Top 80 Jodi Meadows Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “Redemption must be earned. If we want it, we will work for it, even though we can never obtain it on our own.”

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3. “A hole in my Sam.”

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4. “I just want you. I want you forever, and I’m afraid-” His hands closed over mine. “I want a life with you. I’d give anything to go back and start this one over, to be reborn into this lifetime. I wouldn’t waste it. I’d find you sooner. I’d take you somewhere safe. I’d show you music and love and life every day so you were never alone, never afraid. If I could start over knowing what I know now-.”

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5. “There’s always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you’ll become.”

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6. “I think I died to be reborn with you.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “Tobiah was Black Knife.”

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9. “I don’t flee. I evade.”

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10. “I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.”

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11. “No matter the masks we wear, we always end up together.”

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12. “He smiles now, in spite of everything.” She hesitated and dropped her voice. “He smiles at you.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “It is human nature to avoid what makes us uncomfortable.”

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15. “It isn’t easy to trust or be close to someone when the person I love won’t even follow his own heart.”

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16. “I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we’d lost. And James for the hope he still carried.”

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17. “A queen who wouldn’t take risks for her people wasn’t worthy of being a queen at all.”

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18. “Wishing has never changed anything for me.”

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19. “He nodded, brushed hair off my face, and headed from the kitchen. “I hate being a teenager.” “Why?” “Hormones.” With a sad half smile, he left.”

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20. “I’m not trying to rescue you, but I am trying to help you succeed. There’s a difference.”

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21. “I was there was the war began. And when it ended.”

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22. “Recognize this now,” I wanted to say. “Recognize that I love you and when you do this, there’s a part of me that will never recover.”

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23. “Ana leaned close and whispered, “I’ve been reborn.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “You don’t know what I am, anymore. You cannot fathom what I’ve endured. Don’t imagine you’ve tamed me.”

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26. “Come with me. Help me tonight. Help me save others. – Black Knife.”

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27. “He held on to me like I was a rock, the only thing keeping him from drifting out with the tide of dark memories. It was the first time I realized he need me too.”

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28. “The prince’s blood was on my hands.”

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29. “I, Patrick Lien, son of General Brendon Lien, do hereby swear my life to helping Princess Wilhelmina Korte reclaim her kingdom, no matter the cost.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “Yes, I leaned toward desperate danger; I would do anything for my people.”

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32. “A thousand years from now, even if I was never reborn, people would remember me: Ana Incarnate.”

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33. “Anxiety rushed in without warning. It came like thunder as my heart raced louder in my ears. It came like the sea over my head as my lungs struggled to expand. It came like a swarm of gnats crawling over my skin, itching, burning, complete in their distraction.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Sometimes we hate others for the things we hate in ourselves.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “But my head buzzed and my vision tunneled, like the anxiety didn’t care that I had no energy for another attack right now. The anxiety never cared.”

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38. “I hate not knowing the truth.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “I like to think I get it from being me.”

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41. “Don’t be silly. You’re not Black Knife. Everyone knows Princess Wilhelmina is that awful vigilante.”

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42. “I was going to have to face the man who’d destroyed my kingdom, and the boy who was the reason.”

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43. “Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you.”

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44. “Imperfections reveal true beauty.”

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45. “Because they don’t have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Oh, nameless girl. When will you learn to trust me?”

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50. “I have to get out,” I told Sam. “I need to get away. Will you go with me?” “Anywhere,” he said and kissed me.”

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