The Inheritance Games Quotes

“Everything’s a 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.”
― 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

“As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

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

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
― 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

“why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve”
― 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

“Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― 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

“Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I am a human Rube Goldberg machine," he said. "I do simple things in complicated ways”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He's been looking for something. He's been looking for it since the day he was born.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Don't be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Thea isn't a girl. She's a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I'm a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I'm no stranger to being hated”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“It’s not just clothing. It’s a message. You’re not deciding what to wear. You’re deciding what story you want your image to tell. Are you the ingenue, young and sweet? Do you dress to this world of wealth and wonders like you were born to it, or do you want to walk the line: the same but different, young but full of steel?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“That's the thing, Mystery Girl. I don't think I'm turning anything into a riddle. I don't think I have to. You are a riddle, a puzzle, a game - my grandfather's last.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Giving money to individuals does little.” “It does a lot,” I said quietly, “for those people.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“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

“...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