Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

What in the world had I done to attract the attention of the FBI?

I thought about the news coverage of the fire. The suggestion that there had been a wild party that had spun out of control. The way that the tragedy had been blamed, again and again, on Kaylie Rooney, when the three upstanding young men had been partying straight out of rehab.

Some people like having their friends aroun when things get tough,and some people need to be alone. When she/he ready to talk, she/he will talk.

Ik was zo sportief me maar een heel klein beetje te verkneukelen. 'Wat is het toch heerlijk om de koningin te zijn.

I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.

Avery Grambs is not the result of infidelity on the part of our father, who was faithful to his beloved wife, our mother, for the entirety of their marriage.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

Ricky Grambs was a deadbeat. He hadn't even cared enough to pick up the phone when my mother died. If it had been left up to him, I would have gone into foster care. Staring at Ricky's signature, I willed Tobias Hawthorne's reasoning in highlighting it to become clear.

I moved on from Emily," he said. "Gray didn't. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.

And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.

I could understand why my mother's mother had called Tobias Hawthorne's fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?

wouldn't feel too sorry for Kaylie Rooney," Zara said coldly. "What happened to her—what happened to all of them—it was a tragedy, of course, but she was far from innocent. From what the investigator was able to piece together, the Rooney family runs just about every drug that comes through Rockaway Watch.

The Rooneys may run Rockaway Watch, but it's a small town. They're small people with a small reach, and the legal situation had already been taken care of. Toby could have come home, but he fought it.

Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes

Tempting fate was one thing; baiting Pack Justice was entirely another.

Grayson was Not Pleased-and no one did Not Pleased like Grayson Hawthorne.

No feminism at the dinner table.

I this was what it meant to be a Hawthorne.

This time," Oren said. "Skye has already tried to have you killed once. Both of them are threats. I suggest we let them cool their heels in prison at least until your emancipation goes through." Once I was legally an adult, once I could write my own will, Ricky and Skye would stand to gain nothing by my death.

Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?" Zara's last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. "I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will." Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don't trust Thea.

Grayson looked at me the way you look at art in a glass case, like he wanted to reach out to touch me but couldn't.

You may be tested by the flames, but you need not burn.

had spent a lifetime treating me like an afterthought, if that. I hadn't seen him in more than a year. But now that I'd inherited billions? There he was.

He says with patented Smirk Number Three." Devon shook his head and made a sound somwhere in the neighborhood of tsk-tsk. "You're getting rusty, Bronwyn. That was clearly Smirk Number Two: sardonic with a side of wit.