Jasmine > Jasmine's Quotes

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“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, The Inheritance Games

“It’s not just clothing. It’s a message. You’re not deciding what to wear. You’re deciding what story you want your image to tell. Are you the ingenue, young and sweet? Do you dress to this world of wealth and wonders like you were born to it, or do you want to walk the line: the same but different, young but full of steel?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I'm a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I'm no stranger to being hated”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The first scone is what I like to call the practice scone." Xander stuffed an entire scone in his mouth, handed one to me, then swallowed and continued lecturing. "It is not until the third—nay, fourth—scone that you develop any kind of scone-eating expertise."
"Scone-eating expertise," I repeated in a deadpan.
"Your nature is skeptical," Xander noted. "That will serve you well in these halls, but if there is one universal truth in the human experience, it is that a finely honed scone-eating palate does not just develop overnight.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“And from myself? I learned it’s okay to love yourself. Even the darkest parts of you. No matter the shape, size, or weirdness you came with. Embrace your scars and never be ashamed to be who you are, because there is only one of you.”
― K.A Knight, Den of Vipers

“Sometimes in life, you meet people worth dying for, and they are usually the same people who are also worth living for. But you can’t always have both.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Each person that comes into your life offers you a new world, a new place and feelings, not always good, and from each one we have the opportunity to learn. Whether we accept those lessons is on us.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“He steps closer, and this time I don’t retreat. “I lied,” he croaks. “I will follow you always. I’ll hunt you across this world. Even if you hate me, us, for it. I will drag you back kicking and screaming. Hit me, slap me, fight me. I don’t care, the pain is worth it to have you with me, darling. I love you too much to let you go. I’m too fucking selfish to let the best thing to ever happen to us walk away. You’re ours.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“They’re going to learn that money can’t buy obedience. I’m no man’s object. They are going to regret the day they took me. Vipers? Bitch, please, I bite too.”
― K.A Knight, Den of Vipers

“Throw me to the wolves, and I will come back leading the pack.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Sometimes you don’t need to find a hero, it’s enough to find someone who will stand with you in the dark and not be afraid of blood and death. No, sometimes you don’t need a hero…you need a criminal, a villain.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Seriously, Garrett, whose first thought is to slap an intruder with their cock?” She throws her hands in the air.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“When you fuck with Vipers, you get fangs.”
― K.A Knight, Den of Vipers

“That woman—she’s a fucking hurricane.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“I look at her, raise my eyebrow, and she just shrugs. “He was rude, plus that was one time…okay, maybe more than once, but honestly, people with dicks always think they know best and can act like they own you. I remind them that vaginas are stronger than dicks, as ours are inside and yours hang out…ready to be chopped off.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“So you have demons? Baby, they match mine.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“When you’re a kid, they tell you stories of monsters hiding under your bed or in the dark. They don’t tell you of the very real human ones. Those who prey on people weaker than them, or even the monsters that hide within ourselves.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“So what will I do for her? Everything.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Because Roxxane was never meant to be locked away. She is meant to be free, wild, and uncontrolled.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“I’m falling in love with you, darling,” I murmur, and she freezes. “Don’t, love has a way of changing to hate,” she whispers”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Just two broken souls meeting in a blood-stained bedroom, both lost until we are in each other’s arms.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“I got some information,” Diesel starts, his tone serious before he grins. “Roxy is a screamer. I can inform her dad now.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“I’d rather deal with the devil we know than the one we don’t.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“She will save us all. And we will damn her.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“Pissed and bored isn’t a good combination for me.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“They think they understand us, but they don’t. We’re still children to them.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 13 Minutes