“Reasons we should get married:
Because I love you.
We both look good in black boots.
I spent some time without you, and I didn’t like it.
You make me happy.
I make you laugh.
I like the way you fight.
You see through my masks.
I really love you.
You love me, too. (Though you’ve mostly said this while yelling, so perhaps I should have double-checked.)
Army of tiny vigilantes. (I have name ideas.)
Various political reasons that make sense but don’t fit with the theme of this list.
I’m holding your handwriting hostage. You can have it back when you say yes.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“No matter the masks we wear, we always end up together.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“Sometimes we hate others for the things we hate in ourselves”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“I'm not trying to rescue you, but I am trying to help you succeed. There's a difference.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“The prince's blood was on my hands.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“The best mask is a face no one will remember”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“You don’t know what I am, anymore. You cannot fathom what I’ve endured. Don’t imagine you’ve tamed me.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Not even the strongest could defend against everything. Not forever.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Imagine what could happen if we stopped fighting each other and started fighting our enemies. You and me together.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“He smiles now, in spite of everything." She hesitated and dropped her voice. "He smiles at you.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“Fear doesn't excuse a hundred years of oppression and abuse.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Would dream-me threaten to split you from stomach to sternum only a day after healing you from a similar injury?"
He gave a soft snort. "Yes. Absolutely.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Sometimes we hate others for the things we hate in ourselves.” He”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“It is human nature to avoid what makes us uncomfortable.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars: a contradiction made of glass and shiny backing.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we'd lost. And James for the hope he still carried.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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.” Like”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“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, quote from The Mirror King
“But the Indigo Kingdom conquered Aecor during the One-Night War. It belongs to me, and to my uncle, as much as I want you to have your kingdom, we both must wait."
"Until when? Until the barrier is built? Until the wraith has flooded the Indigo Valley? Until there is nowhere to go but Aecor? I imagine my kingdom will be very useful to you then.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“Psychology’s loss,” said Strike, “is private detection’s gain.”
― Robert Galbraith, quote from Career of Evil
“Before I left home I cut my hair close to my scalp so I could be a free woman with free thoughts, open to all possibilities. I was making a map of the world. In ancient times maps were made to help people find food, water, and the way back home. I needed a map to help me find love and language and since one didn't exist, I'd have to invent one, following the trails and signs left by other travelers. I didn't know what I wanted to be, but I knew I wanted to be the kind of woman who was bold, took chances, and had adventures. I wanted to travel around the world. It was my little-girl dream.”
― Shay Youngblood, quote from Black Girl in Paris
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and those few aspects that were disguised or hidden were that way because they were his closely kept emotions. When on those rare occasions he allowed his emotions to be seen, their appearance was all the more surprising. And more powerful. Which taught her early on a thing or two about the power of what's visible -- it derives its mystery from what it hides. How many stories had she heard of people sensing ghosts behind the walls, hobgoblins in the woods? People living on the shores of lakes since time began have conjured creatures from those depths. If you believe a thing is something different from the evidence before you, if you believe something is hidden by the wall or in the woods or beneath the surface of the lake, then that belief gives power to the darkness and the depths -- power to enchant; to terrify.”
― Marianne Wiggins, quote from Evidence of Things Unseen
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from All's Well That Ends Well
“to dinner and would get very”
― Willow Rose, quote from One, Two ... He Is Coming For You
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