The Inheritance Games Quotes

“He was arrogant and awful and had spent the first week of our acquaintance dead set on making my life hell. He was still half in love with Emily Laughlin. But from the first moment I'd seen him, looking away had been nearly impossible. And at the end of the day, he'd chosen me. Over family. Over his mother.”
― 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

“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“THAT FAXING CHIPHEAD CAN GO STRAIGHT TO ELF AND EAT A BAG OF DUCKS!!!”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“He gently traced the line of my jaw. “I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.” He thought he could protect me. He wanted to. He was touching me, and all I wanted was to let him. Let him protect me. Let him touch me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“I'm sorry, Max."
She made a dismissive sound. "Yeah, well, the next time someone tries to shoot you, you're going to have buy me something really nice to make it up to me. Like Australia."
"You want me to buy you a trip to Australia?" I asked, thinking that could probably be arranged.
"No." Her reply was pert. "I want you to buy me Australia. You can afford it."
I snorted. "I don't think it's for sale."
"Then I guess that you have no choice but to avoid getting shot at."
"I'll be careful," I promised.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I wasn't delusional. I wasn't dreaming.
I was an heiress.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Dearest Avery, I’m sorry. —T. T. H.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“A very risky gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“There were people out there who might live or die because of me, futures good or bad might be realized because of my choices.
What right did I even have to be the one making them?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Hands reached past me to turn on the faucet. I should have jumped. I should have panicked. But somehow, my body relaxed into the person behind me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“What the elf, Avery? What the everlasting mothing-foxing elf is going on there?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Forty-six point two billion dollars, I thought, my heart attacking my rib cage and my mouth sandpaper-dry. Tobias Hawthorne was worth forty-six point two billion dollars, and he left his grandsons a million dollars, combined. A hundred thousand total to his daughters. Another half million to his servants, an annuity for Nan...
The math in this equation did not add up. It couldn't add up.
One by one, the other occupants of the room of the room turned to stare at me.
'The remainder of my estate,' Mr. Ortega read, 'including all properties, monetary assets, and worldly possessions not otherwise specified, I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“But for the record, little sis, you’re a minor, and I’m still your legal guardian. The next time someone tries to shoot you, I damn well want to know.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Jameson, Better the devil you know than the one you don’t—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I. Don’t judge. —Tobias Tattersall Hawthorne”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“Xander dusted his hands off on his pants. “Secret passage,” he said, then attempted to dust off his pant legs with his hands. “This place is full of them.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“What fun is it playing by other people's rules?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked.
"Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Where are you going?” I asked him. [...] “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Is this all just a game to you?”
“Everything’s game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Everyone had things they found inexplicably attractive. Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word ‘empirically’ and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“you have to see the world to change it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games