The Naturals Quotes

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

“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

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

“Nothing hurts you unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”
― 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

“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, All In

“Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“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

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

“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

“As much as i knew about the ins and outs of the human mind, i couldn’t help wanting my own to work differently.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“She hacked the FBI." Dean paused. "Of course she did. She's Sloane.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Celine smiles sweetly. “Why would I be interested in boys”, she asks the table innocently, “when there are girls?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“Even when wounds healed, the scars remained.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“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

“Behavior. Personality. Enviroment. The BPEs are reliable when nothing an no one else is. They are constant.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“It’s not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It’s the good ones.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“Being a Natural wasn’t something you could turn off. With each step i took, my brain catalogued the details of the enviroment around me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.’

- Judd”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“You don’t understand it. But just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you get to ignore it. You can’t just pretend the pattern doesn’t exist and hope it goes away.’

- Sloane”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Personally,' Lia commented, 'I find normal overrated.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve

“When you changed one assumption, you changed everything.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Part of being a Natural was not being able to turn off the parts of our brains that worked differently than other people’s.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Home isn’t a place, Cassie. Home is the people who love you most.’

- Lorelai”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“It was one of the great ironies of my life that I’d inherited all of my mother’s features, but none of the magic with which they’d come together on her face. She’d been beautiful. I was odd. Odd-looking, oddly quiet, always the odd one out.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes