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“this isn’t our true home, girlie. This life … well, it’s just a great big adventure while we have it. An adventure to enjoy and love with all of our heart before we go on to the greatest adventure of all.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“Mamaw’s hand stayed on my cheek. “You’ll still see me in your dreams. This isn’t a goodbye.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“No tears, girlie. This isn’t the end. It’s just a little pause in our lives. And I’ll be watching over you, every single day. I’ll be in your heart. I’ll be in the blossom grove that we love so much, in the sun and the wind.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“You’re going to kiss a boy, for your jar? A special one? One that you love?” he asked. I nodded. “A thousand kisses, Rune! A thousand!” Rune shook his head and his lips pursed again. “NO!” he roared. The smile fell from my face. “What?” I asked. Rune took a step closer, shaking his head harder. “No! I don’t want you kissing a boy for your jar! I won’t let it happen!” “But—”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“opened my mouth to shout back at him, to tell him this was an adventure I just had to start. But as I did, Rune leaned forward and suddenly pressed his lips to mine.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I’ll give you a thousand kisses, Poppymin. All of them. No one will kiss you ever, but me.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I wish that people realized how this felt every day. Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Dean,” Michael continued, staring at Dean and talking to me, “knows more about the way that killers think than just about anyone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I have no idea what those Cheerios did to you, but I’m sure they’re very, very sorry,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“The FBI hides us away in a nice little house in a nice little neighborhood in a nice little town. Do you really think Briggs is going to let me tag along on prison interviews? Or go into the field, where I might actually get to do something?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Michael reached up to scratch the side of his face—and oh-so-subtly flipped Agent Locke off in the process.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“But did I really love them, the way I’d loved my mom? Could I love anyone like that again?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I dare you,” Lia said, relishing each and every word, “to kiss Dean.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I knelt next to the fireplace. I put one hand on his cheek, and I brought my lips to his. It was a friendly kiss. A European hello. Our mouths only touched for a second—but I felt it, electric, all the way to my toes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Ninety percent of all serial killers are”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“male.” Sloane announced her presence, then walked up to join us. “Seventy-six percent are American, with a substantial percentage of serial murders concentrated in California, Texas, New York, and Illinois. The vast majority of serial killers are Caucasian, and over eighty-nine percent of victims of serial crimes are Caucasian as well.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You didn’t have trouble coming to Dean for advice when he was twelve,” I said, unable to stop myself. “Why stop now?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Michael leaned forward and brushed his lips against mine. Then he pulled back and studied my face. Whatever he saw there, he liked. “Thank you,” he said. “That’s all I needed to know.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“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, The Naturals

“until Daniel Redding asked Briggs a question about his son. Dean.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Dean’s father was a serial killer. While I was traveling the country with my mom, Dean had been living twenty yards away from the shack where his father tortured and killed at least a dozen women.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“My mother…” I took a short breath and brutally expelled it. “I don’t know what my mother’s body looked like,” I said finally, “but I do know that she was attacked with a knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“photograph. “I don’t think she dyed her hair red,” I said. “I think the killer did.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I’m saying this killer has a very specific type: people who resemble my mother.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I don’t think he’s killing them. I think he’s killing her again. And I’m not just some stupid kid anymore. I’m a profiler. A Natural. But even so—who’s going to believe me?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You put the card on top of the package. You scrawl her name on the outside, each letter a labor of love. C-A-S-S-I-E.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“From me, to you.” Lia arched an eyebrow and tossed the card back on the table. “How romantic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“And then I screamed. Nestled in the tissue paper was a lock of red hair.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals