Quotes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Not going to walk me to the door? I asked, pretending to be shocked at his lack of gallantry.Of course I am. many would think that a bonny lass such as yerself wouldst be able to stay out of trouble for a distance of fifteen feet, but I know better.Did you just use the words yerself and wouldst in the same sentence? You cant be a pirate and a courtier at the same time, Dev. It just isnt done.

Casey doesnt trust him.Casey doesnt trust anyone, I replied. Hes paranoid like that. I mean, come on, hes a werewolf who installed a nanny cam in his kids room. I pointed my spoon at Ali for emphasis. A nanny cam.

Bethany blinked. Did you just hit me? she asked, disbelief coloring her every feature.Skylar raised both hands, palms outward. I come in peace!You do not come in peace. You hit me.I hit in peace!

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Id sold my soul to get out of detention.

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who’d never met a site she couldn’t hack or a code she couldn’t break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I’d come within five feet of a pom-pom

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.

Home isnt a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.

In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.

When youre hurting, you hurt yourself.

Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.

Home is the people who love you.

Home isnt a place. Its not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.

You want power-either because youve already had a taste of it and want more, or because youve been made to feel powerless for too long.

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.

Believe me, he said simply.

This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Dont ask, dont tell, stay civil.

Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or not I actually qualified as human at the time.