Quotes from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.

I don't believe in destiny or fate—I believe in choice. Love wasn't just a choice—it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices. Every day was a choice.

Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.

I'm a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I'm no stranger to being hated

You're my escort?" Devon shrugged. "The Big Guy tells you to do something, you do it, even if it means babysitting a bratty little human girl who calls playing with glue an art." I reached over and smacked him.

Bryn?" Chase's voice was a whisper in my mind, and the sensation sent a single chill up my spine. "Yes?" "You asked me what I liked, before." He paused, and all the silence tickled my mind, the chill in my spine climbing its way to the hairs on the back of my neck. "Before, I loved cars, Yeats, having a bedroom that locked from the inside, and you.

I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference.

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

I have a passing fondness for explosions." That was concerning on so many levels.

Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.

I'd take a physical fight over Touchy-Feely Share Time, hands down

Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it's smash the patriarchy.

Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.

For all you know, this moment, this second, or the next, or the next, could be your destiny. It's not about having plans. It's about having purpose and being who, not what you want to be.

We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers.

So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream." Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed. Subject successfully changed. "Now who's ready to eat?

I am an expert at not wanting to want things." I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he'd lowered his. "But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore.

Sometimes make-believe is just another word for rare.

Aren't you supposed to be taking my order?' I asked. 'Bite me. And then you can tell me what's wrong.

I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.

Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.

That's the thing, Mystery Girl. I don't think I'm turning anything into a riddle. I don't think I have to. You are a riddle, a puzzle, a game - my grandfather's last.