The Naturals Quotes

“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“We need to talk," Dean said.
"Whatever you have to say," Michael drawled, "You can say in front of me."
I gave Michael a look.
"Whatever you have to say, you can say in front of me, unless Cassie wishes to speak to you privately, in which case I completely respect her right to do so," Michael corrected himself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“No expectations, no disappointments. [Michael Townsend]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“something about the curve of his lips was more intimate than any touch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“So take whatever time you need. Figure out how you feel. Figure out if Dean makes you feel the way I do, if he’ll ever let you in, and if you want him to, because the next time my lips touch yours, the next time your hands are buried in my hair—the only person you’re going to be thinking about is me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Studying mutilated bodies was routine. Talking to me—apparently, that was hard.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“There was nothing to ruin. [Dean Redding]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.”
― 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

“The worst feeling is when you want to go home but you are already there.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I'm not scared of this place. I'm not afraid to learn how to think like a killer, and I'm not afraid of you. [Cassandra Hobbes]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I looked at Dean, and suddenly, I could breathe.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It was warm and safe and happy-but it wasn't me. [Cassandra Hobbes]”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“My inner Boy Scout had to try.” If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I was everyone’s problem and nobody’s.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Me?” Dean couldn’t have sounded more incredulous if he’d tried. “What else is there to say?”

What was there to say?

“I don’t care.” My breath was still ragged from running. I was saying this wrong. “Your father—it doesn’t change who you are.”

“What I am,” he corrected. “And yes, it does. Why don’t you go ask Sloane what the statistics say about psychopathy and heredity? And then why don’t you ask her what they say about growing up in an environment where it’s the only thing you know.”

“I don’t care about the statistics,” I said. “We’re partners. We work together. You knew I was going to find out. You could have told me.”

“We’re not partners.”

The words hurt me—and he meant for them to.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“If looks could kill, Lia would have been dead on the floor, and I would have been on trial for murder.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I’m a mess,” she said. “By every sense of the word.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Doesn’t Judd have a rule about you wearing lingerie in the kitchen?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“What in the world had I done to attract the attention of the FBI?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You’ll always be wrong about something. You’ll always miss something. What if the UNSUB is older than you thought? What if he is a she?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“It was a game to the UNSUB. I was the prize. And if we weren’t careful, Michael and Dean were going to kill each other.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“You’re a Natural profiler,” he said finally. “You can look at a pattern of behavior and figure out the personality of the perpetrator, or guess how a given individual is likely to behave in the future.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“Put me in a room with a bunch of English people, and I’d walk out with a British accent. It wasn’t intentional—”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“When does Agent Briggs get back?” I asked.

“He’s never going to let you work on this,” Michael told me.

“Is that your way of telling me that you don’t want him to know we hacked a stolen jump drive?” I shot back.

Michael snorted. “Personally, I wouldn’t mind taking out an ad in the paper or hiring a skywriter to announce that he and Locke were outsmarted by three bored teenagers.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“A lot has happened. You have a lot to figure out. I can be a patient man, Colorado. A devastatingly handsome, roguishly scarred, heartbreakingly courageous, patient man.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals