Jodi Meadows Quotes & Sayings

Fear doesn't excuse a hundred years of oppression and abuse. — Jodi Meadows

I'm not going to waste time being angry about things I can't control. If I only have one life, I should make the most of it. — Jodi Meadows

What I want." I slid my hands over him until cloth folded between my fingers. "I don't even know what that is. It feels like too much, but I'll fall apart if I don't get it. — Jodi Meadows

The best mask is a face no one will remember — Jodi Meadows

I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we'd lost. And James for the hope he still carried. — Jodi Meadows

I'm going,' he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave. — Jodi Meadows

You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you? — Jodi Meadows

It suddenly seemed he knew me better than anyone in the world. Better than anyone ever would.
He'd seen my deepest need, buried so far I'd hardly been aware of it.
( ... ) they would remember me.
Thanks to Sam, I was Immortal — Jodi Meadows

You're so optimistic. It's not what I expected from a vigilante who calls himself Black Knife."
"Well, I considered Optimistic Knife, but I didn't think anyone would take it seriously. — Jodi Meadows

Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite. — Jodi Meadows

I like the way you fight."
Was that a compliment?
"It's very efficient. Who taught you?"
"Your grandmother."...
"That seems unlikely. My grandmother preferred sewing to fighting. — Jodi Meadows

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor. — Jodi Meadows

What happened after death? Where did you go? What did you do? The scariest possibility was that we might. just. stop. — Jodi Meadows

I do trust you." I bumped my elbow against his, a pathetic attempt at levity, but he caught me, turned me, and held me in place. We stood dangerously close. "It's myself I don't always trust," I whispered.
"That's strange." He released my arm and took a step backward. "I trust you, but I don't always trust myself. — Jodi Meadows

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire. — Jodi Meadows

It seems love is the most important thing. Someone who doesn't love us and uses us to hurt others was never worth our devotion. — Jodi Meadows

And sometimes we finally grow wise enough to understand life is a gift that can't- shouldn't- last forever. — Jodi Meadows

Who am I?" My first spoken words.
"No one," she said. "Nosoul. — Jodi Meadows

My heart wasn't big enough to hold everything I felt, but I couldn't bear the thought of asking him to wait while I caught up. — Jodi Meadows

No matter what happens, I want that piece of music to live. When people hear it, I want them to think about what we tried to do, regardless of whether we succeed. And I want them to know that without you, Ana Incarnate, whatever Janna had planned would have just happened without opposition. You opened our eyes. I want that legacy to continue. — Jodi Meadows

Souls are sentience, an essence born into a new body when the old one dies. — Jodi Meadows

I like to think I get it from being me. — Jodi Meadows

Wil. Of course. - Tobiah — Jodi Meadows

Ana leaned close and whispered, I've been reborn. — Jodi Meadows

No matter the masks we wear, we always end up together. — Jodi Meadows

The prince's blood was on my hands. — Jodi Meadows

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become. — Jodi Meadows

There was musuc in me, but in this post-Cataclysm world, that didn't matter very much. — Jodi Meadows

Well. That was bound to be a loving marriage with no problems whatsoever. — Jodi Meadows

Sam hauled open the library door.
"There you are!" Whit pushed up from the desk he'd been hunched over. "We thought you two had given up on us."
"Unlike some people I know," I said, removing my mittens and scarf, "we don't live here."
"She says that now." Sam followed me toward Whit's and Orrin's desks, where they worked over flat electronic screens. "But the first thing she said when I showed her the library was that we should move in."
Orrin lifted an eyebrow, oddly delicate for someone so large. "The acoustics would be terrible. — Jodi Meadows

What's more frightening? The known or the unknown? — Jodi Meadows

That's why everyone focuses on the present and future. The past is too painful when you remember how lives end. Often abruptly. — Jodi Meadows

There's this truth about mirrors. It's inescapable. But they can lie, too. They can distort the truth, even hide the truth. They create illusion. — Jodi Meadows

I'm surprised no one's come to greet you," Sam murmured.
"Gawk. Not greet. — Jodi Meadows

I miss it," she said. "That certainty of knowing we were right and we would take bake our kingdom because of our rightness - that was comforting. Now everything seems so gray. — Jodi Meadows

