Top 450 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “It’s her house.”

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

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

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356. “Xander raised his hand. “Anyone else wondering if we have a secret uncle out there no one knows about? Because at this point, secret uncle just kind of feels like it belongs on the Hawthorne bingo card.”

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

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

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359. “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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360. “There’s nothing like speed for getting out of your own head – and out of your own way.”

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

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362. “Nash moves across the aisle to sit next to me. He puts his hand under my chin and raises my eyes to meet his. “Don’t you ever apologize for the things you’ve survived.”

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363. “I recognized someone stacking the board, even if I couldn’t see the play underneath.”

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364. “But your family is weird. And that’s coming from me.” The difference is that Hawthornes are weird the way that Stonehenge is weird – magnificent and inexplicable. Hawthornes are invisible-ink weird. Hidden-passageways and secret-traditions weird. They are – and this is an actual example – I-dare-you-to-lick-that-Picasso weird.”

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365. “Even if no one else loves you, you can. Even if no one else ever puts you first, you can.”

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366. “He was aiming at Special Agent Lacey Locke.”

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367. “No one ever expected a Xander Inquisition.”

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368. “I looked at Dean, and suddenly, I could breathe.”

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369. “All one really has to do to win is control the players.”

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370. “Xander was no stranger to bad ideas. Or unusual ideas. Or the occasional this-is-either-brilliant-or-an-offense-against-common-sense-and-gravity idea. He was, in fact, a connoisseur of ideas, swishing even the most outlandish possibilities around in his mind and taking a delicate little taste.”

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371. “For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged somewhere. With my fellow Naturals, I never had to pretend to be someone I wasn’t. I couldn’t have, even if I’d wanted to.”

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372. “But mostly, I can’t hate him, Avery Kylie Grambs, because he brought me you.”

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373. “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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374. “Call me sentimental, but there’s something beautiful about anything built for one purpose that refuses to die, even once that purpose is gone.”

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375. “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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376. “Was that a suggestion,” Grayson said, “or an order?” Lyra arched a brow. “Do you take orders?” “From you?” Grayson gave her a look. “Absolutely.”

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377. “Let’s see what Mommy and Daddy are up to, shall we?” Lia said, eyeing the TV greedily and waiting for the fireworks to commence. “Lia, I will give you one thousand dollars to never refer to Sterling and Briggs as Mommy and Daddy again.”

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378. “Fear wasn’t just ice in your veins or a beast at your throat. Fear was loving someone so fiercely that there was no point in your heart beating if hers did not.”

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379. “I swear,” Lia continued with a wave of her hand, “serial killers are so predictable. It’s always all ‘I want to watch you suffer’ and ’let me quote Shakespeare while I imagine dancing on your corpse.”

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380. “She closes the gap and renders the rest of the universe nonexistent, and as my lips part for hers, I remember that one of my earliest thoughts in this life was that kissing her might kill me, but if this takes me out, I will consider it a life well-lived.”

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381. “No,” Max corrected. “You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won’t let himself want you. You don’t want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm’s length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.”

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

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384. “Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don’t get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who’s capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I have on you – on us, against the world. You don’t get to run off and take risks and expect me to stay behind in a gilded cage of your making. That isn’t who you are, and it’s not what I want.”

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385. “The danger of touch is the cruel beauty of a moment gone too fast and burned into the skin.”

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386. “You’ll always be wrong about something. You’ll always miss something. What if the UNSUB is older than you thought? What if he is a she?”

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387. “5 stars. Would definitely get kidnapped again.”

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388. “Our grandfather liked to say that every choice worth anything came with a cost.”

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389. “I am asking you,” she continued fiercely, “to remember that this matters.” His pain. His body. “You matter.”

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390. “You have to learn to take what you want – and never, ever let someone take what you don’t want to give.”

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391. “I’m not good at losing people.” Grayson paused. “Either that,” he continued hoarsely, “or I am exceptionally good at losing people.”

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392. “Don’t you ever apologize for the things you’ve survived.”

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

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395. “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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396. “On good nights, I read until I fell asleep, wrapping myself in fantasy worlds like they were blankets.”

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397. “Hawaii. Nieuw-Zeeland. Machu Picchu. Tokio. Bali.”

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398. “But when he smiled, I still felt seven years old and about three inches tall.”

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

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400. “I was everyone’s problem and nobody’s.”

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