Bad Blood Quotes

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

“Home isn't a place. It's 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.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“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

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

“Home is the people who love you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“All of us had a way of regaining the control that life had taken away from us. For Sloane, it was numbers. For Lia, it was keeping her true self buried beneath layers of lies. Michael intentionally provoked anger instead of waiting for someone else’s fuse to blow. Dean did everything he could to keep his emotions in check. And I use knowing things about people as an excause to keep them from knowing me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.”
― Debra Doyle, James D. MacDonald

“Sometimes, the biggest sacrifice isn’t made by the person who gives up her life.” He lowered his forehead to touch mine. “Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives."

- Dean”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Without order, there is chaos.
Without order, there is pain.
The wheel turns. Lives are forfeit. Seven masters. Seven ways of killing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here."
"You're sure?"
"Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.”
― John Sandford

“Are you sure that's Val?"
"No," said Freddie. "It's Lassie in a wolf suit.”
― Debra Doyle, James D. MacDonald

“ Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die. ”
― Debra Doyle

“There were many things she could have said, but we forget to forge armor against the knife-thrusts of our loved ones.”
― Angela Panayotopulos

“If Mr. Castillo had been in charge of building the Ark, Noah would have wound up with a boat the size of the New Jersey."
"It still wouldn't have been big enough for all those animals," said Freddie.
"Honestly, Freddie," I said. "Don't you know a joke when you hear one?"
"Sure," he said. "Just the same, Val, with the few people the Ark had aboard, there wouldn't be enough of them to shovel all the-"
I threw a pine cone at him and chased him back to camp.”
― Debra Doyle, James D. MacDonald

“If you come from a family where there is no struggle to outshine one another, give thanks to God.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“You didn't change the world by being cynical.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“She was so laser focused on achieving her goals that she seemed oblivious to the practical implications of her decision.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“The fear of missing out was a powerful deterrent.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup