Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes

“Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Nothing hurts you unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Right." ... "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Dance it off.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“There were people out there who might live or die because of me, futures good or bad might be realized because of my choices.
What right did I even have to be the one making them?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Stop looking at me like that," I told him sternly.
"Like what?" he countered.
I folded my arms and stared him down. "You turn on the charm when you want something."
"Heiress, you wound me." Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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, The Brothers Hawthorne

“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.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Behavior. Personality. Enviroment. The BPEs are reliable when nothing an no one else is. They are constant.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“Even when wounds healed, the scars remained.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

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

“It’s not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It’s the good ones.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“You're my kid. She repeated the words. "Mine, Tess."
I told myself that she meant that I was her responsibility now.
"I'm not your sister." Those words were harder to misunderstand. "I was never your sister."
I don't understand.
I don't want to.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Fixer

“I stood there, staring at Ivy, a hundred thousand thoughts and memories and moments rushing through my head.
And then I got on the plane.
And then I shattered.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Fixer

“Being a Natural wasn’t something you could turn off. With each step i took, my brain catalogued the details of the enviroment around me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.’

- Judd”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Sometimes, the biggest sacrifice isn’t made by the person who gives up her life.” He lowered his forehead to touch mine. “Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives."

- Dean”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“When you changed one assumption, you changed everything.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You don’t understand it. But just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you get to ignore it. You can’t just pretend the pattern doesn’t exist and hope it goes away.’

- Sloane”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Home isn’t a place, Cassie. Home is the people who love you most.’

- Lorelai”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Part of being a Natural was not being able to turn off the parts of our brains that worked differently than other people’s.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In