Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Believe me," he said simply.

What do you want me to do, Adam?" my sister asked finally, her voice soft enough now that I had to strain to hear. "Things were bad in Montana. I'm not sending her back, and I am not shipping her off to some boarding school. And don't give me that look—you were the one who told me to bring her here three years ago!

Consider me an open book" dev said. "Mi casa es su casa." Dev crinkled his nose and smelled the air. "Err, mi nose es su nose.

something about the curve of his lips was more intimate than any touch.

I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long...." His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable." "And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.

Whatever it is you and the boys are up to—stop.

We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.

My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.

Ms. Kendrick, are you listening to me?" Headmaster Raleigh asked. Not in the least. "Yes, sir." The sir seemed to appease him somewhat.

Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most.

And then, one Saturday morning, I came down to breakfast, and it all came to a head when she flat-out told me that I wasn't going to training. Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced. "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?" "Bryn, that's enough.

But on a more visceral level: I could have died.

Life is full of drowning people, reading and willing to drown you, too.

Skye set her glass down. "Don't you dare rewrite history. What do you think it was like for me? Son after son—and every single one of you preferred my father.

There was nothing to ruin. [Dean Redding]

Well then, Heiress." Jameson stepped forward. Standing directly to my side, he brought his lips down to my ear and whispered, "Game on.

Is this the part where you suggest a highly inadvisable way of putting people in the mood to talk, in hopes that someone can shed light on who the"--Henry glanced at Vivvie--"hedgehog might be?" "It's funny," I told Henry... "but the moment you said inadvisable, I had a thought." ... "The hedgehog?" Emilia asked, wrinkling her brow.

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!

I told you she was special," Jameson murmured as Grayson continued closing in on him. "And I told you to stay away from her." Grayson stopped, just out of Jameson's reach.

but at the end of the day, even if you thought that you'd manipulated our grandfather into this, I guarantee that he'd be the one manipulating you.

Michael cut in, "I'll completely ignore it and go next. Best part of my week: I annoyed six out of seven of our instructors. Worst part of my week: the seventh is proving a deceptively hard nut to crack.

The knight returns with the damsel in distress," Jameson declared as I made my way toward him. He glanced toward Grayson. "You're the damsel." "I figured

You know what they say about baptisms and fire.

No. I couldn't do this, couldn't go down that rabbit hole. Ivy's going to be fine. I'll hate her forever if something happens to her. She's going to be fine.