Top 100 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes
#1. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.
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#3. Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me.
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#4. We went to Mexico, had some tequlia, eloped with a pair of drug smugglers, and took part-time jobs as exotic dancers. You know, same old, same old.
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#5. Asher smiled beatifically, as if he'd been waiting his whole life for someone to ask just that question. How would you feel about some Mentos and Diet Coke?
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#6. I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.
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#7. Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first.
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#8. Sterling turned to Michael. I expected her to ask him something, but instead she just held out her hand. "Keys."
"Spatula," Michael replied. She narrowed her eyes at him. "We aren't just saying random nouns?" he asked archly.
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#10. I'd spent my whole human life not making waves, hiding what I was, trying not to be noticed.
Until now.
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#11. Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.
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#13. The werewolf Senate hadn't been happy with the idea of a human alpha, and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about the fact that I had something most male Weres wanted very, very badly ... Maddy. Lake. Lily, Katie, Sloane, Avie, Sophie ...
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#14. We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers.
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#16. Less than an hour ago, all I'd wanted was detention. Now, I was nominated for homecoming court and going to the big dance with the hottest guy in school. Somewhere out there, God was laughing at me. I was sure of it.
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#17. I take it Asher called you?" "What's your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?
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#18. Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.
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#19. Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.
"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif.
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#20. Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.
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#21. Someone tried to kill me, and I'm going swimming. I'm going swimming, because it doesn't matter. I'm going swimming, because I don't matter. I'm going swimming, because that's what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.
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#22. I'm not your girl"
"You could be."
"Yeah and I could also tattoo an anorexic pterodactyl on my navel, but I'm not planning on do that, either
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#24. You have no right to tell me-"
"You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat."
"How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?
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#25. If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.
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#26. I don't want to be alone, I whispered. The second those words left my mouth, Vivvie flew across the room. She hugged me like hugging was a contact sport.
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#28. To my surprise, Brooke smiled, and I realized that even though two of the other teams had managed to bug their marks' cell phones, the information Tara and I had received might just prove it self to be even more useful.
Take that Chloe!
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#30. The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that ... any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I would have been a dead girl walking ...
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#31. Actively hating your newfound popularity with a fiery passion can really take a lot out off you
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#32. There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.
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#33. There are a lot of ways to castrate a bull," I said, my words deliberate and slow. "You can band the balls off, so they shrivel up and die. Or you can take a knife, and slide it just so." I demonstrated with my free hand. "I grew up on a ranch. I know a lot about castrating bulls.
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#35. When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.
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#36. You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.
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#37. Two psychics, two werewolves, and a psychic human alpha walk up to a crime scene ...
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#39. Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.
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#40. Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?
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#41. Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.
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#42. Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.
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#43. After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.
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#45. Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.
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#46. I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.
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#47. You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.
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#48. Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.
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#49. I heard the telltale sound of scales scraping against metal
a light swoosh, a tongue flickering out to taste the stale and humid air. Whatever it was, my prey was tasting for me.
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#51. She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened - it didn't change anything.
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#54. Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.
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#55. You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.
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#56. Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.
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#57. Bethany blinked. "Did you just hit me?" she asked, disbelief coloring her every feature.
Skylar raised both hands, palms outward. "I come in peace!"
"You do not come in peace. You hit me."
"I hit in peace!
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#58. My little sister snuck out of the house carrying a circular-saw blade and a can of Mace. I couldn't exactly let her come alone.
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#59. Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby.
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#60. I laid my head on his neck, and the two of us-girl and wolf-fell asleep, into a dream within a dream.
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#62. I understand you've been spending some time in the company of my son." Adam's father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them - like he knew what you'd had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.
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#63. Caroline: 'You know Sora. I don't. It will hurt you. It won't hurt me. Nothing hurts me.'
Lake: 'Liar. Just breathing hurts you so bad, you want to beat the snot out of something.
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#64. The fact that you don't hate him for this breaks my heart. And if we weren't leaving because of what they'd done to you, we'd be leaving because the pack has twisted you enough to make you think that it's okay for someone to treat you that way.
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#66. I'd tell you that was pretty much impossible," Asher replied, "but your Tess Kendrick. My spider senses tell me that impossible is kind of your thing.
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#67. Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.
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#68. I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference.
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#69. Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray.
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#71. Lake, could you please stop sweet-talking the weapons? It's kind of freaking me out.
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#72. For all you know, this moment, this second, or the next, or the next, could be your destiny. It's not about having plans. It's about having purpose and being who, not what you want to be.
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#73. could practically hear Henry's subtle, pointed smile in response to those words. "Then you don't need to worry about me," he said. "Do you?
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#74. Darryl likes codes," Skylar explained. "A few weeks ago, I asked him what someone might hypothetically need to break into a supercomputer. He hypothetically made me this.
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#75. Pretend for a moment," Lia told her, "that we're all very, very slow."
"I'm not very good at pretending," Sloane told her seriously. "But I think I can do that.
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#76. It's your favorite person."
"No. You're not."
"I won't embarrass you by proving I am.
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#78. The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy's drive. Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle.
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#79. Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.
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#80. Luckily for me, I didn't know precisely what it was that I'd done to merit a visit from our pack's leader. There were any number of possibilities, none of which I wanted to openly admit on the off chance that there was something I'd done that he hadn't found out yet.
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#82. I'd tell you that you can't stay mad forever," Ivy commented, "but I'm pretty sure you'd take that as a challenge.
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#83. Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.
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#84. This wasn't instinct," the man - Adam - countered. "This was guilt, Ivy." "I'm not debating this with you." "Evidence would suggest you are.
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#85. I mean, technically, he wasn't fired," Emilia clarified. "He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill's forte, and I guess anything's a pretty big step down after the White House.
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#86. Et tu, Henry? Asher held a hand to his chest. Henry didn't bat an eye. He was clearly used to the dramatics.
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#87. You could be happy with three.
Three is a good number.
But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You won't.
If you don't have their attention yet, you will soon.
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#88. Good boy, Devon," I taunted. "You got me home before dark. If you can sit, shake and roll over, too, I'm sure Callum will give you a doggie treat.
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#89. Emilia hooked her arm through mine, like we were the best of friends. "You solve problems," she said again. "I have a problem. Ergo . . .
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#93. I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.
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#94. You're a very pretty girl ... Did you know? Once upon a time, I had a pretty, pretty boy.' She reached forward and touched my cheek with one manicured hand.
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#95. Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.
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#97. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.
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#98. Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.
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#99. Blend in. don't make waves. Don't look up.' That was the mantra I lived by. But not today.
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#100. You should try getting some sleep."
Sloane frowned. "Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day."
-Sloane
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