Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

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.

Home is the people who love you.

Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.

When you're hurting, you hurt yourself.

In the end,_ Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, __t all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That__ what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It__ lonely. It__ impossible. It__ all-consuming._ It is what it is.

She wasn__ going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened__t didn__ change anything.

Bethany blinked. "Did you just hit me?" she asked, disbelief coloring her every feature.Skylar raised both hands, palms outward. "I come in peace!""You do not come in peace. You hit me.""I hit in peace!

Casey doesn't trust him.""Casey doesn't trust anyone," I replied. "He's paranoid like that. I mean, come on, he's a werewolf who installed a nanny cam in his kids' room." I pointed my spoon at Ali for emphasis. "A nanny cam.

Not going to walk me to the door?" I asked, pretending to be shocked at his lack of gallantry."Of course I am. many would think that a bonny lass such as yerself wouldst be able to stay out of trouble for a distance of fifteen feet, but I know better.""Did you just use the words yerself and wouldst in the same sentence? You can't be a pirate and a courtier at the same time, Dev. It just isn't done.

Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

Feeling like she really was just seven or eight, Claire sat down on the floor, books all around her, and she opened the last one she__ picked up. Even though it was dark, and even though her eyes couldn__ see the words, she knew them.Knew the little prince__ story as well as her own.She closed her eyes. She leaned her head forward against the book. And she sobbed.

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who__ never met a site she couldn__ hack or a code she couldn__ break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I__ come within five feet of a pom-pom

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?""Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.