Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “They were – the four of them – a unit. They were Hawthornes. I wasn’t.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

356. “He saw the stylists first, then Avery, and once he saw Avery, it was like he couldn’t see anything else.”

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

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

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

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360. “You’ve really never heard of this guy?” Thea asked. “He’s rich and powerful and hates your family’s guts, and you’ve never even heard his name?” “You know as well as I do,” Grayson replied, “that there are different kinds of rich.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

361. “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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362. “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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363. “How long has this place been bricked up?”

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

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365. “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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366. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

368. “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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369. “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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370. “That you’ll be more careful. That I won’t come home to find you gone again.”

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

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

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

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375. “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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376. “It’s her house.”

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377. “Then why haven’t you noticed I’m not your only tail?” – Nash.”

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

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

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381. “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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382. “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.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes