Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I saw you with him. That Hawthorne boy." She managed to stand. "Never trust a Hawthorne," she slurred. "They take everything.

your hips are utterly incapable of falsehood.

Love wasn't just a choice--it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices.

Heiress, you wound me.

No," Max corrected. "You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won't let himself want you. You don't want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm's length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.

But the last girl at this school who got tangled up with the Hawthorne brothers? The last girl who spent hour after hour in that house? She died.

Ik heb een geheim, kon ik mijn moeder horen zeggen, minder dan een week voordat ze overleed. Over de dag dat je bent geboren.

If you had a baby…," I said. "When I have a baby," came the deep, heart-shattering reply, "she'll be my whole world." "She?" I repeated. Nash settled back into his seat. "I can picture Lib with a little girl.

The sales attendant's tone was so carefully nonjudgmental that I was almost certain she was judging me.

Wie zou mij nou dood willen hebben?' was tegenwoordig geen onzinnige vraag meer. Tegenwoordig was dat een vraag waar antwoorden op bestonden.

Sometimes, you have an idea of a person - about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all it is: an idea.

My father will be meeting with Zara and Constantine later today." "Constantine?" I asked. "Zara's husband.

En ik zal voor altijd spijt hebben van wat ik je zus heb aangedaan.

Vanaf nu ben je volwassen.' Alisa leek behoorlijk tevreden met zichzelf. 'Nu kun je je eigen testament opstellen.

Nash picked up a cupcake and took a bite out of it like it was an apple. "For what it's worth, I vote for red velvet next." Libby turned back to me. "Salted caramel it is.

And if my sister needs a break, you and that billion-dollar law firm can damn well find a way to give her one.

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

You're going to fall," I told him. He smirked. "An interesting proposition.

I told her Skye was the one to worry about. That child came out of the womb tap-dancing.

Let me do it," Jameson said. "I can't protect you from everything, Heiress, but I can protect you from this." Jameson wasn't the Hawthorne I usually associated with protection.

Where are you going?' I asked him. 'To hell, eventually,' Jameson answered. 'Probably to the wine cellar, for now.

You knew, and you did it anyway. I will never forgive you for this.

My right hand holding the blue-green glass, I dropped the towel with my left and reached for him. "Don't," Grayson breathed. He turned to walk past me. "I told you once before, Avery: I'm broken. I won't break you, too. Go back to bed. Forget about that piece of glass and whatever else was in that bag. Stop playing the old man's games"... That felt final in a way that nothing else between us ever had.

Pay no attention to this sledgehammer!