Top 450 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Heiress you wound me” Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.”

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352. “Aren’t you supposed to hate me?” I asked. “I do hate you,” Xander replied, happily devouring his third scone. “If you notice, I have kept the blueberry confections for myself and gave you”-he shuddered-“the lemon-flavored scones. Such is the depth of my loathing for you personally and principle.”

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

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354. “If anyone asks,” Michael called to him, “your name is Alfred.”

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355. “Identify the assumptions implicit in your own logic,” Grayson said, clearly citing a dictate he’d been taught. “Then negate them.”

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356. “A lot has happened. You have a lot to figure out. I can be a patient man, Colorado. A devastatingly handsome, roguishly scarred, heartbreakingly courageous, patient man.”

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

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

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359. “Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one.”

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360. “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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361. “Because when you love a woman or a man or anyone the way we love, there is no going back.”

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362. “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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363. “It was a game to the UNSUB. I was the prize. And if we weren’t careful, Michael and Dean were going to kill each other.”

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

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

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366. “All great lives should have at least one grand mystery.”

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367. “I have spent my entire life being fine when I wasn’t. I know the price. I know what it’s like to bear that prince with every cell in your body. It isn’t worth it.”

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368. “Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all.”

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369. “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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370. “It would be a shame,” Jameson commented, “if we were related.” He spared another smile for me, slow and sharp-edged. “Don’t you think?”

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371. “All of us had a way of regaining the control that life had taken away from us. For Sloane, it was numbers. For Lia, it was keeping her true self buried beneath layers of lies. Michael intentionally provoked anger instead of waiting for someone else’s fuse to blow. Dean did everything he could to keep his emotions in check. And I use knowing things about people as an excause to keep them from knowing me.”

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372. “Like the sun and the moon I loved her. Saint Avery. Until death and beyond.”

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373. “5 stars. Would definitely get kidnapped again.”

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

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375. “You made me hungry,” I told Jameson. “for everything. I want the world now.” I held his gaze in a way that dared him to look away. “And I want it with you.”

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376. “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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377. “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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378. “It’s her house.”

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

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380. “Gigi took in that info. “I am starting to feel distressingly sober. I think I need another mimosa.” “You got drunk on mimosas?” Nash asked mildly. Gigi held up a single finger. Xander interpreted. “On one mimosa?” “And four cups of coffee,” Gigi admitted.”

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381. “How many ways did rich people have of not saying the word rich?”

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

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383. “Let’s just say that I have the rare ability to be dissatisfied wherever I am.”

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384. “You’re Hawthornes,” the old man said. “If you’re going to do something- and I do consider wrestling to be something- then do it well. Do it right.”

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385. “I love you.” Dean lifted the words from my mind. “Today, tomorrow, covered in blood, haunted and waking up in the middle of the night screaming – I love you, Cassie, and I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”

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386. “I don’t need your jacket,” Lyra told Grayson. “Perhaps I need to give it to you,” Grayson suggested. “Chivalry. It’s a coping mechanism.”

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387. “Everything?” Jameson repeated in a rough, low tone that made me think of what the two of us could be doing if I were there with him.”

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388. “Traps upon traps,” Jameson had told me once. “And riddle upon riddles.”

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

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

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391. “I’m a mess,” she said. “By every sense of the word.”

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392. “On the surface,” he told me, “it appears that the letter outlines what we already know: My grandfather died and left everything to the devil he didn’t know, thereby reversing the fortune of many. Why? Because power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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393. “Grayson looked at me the way you look at art in a glass case, like he wanted to reach out to touch me but couldn’t.”

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394. “Do you know what philanthropist means?” Libby asked me seriously. “It means rich.”

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

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396. “Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don’t know how to fill.”

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397. “Celine smiles sweetly. “Why would I be interested in boys”, she asks the table innocently, “when there are girls?”

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398. “Whatever it is you and the boys are up to – stop.”

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399. “Alisa gave me an almost pitying look. “Oh, honey,” she said, then recovered her professionalism. “You own this hotel.”

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400. “Libby moved toward Nash and took his phone from his pocket. There was something intimate about the action – the way he let her, the way she knew he would.”

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