Scared people are creative people. — Jodi Meadows

We are your army. — Jodi Meadows

There's no crime in curiosity. — Jodi Meadows

Oh, nameless girl. When will you learn to trust me? — Jodi Meadows

Maybe my descendants will make better choices where I failed."
"Your descendants? Are you planning on having a lot of descendants?"
"One day I'd like a whole army of tiny vigilantes."
"A worthy goal. — Jodi Meadows

Not insane, just stupid. — Jodi Meadows

I'm not trying to rescue you, but I am trying to help you succeed. There's a difference. — Jodi Meadows

I wasn't concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him. — Jodi Meadows

Authenticity was the key to any deception.
Sometimes authenticity was disgusting. — Jodi Meadows

Simple things are often the most challenging. — Jodi Meadows

I was there was the war began. And when it ended. — Jodi Meadows

I'd give anything to make things right for you." He caressed my cheek, my hair, my back. Everywhere he touched, the angry fires cooled. I wished he'd touch my heart. "But I can't. I can help, but the hard work is all up to you. If you don't feel real, no one else can do it for you. I promise, though you've always felt real to me. From the moment I saw you jump off the cliff."
"Sometimes I feel like I'm still jumping off the cliff. — Jodi Meadows

In my experience, friendship happens naturally. By talking, doing things together, learning. — Jodi Meadows

I regret I didn't wear a jacket, or I'd give it to you."
"I still have my wings. It wouldn't fit."
"I'd carry them for you."
"They're attached to the dress. It was the only way I could get them to stay."
He squeezed my hand, tone mischievous. "In that case, I'd be especially happy to carry the wings."
"Sam!"
"It wouldn't be the first time I've seen you without clothes."
"Sam! — Jodi Meadows

Just accept it, Ana. You can't stop your friends from loving you. You can't stop Sam from feeling the way he does. You know I admire that you question things, but this - this doesn't have to be one of them. — Jodi Meadows

Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim alcoves. I had no idea what stories or information they held. It didn't matter. I wanted to absorb anything they had to say. — Jodi Meadows

I let go of my wings.
Not a nosoul. Not a butterfly.
A thousand years from now, even if I was never reborn, people would remember me. Ana Incarnate. — Jodi Meadows

My butterfly dress was visible on the washroom floor, bent and shredded wings and all. Cheeks hot, I remember what he'd suggested before someone shot him.
His eyes found the dress too. I was teasing about that. Unless you were looking forward to it. Then I meant every word. — Jodi Meadows

I had to drop my head back to meet his eyes, and the way he said my name
it was the same reverence people used in their prayers to Janan. — Jodi Meadows

A queen who wouldn't take risks for her people wasn't worthy of being a queen at all. — Jodi Meadows

Just because you want friends with you doesn't make you selfish. It makes you human. And even when we think something's an unwise idea, that doesn't mean we've stopped believing in you. I will never stop believing in you. What I said about believing you can do anything, be anything
I still think that. I still admire that you don't let others' limitations stop you. I love that about you. I love you. — Jodi Meadows

Did you have friend?"
"I've read about them, but I don't believe they exist."
"Your cynicism is amazing. — Jodi Meadows

I don't want to lose you," he whispered again. "And I didn't want to be lost. — Jodi Meadows

I was an afterthought, five thousand years later. A mistake, because Ciana was gone. I was the dissonant note on the end of a masterpiece symphony. I was the brushstroke that ruined the painting. — Jodi Meadows

Ana, you make me ache in places that aren't even physical. — Jodi Meadows

I have to get out," I told Sam. "I need to get away. Will you go with me?" "Anywhere," he said and kissed me. — Jodi Meadows

Wishing has never changed anything for me. — Jodi Meadows

Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent. — Jodi Meadows

Like a phoenix bursting into flame and a rain of sparks before being reborn in its own ashes, it had taken burning up in my own misery for me to realize I didn't need other people to believe in me before I could do something. I had to believe in myself. — Jodi Meadows

Because they don't have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon. — Jodi Meadows

I wanted to value life, all life, regardless of how despicable some of it could be. — Jodi Meadows

It's difficult to focus on my studies when my best friend is struggling to get through the hour."
He hesitated. "So I'm your best friend now?"
My cheeks heated, and I shrugged. "It was between you and Sarit, and you have the piano. She just has honey. — Jodi Meadows

