Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

“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

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

“Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“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

“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you. Forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

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

“Sterling turned to Michael. I expected her to ask him something, but instead she just held out her hand. "Keys."
"Spatula," Michael replied. She narrowed her eyes at him. "We aren't just saying random nouns?" he asked archly.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“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 love you.” Dean lifted the words from my mind. “Today, tomorrow, covered in blood, haunted and waking up in the middle of the night screaming—I love you, Cassie, and I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“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, The Naturals

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

“If looks could kill, Lia would have been dead on the floor, and I would have been on trial for murder.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

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

“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, All In

“This is Sadie,” he told his father, tucking a hand around Lia’s waist as he introduced her by her alias of choice. “And by the door, we have Esmerelda, Erma, and Barf.”
For the first time, I saw a flicker of annoyance cross Townsend Senior’s face. “Barf?” He eyed Dean.
“It’s short for Bartholomew,” Lia lied smoothly. “Our Barf had a speech impediment as a child.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“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, All In

“I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Dance it off.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

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

“If you can't keep them from hitting you, you make them hit you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“Studying mutilated bodies was routine. Talking to me—apparently, that was hard.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes,” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“I take it you’re Michael,” she said. “The emotion reader with the attitude problem who’s continually doing stupid things for girls.” “That’s hardly a fair assessment,” Michael replied. “I do plenty of stupid things that aren’t for girls, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“In the interest of ultimate honesty,” Celine cut in, “I’m pretty sure that everyone present would appreciate it if you two got a room.”
“I wouldn’t,” Dean grumbled.
“I am unbothered by displays of physical and emotional intimacy,” Sloane volunteered. “The nuances and statistics underlying courtship behavior are quite fascinating.”
The edges of Celine’s lips quirked upward as she met Sloane’s gaze. “You don’t say.”
Sloane frowned. “I just did.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood