Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left

Dus mijn zus is een professionele probleemoplosser?' vroeg ik afgemeten. 'Zij lost de problemen van andere mensen op? Dat is toch geen baan?' 'Vraag en aanbod, Tess,' zei Vivvie. 'In Washington noemen we dit soort mensen fixers.

Do you know why Jameson was daddys favorite when by all rights it should have been perfect, dutiful Grayson?" "It wasn't because my Jamie is brilliant or beautiful or charismatic. It was because Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry.

They were a broken, twisted mess before you got here, and they will be a broken, twisted mess once you're gone

Nee, ik heb geweigerd omdat degene die de klacht heeft ingediend, mogelijk iets in mijn kluisje heeft gelegd. - Tess

Some people weren't worth the breath it took to shoot them down.

Mijn zus woont hier,' zei ik tegen hem. 'Lichtbruin haar, ongeveer zo groot? Zit binnen te praten met de First Lady, denk ik?

I knew better than to put any confidence in the assurances of good-looking guys.

Eén gunst. Ik bepaal waar en wanneer ik die gunst wil, en er wordt niet gevraagd waarom.' Emilia lachte haar allerliefste lach... 'Deal?' Tandenknarsend schudde ik haar hand... 'Deal.

Hoffelijkheid is niet seksistisch,' zei Asher. 'Als je nu beweert dat vrouwen voorrang moeten krijgen omdát ze vrouw zijn, dan is dat weldegelijk seksistisch,' antwoordde ik.

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

Zodra hij me zijn kant op zag komen, excuseerde hij zich bij de groep met wie hij stond te praten en verdween hij het jongenstoilet in. Waarschijnlijk dacht hij dat hij me daarmee had afgeschud. Blijkbaar kende hij me niet heel goed.

Asher is de aardige helft. Hij is degene die iedereen aardig vindt. Ik ben degene die dingen voor elkaar krijgt. - Emilia

Je bent mijn kind... Van mij, Tess... Ik ben je zus niet... Nooit je zus geweest. - Ivy

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you." ? The Inheritance Games

I was starting to believe that was what our country ran on—secret upon secret upon secret.

She is one of us. We protect her.

The best way to keep intruders from breaking into a safe is to make sure they don't even know it's there.

Did I want to talk about the fact that I'd disobeyed the pack? That Callum had betrayed me, over and over again; that every day, he'd let me go on believing one thing when reality was another? Did I want to talk about the fact that together, Callum and I had destroyed Ali's marriage, torn my family apart, and brought life to a screeching halt?

It didn't matter if my ribs hurt. It didn't matter if every time I blinked, I saw Sora's fist coming toward my face. I needed a plan. I needed to be strong. So I just kept running, because come hell or high water, a girl couldn't afford to be weak or human at a time like this.

Identify the assumptions implicit in your own logic," Grayson said, clearly citing a dictate he'd been taught. "Then negate them.

I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.

Each word the dead man said made this entire situation feel that much eerier. How much of what had happened since he'd died had he foreseen? Not just foreseen, but planned, moving us all around like pawns?

Feeling like she really was just seven or eight, Claire sat down on the floor, books all around her, and she opened the last one she'd picked up. Even though it was dark, and even though her eyes couldn't see the words, she knew them. Knew the little prince's story as well as her own. She closed her eyes. She leaned her head forward against the book. And she sobbed.