Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “You know what they say about baptisms and fire.”

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303. “Nee, ik heb geweigerd omdat degene die de klacht heeft ingediend, mogelijk iets in mijn kluisje heeft gelegd. – Tess.”

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304. “All I knew was that Skye had been right. Jameson was hungry. And so am I.”

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

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306. “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.”

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307. “From what I picked up during the remainder of the evening, Campbell Ames had a reputation for pulling “stunts like this”. It wasn’t entirely clear what constituted as a stunt, though I did gather that borrowing cars that didn’t belong to her and wearing white after Labor Day were both in Campbell’s repertoire.”

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

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309. “Between the fire and a storm that night,” Alisa said, once she’d recovered, “Toby’s remains were never definitively found.”

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

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311. “Personally, I find this turn of events delightful,” Max declared. “But you look like a motherfaxing deer caught in motherfaxing headlights.”

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312. “I could understand why my mother’s mother had called Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?”

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313. “Adopting my haughtiest look, I leaned toward my sister and raised my warm nuts high.”

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314. “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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315. “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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316. “I inadvertently overheard some things while my ear was casually pressed to this steel door.”

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317. “Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one’s ever heard of?”

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318. “Each word the dead man said made this entire situation feel that much eerier. How much of what had happened since he’d died had he foreseen? Not just foreseen, but planned, moving us all around like pawns?”

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319. “Where was his cheat sheet?”

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320. “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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321. “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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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. “Nothing has to matter unless you let it.”

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.”

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329. “My psychic senses,” Max announced, “are now attuned to that picture, and I’m getting some pretty clear messages about communing and abs.”

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330. “Even in the darkest of times, Xander was Xander. “You’re going to drop one of those on your foot,” I said. “That’s okay,” Xander responded cheerfully. “I have two feet!”

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

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332. “Quite frankly, I thought that tools who lived in tool houses probably shouldn’t throw stones.”

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333. “He didn’t move, didn’t blink, wasn’t physically aggressive in any way, but he bled power, and he knew it.”

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

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

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337. “I guess that’s what happens,” Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, “when you take a very risky gamble.”

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338. “Doesn’t Judd have a rule about you wearing lingerie in the kitchen?”

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

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340. “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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341. “Did Jameson tell you that I killed her?”

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

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343. “If you want, Mystery Girl, you can start calling me Mystery Boy.” -Jameson.”

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344. “They were – the four of them – a unit. They were Hawthornes. I wasn’t.”

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

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

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347. “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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348. “Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black.”

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349. “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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350. “If anything happens to her, I will hold you personally responsible.” – Grayson Hawthorne.”

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