It was our relationship, so what other people thought shouldn't matter. — Jodi Meadows

It isn't easy to trust or be close to someone when the person I love won't even follow his own heart. — Jodi Meadows

It is human nature to avoid what makes us uncomfortable. — Jodi Meadows

James said you called yourself a nameless girl... Oh, nameless girl... When will you learn to trust me?"
I turned my hand over to find the Black Knife mask.
My heart tumbled and twisted. "You?" Tobiah was Black Knife? — Jodi Meadows

They don't need Janan to be stopped, any more than the earth needs the moon to orbit it. The world would change without the moon, but the earth would still exist. — Jodi Meadows

I'd done the impossible. I'd spoken with dragons. I'd survived. I'd kept the dragons from attacking my friends because I was a very frightening tiny person with little regard for her own life. — Jodi Meadows

Music overwhelmed me, soaked into my skin like water. I didn't have words for the squiggles and dashes across the pages, or the way his fingers stretched across the keys to make my heart race. If I could hear only one thing for the rest of my life, this was what I wanted. — Jodi Meadows

Redemption must be earned. If we want it, we will work for it, even though we can never obtain it on our own. — Jodi Meadows

Our lives were short, brutal, and would never have enough music. — Jodi Meadows

Do you know how hard it is to climb over a roof while wearing a gown?"
A sly smile welled up in the corner of his mouth. "None of the court ladies will loan me a gown to try. — Jodi Meadows

Sam said nothing about it, as though he spontaneously composed music with nature all the time. — Jodi Meadows

There was no telling if I'd be reborn when I died, but the waltz began and ended with my four notes. He'd built the music around things that reminded him of me. And now this name. My name. — Jodi Meadows

Yes, I leaned toward desperate danger; I would do anything for my people. — Jodi Meadows

If I were going to fight and steal, It'd be because I had no choice. It would be for survival. — Jodi Meadows

My courage was as thin as silk, but I held it around me like armor and urged myself up the stairs, dragging the remains of my dignity. — Jodi Meadows

I was going to have to face the man who'd destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason. — Jodi Meadows

Taking me out to robberies, bar fights, and wraith houses isn't enough for you anymore? I though we were happy."
"Only the best for you, my lady. — Jodi Meadows

Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it. — Jodi Meadows

Liadia broke the Wraith Alliance."
Black Knife stilled. "How do you know that?"
"A refugee told me."
"Who?"
"I didn't ask for a name. I didn't want you to go after anyone, if you found out."
He tilted his head a fraction. "You don't trust me?"
"Of course not. You're a vigilante. — Jodi Meadows

It wasn't an easy, sweet kiss like I'd imagined my first would be, but frustrated and hungry. That was good, better than easy and sweet, because after everything, I was frustrated and hungry for him, too. — Jodi Meadows

I hate not knowing the truth. — Jodi Meadows

Sam." I felt like I was choking. Or drowning. Maybe some of both. He stopped walking, at any rate. "You asked how I'd know who you were."
Silence.
"I'll always know. — Jodi Meadows

If you think that trusting someone - allowing them to help you by performing their own duties honorably - somehow makes you less, then it might be time to reexamine yourself. Start asking why you need to do everything. How can you really be close to someone if you never let them in?" "Forgive — Jodi Meadows

Ana is convinced she can bake anything."
"I can. I'm going to make tarts and you're going to like them."
Stef grinned. "If you need help putting out fires, I'm next door. — Jodi Meadows

I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me. — Jodi Meadows

Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars. — Jodi Meadows

The mirrors were an expensive superstition. — Jodi Meadows

Not even the strongest could defend against everything. Not forever. — Jodi Meadows

please don't hurt me again; be the person I need you to be; show me what it means to be in love so I can decide whether that's what I feel. — Jodi Meadows

The Ospreys, these children, were my life. Without them, I had nothing. But with them ... With them, I would take back my kingdom. — Jodi Meadows

Come with me. Help me tonight. Help me save others. - Black Knife — Jodi Meadows

Friendship isn't reserved for people who've been reincarnated over and over. — Jodi Meadows

I narrowed my eyes. I don't trust you.
I don't trust you,either.
So we don't move.
Ever? He met my eyes again,and searched me. — Jodi Meadows