Top 450 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It was made with love,” Xander told him. “Just like I tackle with love.” “No tackling,” Nash said.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

402. “If Harry was humble, I was the Queen of England.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

403. “If you can’t keep them from hitting you, you make them hit you.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

404. “Most people considered power and weakness opposites, but Grayson had learned early in life that the real opposite of weakness was control.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

405. “Our kind of game.”

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406. “When you’re old enough, when you’re ready, be warned: There is nothing frivolous about the way a Hawthrone man loves.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

407. “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.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

408. “Michael leaned forward and brushed his lips against mine. Then he pulled back and studied my face. Whatever he saw there, he liked. “Thank you,” he said. “That’s all I needed to know.”

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409. “I loved you,” he whispered, “when the world was pain and the only thing that made sense was your eyes. I loved you before I knew to hate myself, and I have loved you every day since.”

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410. “Grayson’s pale eyes locked on hers with an odd kind of recognition, like the two of them were strangers who’d met gazes across a crowded room only to realize they’d met before.”

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411. “When the odds are bad,” she said, removing something from one of them, “you change the rules.”

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412. “Tell you what, Dean,” Lia replied. “When Michael gets back, we’ll get the two of you a room. Obviously, there are feelings involved.”

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413. “This is exactly why I am an optimist. I’ve always had to be one. Sometimes, believing the best in people who don’t deserve it, believing that they love you even if they don’ – sometimes, that’s all a person can do to survive.”

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414. “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

415. “The worst feeling is when you want to go home but you are already there.”

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416. “You’ll love her, or you’ll kill her, but either way, she’s going to be yours.”

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417. “Found you,” I said. Once upon a time, I’d been a more gracious winner, but now I relished my victories like a Hawthorne.”

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418. “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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419. “Congratulations, by the way,” he called after Nash. “On the babies.”

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420. “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.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

421. “Don’t stop,” Kaylie told me fiercely. “Living. Loving. Dancing. Don’t you dare stop.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

422. “My inner Boy Scout had to try.” If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.”

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423. “Regret never pays dividends.”

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424. “There was a price to be paid for power, always. The only question was how steep the price was-and who was going to pay for it.”

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

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

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427. “If looks could kill, Lia would have been dead on the floor, and I would have been on trial for murder.”

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

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429. “All right, already,” Lia said, cutting me off. “Enough with the bonding, Cassie. I’ll share the ice cream, but we’re eating it somewhere else. I’m not in the mood to play well with others, and the next person who asks me to share something dies a slow, painful death.”

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430. “It’s okay Heiress’ Jameson murmured. ‘I’ve got you.”

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431. “You don’t have pockets,” she said slowly. “Only abs.” She frowned. “Brothers should not have abs.” “I agree,” Xander said solemnly. “Put on some clothes, man!”

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432. “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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433. “No feminism at the dinner table.”

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

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435. “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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436. “There will never be another one like the first.”

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437. “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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438. “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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439. “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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440. “Put me in a room with a bunch of English people, and I’d walk out with a British accent. It wasn’t intentional –.”

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

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442. “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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443. “How long has this place been bricked up?”

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

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445. “We arrived home to find Sloane in the kitchen, cuddling a blowtorch.”

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446. “As much as i knew about the ins and outs of the human mind, i couldn’t help wanting my own to work differently.”

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447. “Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius. It goes both ways.”

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448. “Gigi could feel a mental cha-cha coming on.”

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449. “Tinsel bombs are strongly encouraged,” Jameson added. This was, quite possibly, the single most Hawthorne thing I’d ever heard of.”

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450. “Sometimes, you have an idea of a person – about who they are, about what you’d be like together. But sometimes that’s all it is: an idea.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes