean,” she told me, her voice low. “You say you want to help. This will help. I’d lie to you about a lot of things, Cassie, but helping Dean isn’t one of them. I wouldn’t do this for you, or for Michael, or even for Sloane. But I would waltz into hades and make nice with the devil himself for Dean, so either you put on the damn dress or you get the hell out of my way.”

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340. “He saw dozens of permutations in how things could play out, planned for every eventuality, strategized for each and every possible future.”

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341. “I use knowing things about people as an excuse to keep them from knowing me.”

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342. “They’d been sculpted by Tobias Hawthorne, formed and forged by the billionaire’s hands. They were extraordinary, and for the first time in their lives, they weren’t living under the weight of his expectations.”

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343. “That you’ll be more careful. That I won’t come home to find you gone again.”

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344. “Knowing about Eve and letting her be raised by people who treated her as less than? Pretending that our family owed Toby’s daughter nothing? There’s nothing honorable about that.” Grayson shook. “Any of it.”

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345. “I was starting to believe that was what our country ran on – secret upon secret upon secret.”

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346. “Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black.”

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347. “I this was what it meant to be a Hawthorne.”

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348. “I’ve found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.”

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349. “Who I am is less important than who I work for.”

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350. “Two,” I said now, just as I had then, but this time I couldn’t help wondering if Jameson was talking about a different kind of triangle – about him and Grayson and me.”

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