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

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

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I will always protect you" he told me, his jaw tight, his eyes shadowed. "You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I'll help you with the foundation. I'll teach you what you need to know to take this life like you were born to it. But this...us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jamerson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“It would be shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”
― 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'd never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.
I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn't seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.
"Blue," I say, my voice low.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I have heard for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear”
― Holly Black, The Folk of the Air Trilogy

“We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.”

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“I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
One piece at a time.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“come home and fight with me. come home and shout at me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I have, for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear.”
― Holly Black, The Folk of the Air Trilogy

“Men would likely go extinct without women to coddle them.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Because beasts don’t get the beauty.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“The strongest weapon a woman has at her disposal is that she is often underestimated,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless