Lila > Lila's Quotes

“I eat it all. I just like to eat the cheese and toppings first, then the crust.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Karma was supposed to be a cat, dammit, not this.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“Maybe karma was a girl in glasses.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“No way did this guy—a minor, like me—disregard the laws of the skies.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“The only thing you like about me is my voice?? Bailey: Not what I said. I said it’s my FAVORITE thing, because you’re relaxed and mellow when your voice gets like that. Your edges soften a little. My edges. I wasn’t sure how she knew me so well, how she’d somehow always seen me. I spent most of my time feeling like everyone in my life didn’t get me, yet there was Glasses, seeing right through me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“She cupped her hands together, dipped them into the creek, then lifted the cold water to her mouth.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“He teased relentlessly and was the funniest person I’d ever met, yet I knew for a fact that he listened to Conan Gray and Gracie Abrams on repeat all the time (I had his Spotify password).”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“When you’re in the room, every single cell in my body – every nerve, every muscle, every breath – is lost in you.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“We were both grinning, and for some reason, I felt an invisible string pulling me closer to her as she smiled up to me.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“But the thing about relationships was that no one else knew the quiet, tiny moments that belong exclusively to you two. Those were the things that made you hold tight because you were the only one he’d shown that side of himself to.
No one else knew.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“A thousand inside jokes stood between my heart and closure.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“I was never going to get another text from Bay. I was never going to make her forehead crinkle with my words, or hear her laugh in that surprised way she had when she tried and failed to suppress it, never going to hear her quiet intake of breath when she realised we were about to kiss, and never going to hear her sleepily say ‘G’night, Charlie’ on the other end of the phone.
A thousand tiny nothing moments that were collectively every fucking thing I’d ever wanted.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“We need to talk," Dean said.
"Whatever you have to say," Michael drawled, "You can say in front of me."
I gave Michael a look.
"Whatever you have to say, you can say in front of me, unless Cassie wishes to speak to you privately, in which case I completely respect her right to do so," Michael corrected himself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“No expectations, no disappointments. [Michael Townsend]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“There was nothing to ruin. [Dean Redding]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It was warm and safe and happy-but it wasn't me. [Cassandra Hobbes]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I'm not scared of this place. I'm not afraid to learn how to think like a killer, and I'm not afraid of you. [Cassandra Hobbes]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I looked at Dean, and suddenly, I could breathe.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“When does Agent Briggs get back?” I asked.

“He’s never going to let you work on this,” Michael told me.

“Is that your way of telling me that you don’t want him to know we hacked a stolen jump drive?” I shot back.

Michael snorted. “Personally, I wouldn’t mind taking out an ad in the paper or hiring a skywriter to announce that he and Locke were outsmarted by three bored teenagers.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I’m a mess,” she said. “By every sense of the word.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I was everyone’s problem and nobody’s.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“When the odds are bad, you change the rules.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct