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Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Ideen

"Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said.
"Scream before they hit you."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Every Other Day

Geschwister Schwestern

There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Zocken & Glücksspiel

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.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Entscheidungen

In the tapestry of life, our inheritance is the thread that we weave into the fabric of history.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Atmen

Every choice we make shapes the legacy we pass on to the next generation.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Entscheidungen

Beneath the guise of loyalty, betrayal can lie dormant, waiting for the right moment.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Treue & Loyalität Verrat

"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."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Freundschaft Blut

Power is not in what you possess, but in how you wield it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Macht

In the realm of secrets, answers are the most precious treasure.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Geheimnisse

Secrets are the bricks that build the walls of mystery.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Geheimnisse

I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"You have no right to tell me-"
"You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat."
"How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Good boy, Devon," I taunted. "You got me home before dark. If you can sit, shake and roll over, too, I'm sure Callum will give you a doggie treat."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Show of hands," Devon said, breaking the silence. "Who thinks we're screwed?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Traurige Sprüche

"If I were choosing between you and any one of them," he'd told me, "I would choose them, always and every time."
But he hadn't.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Teufel

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves

"Did you follow me here?" I asked.
Lake shrugged. "The word follow seems to suggest you got here first."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Geld Macht

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Taken by Storm

Power was as much a fact of life for this guy as gravity. The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

"Three questions," I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke.
"One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Taken by Storm

I could feel his heart beating, feel his mind and thoughts blending with my own as the two of us stood there, bathed in the moonlight and feeling its effects like a drug.
Whoever Chase was, he was mine.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery - some things are too precious to gamble.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Liebeserklärungen

Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said.
"This is one of them."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Umarmungen

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Zocken & Glücksspiel

You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Dummheit

"None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

I'm just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Daten & Datenschutz

"A guy who thinks he knows everything," I muttered. "That's new."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Narben

Knowing that Mr. Yates was infamous for giving impossible tests had made me want to redefine possible.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Something about the curve of his lips was more intimate than any touch.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Lippen

I'd gone my whole life without romance. I didn't need it, not the way I needed this: being part of something, caring about people in a way that I hadn't realized I still could. Not just Michael and Dean, but Sloane and even Lia. I fit here. I hadn't fit anywhere in a very long time.

Maybe ever.

I couldn't screw that up.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

No expectations, no disappointments.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Erwartungen Enttäuschung

"Ever had your life ruined by someone with the last name Hawthorne?" Alisa continued.
I stared at her, then managed to answer more confidently this time. "No."
Alisa smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. "Lucky you."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

"Sometimes," he said, "when I'm in a social pickle, I like to ask myself, WWJAD?" I raised an eyebrow, and he explained. "What Would Jane Austen Do?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Jane Austen

If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Doesn't Judd have a rule about you wearing lingerie in the kitchen?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't, it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games