“Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Across from us, Lia eyed our hands and then brought her own to her forehead in a melodramatic motion. "I'm a dark and angsty profiler," she intoned. "No," she countered in a falsetto, bringing her other hand up, "I'm a dark and angsty profiler. Ours is a star-crossed love.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Nothing hurts you unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Home isn't a place, Cassie.' The memory crept up on me. 'Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Pretend for a moment," Lia told her, "that we're all very, very slow."
"I'm not very good at pretending," Sloane told her seriously. "But I think I can do that.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“My client," the lawyer said forcefully, "is pleading the Fifth.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You do what you can," he said, after seconds of silence had stretched to a minute, "to make sure your kids are safe. From the second they're born..." He stared at the lines of Nightshade's face, the ordinariness of it. "You want to protect them. From every skinned knee, from hurt feelings and punk kids who push smaller ones into the dirt, form the worst parts of yourself and the worst parts of this world.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You should try getting some sleep.”
Sloane frowned. “Giraffes only sleep four and a half hours a day.”
-Sloane”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long...." His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable."
"And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“You could be happy with three.
Three is a good number.
But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You won't.
If you don't have their attention yet, you will soon.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
“Don’t,” Judd told her sharply. “Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from All In
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“I got up the next morning with morphine hangover. I poured myself a large glass of cold milk, which is an antidote for morphine.”
― William S. Burroughs, quote from And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
“In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction.”
― Roland Barthes, quote from Mythologies
“Why is it their business? They expect me to go sit at their fucking picnic—alone—and watch them with their happy fucking little families, and I’m supposed to pretend like the one person in this town I give a damn about doesn’t even exist?” “Uh….” I couldn’t really think of anything to say to that. I couldn’t believe that he had said any of it and was pretty sure he wouldn’t have on any normal day. But it didn’t matter. He was still talking, and the pull on the back of my head had resumed.”
― Marie Sexton, quote from Promises
“Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Alta
“That’s why they pay me the medium-sized bucks.”
― Karen Rose, quote from I Can See You
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