Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Some people do horrible things because of their beliefs, and some people choose beliefs that let them do horrible things.

Home is the people who love you.

Toby hadn't written a message on the wall of his bedroom. He'd written tens of thousands of words across all the walls in the suite. Toby Hawthorne had kept a diary. His whole life was documented on the walls of his wing of Hawthorne House. He couldn't have been more than seven or eight when he'd started writing.

I take it Asher called you?" "What's your endgame here, Henry? Why are you going?

When you lose the remote control to your television, four percent of the time it ends up in the freezer!" Sloane blurted out loudly.

Where is that incredible promise I hear my colleagues chatting about in the teachers' lounge?" Mr. Simpson asked Ryan facetiously. "You have a lot of fans at this school, Mr. Washburn. Surely they can't all be mistaken about your intellectual capacity. Perhaps the emancipation of every enslaved human being in this country is simply not significant enough to merit a student of your remarkable caliber taking note of the date?

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.

No expectations, no disappointments. [Michael Townsend]

I told Vivvie what the person who'd answered had said, verbatim.

Emilia hooked her arm through mine, like we were the best of friends. "You solve problems," she said again. "I have a problem. Ergo . . .

Born Smart. Born Tough. Born FBI

Don't," Judd told her sharply. "Don't you ever apologize for being what you are.

Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby.

Ouch!" The manicurist who'd just relieved me of part of my cuticle submerged my feet in bubbling water. Hot water. "Oh, hush," Lily said. "It feels good. Beauty is pain." "Pain," I gritted out, "is also pain.

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.

knock knock! I just happened to have my ear pressed to this door. I might have overheard some things, and I have a suggestion!

Darn you and your infernal logic." Asher ran both hands through his hair, mussing it to ridiculous heights. "Fine," he capitulated. "But I want in. Whatever you're planning to do about this, whatever Vivvie's doing, I want in.

He didn't move, didn't blink, wasn't physically aggressive in any way, but he bled power, and he knew it.

Asking for a friend," Asher clarified. Then he nudged his best friend. "Henry, my good man, tell Tess she's pretty as a picture when she's preparing to unleash her wrath on the delightfully unsuspecting father of one of our classmates." "Kendrick?" Henry Marquette said. "Yes?" I replied without taking my eyes away from the street. "You are utterly terrifying when you are plotting something.

She loved him. It hurt to love him, and she loved him anyway.He left her, and she loved him anyway.

The eagle has landed," Vivvie said from the other end. "The bird is in the bush." Few things in life gave Vivvie and Asher as much joy as talking in code. I didn't bother translating.

I was comfortable with silence, comfortable with letting questions go unanswered. Sometimes it was my best tool for making a person say more.

I've built three different companies from the ground up. You don't achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.

Your son," I said, "impregnated an underage girl, then got physical with her when she had the audacity to be devastated at the realization that he'd just been using her to get close enough to make a move against Tobias Hawthorne.