Games Untold Quotes

“I loved you,” he whispered, “when the world was pain and the only thing that made sense was your eyes. I loved you before I knew to hate myself, and I have loved you every day since.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius. It goes both ways.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Like the sun and the moon
I loved her.
Saint Avery.
Until death and beyond.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Nash moves across the aisle to sit next to me. He puts his hand under my chin and raises my eyes to meet his. “Don’t you ever apologize for the things you’ve survived.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Fear wasn’t just ice in your veins or a beast at your throat. Fear was loving someone so fiercely that there was no point in your heart beating if hers did not.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“You are fiendish, Avery Kylie Grambs. As far as distractions go, that one wasn't even fair."

I shrugged. "I play dirty.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Don’t you ever apologize for the things you’ve survived.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Anything is possible,” Kaylie said, “when you love someone with no regrets.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“On good nights, I read until I fell asleep, wrapping myself in fantasy worlds like they were blankets.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“This is exactly why I am an optimist. I’ve always had to be one. Sometimes, believing the best in people who don’t deserve it, believing that they love you even if they don’ —sometimes, that’s all a person can do to survive.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“You're Hawthornes," the old man said. "If you're going to do something- and I do consider wrestling to be something- then do it well. Do it right.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“No one ever expected a Xander Inquisition.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“If Harry was humble, I was the Queen of England.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Like the sun and the moon I loved her. Saint Avery. Until death and beyond.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Found you,” I said. Once upon a time, I’d been a more gracious winner, but now I relished my victories like a Hawthorne.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Dance with me, you beautiful bitch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Tinsel bombs are strongly encouraged,” Jameson added. This was, quite possibly, the single most Hawthorne thing I’d ever heard of.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Xander was no stranger to bad ideas. Or unusual ideas. Or the occasional this-is-either-brilliant-or-an-offense-against-common-sense-and-gravity idea. He was, in fact, a connoisseur of ideas, swishing even the most outlandish possibilities around in his mind and taking a delicate little taste.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Don’t stop,” Kaylie told me fiercely. “Living. Loving. Dancing. Don’t you dare stop”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Our kind of game.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“But your family is weird. And that’s coming from me.” The difference is that Hawthornes are weird the way that Stonehenge is weird—magnificent and inexplicable. Hawthornes are invisible-ink weird. Hidden-passageways and secret-traditions weird. They are—and this is an actual example—I-dare-you-to-lick-that-Picasso weird.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“You have a secret, I thought. “All right, Hawthorne,” I told him. “Game on.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Always read the small print, Heiress.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“A refined scone-tasting palate does not develop overnight."
Max narrowed her eyes. "Scones are muffins that got confused.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Somehow, Grayson Hawthorne managed to make that sound like the world’s most reasonable question.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“I smile a cowboy kind of smile to go with the hat. “I’ve always been good at waiting.” At dreaming. At hoping. And I am done punishing myself for that.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“I have spent my entire life wanting to be normal and special, wanting to be both of those things at the exact same time, even though they are pretty much opposites.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“And don’t miss me too much, okay?” This felt like good-bye. No. “Absolutely no naming your children after me,” Kaylie continued, twirling, her arms held wide. “I mean, I guess a middle name would be okay—an homage, not Kaylie exactly.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“There’s a difference,” he says in that Texas drawl of his, unhurried and smooth, “between showin’ off and deciding you’re done giving a damn about people who expect you to dim your light so they can feel more like the sun.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Don’t stop. Living. Loving. Dancing.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection