“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
“Nothing says hell has to be fire.”
― Robert Goolrick, quote from A Reliable Wife
“Your gravity, your grace have turned a tide
In me, no lunar power can reverse;
But in your narcoleptic eyes I spied
A sightlessness tonight: or something worse,
A disregard that made me feel unmanned.
Meanwhile, insomniac, I catch my breath
To think I saw my future traced in sand
One afternoon "as still, as carved, as death,”
And pray for an oblivion so deep
It ends in transformation. Only dawn
Can save me, flood this haunted house of sleep
With light, and drown the thoughts that nightly warn:
Another lifetime is the least you’ll need, to trace
The guarded secrets of her gravity, her grace.”
― Jonathan Coe, quote from The House of Sleep
“As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings—I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us.”
― Harper Lee, quote from Go Set a Watchman
“Music is my one necessary tool. I put on music that fits the mood of what I'm writing, to help me stay in the zone and get the emotional tone right.”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
“He wrapped his hand around the back of her neck and massaged gently. “Listen to me, Cat, because I’ll only say this once. You’re the finest Lady I’ve ever met and the dearest friend I’ve ever had. Besides that, I love you like a brother, and any bastard who hurts my little sister is going to answer to me.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Heir to the Shadows
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