Daisy

“But somewhere around a hundred and fifty miles an hour, I stopped thinking about should. Adrenaline. Euphoria. Fear. There wasn’t room in my head for anything else. Speed was the only thing that mattered. That, and the boy beside me. I didn’t want him to slow down. I didn’t want the car to stop. For the first time since the reading of the will, I felt free. No questions. No suspicions. No one staring or not staring. Nothing except this moment, right here, right now. Nothing except Jameson Winchester Hawthorne and me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I felt... numb wasn't the right word. My mouth was too dry. My heart was beating too fast. I hurt, but it felt like I was hurting from a distance.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Do you trust me?” I was standing in a phone-lit passageway, close enough to feel his body’s heat on mine. “Absolutely not.” “Good.” He reached out, grabbed my hand, and pulled me close. “Hold on.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games