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“Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It was a game to the UNSUB. I was the prize. And if we weren’t careful, Michael and Dean were going to kill each other.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

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

“Home isn't a place, Cassie.' The memory crept up on me. '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

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

“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you. Forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Your mama always did have an eye for good-looking men." This was Ree, trying to be diplomatic. "Then again, she also had an eye for trouble."

Not that diplomatic.

Ree narrowed her eyes at Dean. "You trouble?" she asked.

"No, ma'am."

She turned to Michael. "You?"

He offered her his most charming smile. "One hundred percent."

Ree snorted. "That's what I thought.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“When you're hurting, you hurt yourself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“I love you.” Dean lifted the words from my mind. “Today, tomorrow, covered in blood, haunted and waking up in the middle of the night screaming—I love you, Cassie, and I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I didn't need to be fixed. I just needed...to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You are who you are, and you like what you like. You are you, and that's a lovely person to be.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes—they just leave.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip