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“No,” Xander said, his voice suddenly serious. “But sometimes a person’s brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you’re inside that loop, you can’t see past it. You’ll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they’re outside the loop. Distractions aren’t just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop, and once you’re out, once your brain stops cycling—” “You see the things you missed before.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

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

“Nash, I’ve cued up the Taylor Swift for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I guess that’s what happens,” Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, “when you take a very risky gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit