The best Book Quotes (Page 2)

Power was as much a fact of life for this guy as gravity. The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

"Three questions," I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke.
"One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?"

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Taken by Storm

I could feel his heart beating, feel his mind and thoughts blending with my own as the two of us stood there, bathed in the moonlight and feeling its effects like a drug.
Whoever Chase was, he was mine.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in Raised by Wolves - Trial by Fire

Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery - some things are too precious to gamble.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Final Gambit

Love declerations

Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said.
"This is one of them."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Hugs

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

Gambling

You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Foolishness

"None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

I'm just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Privacy & Data

"A guy who thinks he knows everything," I muttered. "That's new."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Scars

Knowing that Mr. Yates was infamous for giving impossible tests had made me want to redefine possible.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Something about the curve of his lips was more intimate than any touch.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Lips

I'd gone my whole life without romance. I didn't need it, not the way I needed this: being part of something, caring about people in a way that I hadn't realized I still could. Not just Michael and Dean, but Sloane and even Lia. I fit here. I hadn't fit anywhere in a very long time.

Maybe ever.

I couldn't screw that up.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals - Killer Instinct

No expectations, no disappointments.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Expectations Disappointment

"Ever had your life ruined by someone with the last name Hawthorne?" Alisa continued.
I stared at her, then managed to answer more confidently this time. "No."
Alisa smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. "Lucky you."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

"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 in The Naturals

Jane Austen

If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Doesn't Judd have a rule about you wearing lingerie in the kitchen?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't, it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Grayson Hawthorne was arrogant enough to consider himself bulletproof - and honorable enough to see a promise through to its end.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

"Getting involved with Jameson would just be throwing gasoline on the fire."
"And what a lovely fire it would be."

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Secrets are like shadows. They follow you everywhere, always hiding just out of reach.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Secrets

Why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

...never lose your heart to a Hawthorne.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

She was an apology cupcake baker. A guilty cupcake baker. A please-don't-be-mad-at-me cupcake baker.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

It wasn't my best look, but I'd gone to school with the same kids my whole life. I was wallpaper. No one was looking.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

"Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games - The Hawthorne Legacy

Latin Phrases

Nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Racism

Name one hero who was happy.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Heros

I am made of memories.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Memories

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Lions

"There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?"

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

You're in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love's not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It'll never be enough. I want eternity.

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

"I had sex," Drew said with a grin. "Lot's and lots and lots of sex... Hey, no use in good energy going to waste."

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, "But you've got an advantage, sweetheart. You're already in his head. And you know how to mess with it."

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover.

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.

Nalini Singh in Kiss of Snow

Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.

Casey McQuiston in One Last Stop

Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life.

Casey McQuiston in One Last Stop

Love declerations

But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.

Casey McQuiston in One Last Stop

Falling in love

The older she's gotten, the more she prefers thinking of love as a hobby for other people, like rock climbing or knitting. Fine, enviable even, but she doesn't feel like investing in the equipment.

Casey McQuiston in One Last Stop

Love

When you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.

Casey McQuiston in One Last Stop