Top 50 Sophie Jordan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What good is safety if you’re dead inside?”

— Sophie Jordan

2. “I’ll find you. I will. We’ll be together again.”

— Sophie Jordan

3. “He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. “I do”, I admit.”

— Sophie Jordan

4. “Leaning down, he whispers for my ears alone. “Prove them wrong.”

— Sophie Jordan

5. “We can’t stop loving and caring about others just because it hurts when we lose them.”

— Sophie Jordan

6. “I will never see him again. Never know why he let me go. Never learn if he really whispered what I think he did. Beautiful.”

— Sophie Jordan

7. “I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.”

— Sophie Jordan

8. “His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.”

— Sophie Jordan

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9. “After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn’t register on my fear radar.”

— Sophie Jordan

10. “The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.”

— Sophie Jordan

11. “Hope is all there is. All we have. And love. Or what’s the point of any of it?”

— Sophie Jordan

12. “A hunter in love with his prey.”

— Sophie Jordan

13. “Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We’re long overdue.”

— Sophie Jordan

14. “My wings grow, slightly longer than the length of my back. The gossamer width of them pushes free. They unfurl with a soft whisper on the air – a sigh. As if they, too, seek relief. Freedom.”

— Sophie Jordan

15. “I wouldn’t have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute I decided I wanted you. I wouldn’t leave until I convinced you that you were mine.”

— Sophie Jordan

16. “You have my word. If you return with me, you won’t be harmed. I’d die first.”

— Sophie Jordan

17. “The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then.”

— Sophie Jordan

18. “Didn’t she know yet? People you loved, the ones you cared about the most, they all died eventually. No one was spared. When you lost them, everything you had, all of your heart, was lost, too. It crippled you. Left you an empty shell, functioning on instinct alone. “You’re horrible,” she whispered, so softly that.”

— Sophie Jordan

19. “Some of us are killers. It’s in our blood... that ability. It doesn’t mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we’re just... better equipped to do it. Some people don’t have it in them, but we do. You’ll feel a lot better once you accept that.”

— Sophie Jordan

20. “He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.”

— Sophie Jordan

21. “What happened to you, baby?”

— Sophie Jordan

22. “Cassian looks at me intently, his eyes more black than purple right then. The purple only shows itself when he’s feeling emotion. A rarity it seems.”

— Sophie Jordan

23. “But she wasn’t a fool either. Better than anyone she knew how easy it was to become a victim. It didn’t mean you were weak or stupid. It didn’t mean you had done anything wrong. More often than not it meant you were unlucky enough to run smack into a giant douchebag bent on all manner of assholery.”

— Sophie Jordan

24. “Character is what you do when no one’s looking.”

— Sophie Jordan

25. “Things happen. Things that you think you’ll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.”

— Sophie Jordan

26. “For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don’t want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that’s fallen low. Even if I am.”

— Sophie Jordan

27. “I wont let him have you.”

— Sophie Jordan

28. “Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I’ll follow. I’ll track you down and find you.”

— Sophie Jordan

29. “People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?”

— Sophie Jordan

30. “Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can’t give him up. He’s the other part of me. He gets what it feels like to be separate from everything and everyone, to reject the path others lay out for you. We’re the same. Two sides to the same coin.”

— Sophie Jordan

31. “Exactly what he wanted me to do. Exactly what they all thought I would do. Everyone in here. Everyone out there in the world. A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent.”

— Sophie Jordan

32. “He steps onto the sidewalk and rocks on the balls of his feet. He looks beautiful standing there, and a familiar ache starts in my chest as I wonder how I can love and fear the sight of someone with the same intensity.”

— Sophie Jordan

33. “The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.”

— Sophie Jordan

34. “My imprint is there for the world to see. I don’t try to hide it with my hair or a high collar. When I got ready for school this morning, I kept thinking of Sean. How proud he appears. Unapologetic. And I want to be like that. I don’t want to look cowed or ashamed. I may not want to be this, but I don’t want to be that girl, either. I don’t want to be afraid.”

— Sophie Jordan

35. “I felt her heart pounding against her ribs and directly into me. Or maybe it was my heart. Curled against each other like two locked pieces of a puzzle, I could not tell where I ended and she began. There was just this. Us. One shared heart.”

— Sophie Jordan

36. “I only know that I can’t live without flight. Without sky and moist, breathing earth.”

— Sophie Jordan

37. “I want you,” he said starkly, the barest quiver in his hoarse voice. “Me and you. Together.” He drew in a deep breath, his broad chest lifting. “But I can’t chase you forever.”

— Sophie Jordan

38. “Just because we are carriers doesn’t mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it’s every man for himself... then all is lost. We’ve become the monsters they say we are.”

— Sophie Jordan

39. “I relax my thoughts and absorb everything humming around me. The branches with their gray-green leaves. The birds stirring against the dawn.”

— Sophie Jordan

40. “My face tightens, cheeks sharpening, subtly shifting, stretching. My breath changes as my nose shifts, ridges pushing out from the bridge. My limbs loosen and lengthen.”

— Sophie Jordan

41. “Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.”

— Sophie Jordan

42. “In this remarkably fast-developing world of science and technology, never forget that we are more than genetic code. We can be more than the labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs or shout in our faces. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be, and we need to help others do the same.”

— Sophie Jordan

43. “He couldn’t live without being a draki, and I couldn’t live without him.”

— Sophie Jordan

44. “Finally, the sun peeks over the mountains in a thin line of red-gold that edges the dark lake.”

— Sophie Jordan

45. “Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.”

— Sophie Jordan

46. “Life is full of regrets. They’ll cripple you if you let them.”

— Sophie Jordan

47. “I thought you were gone, Pepper. It was bad enough to lose you the first time, but to lose you like that? I couldn’t have dealt with that.”

— Sophie Jordan

48. “We’re just doing our best to live in this world, Davy.” Sean’s voice stretches into the fading dark. “We’re not perfect, but we’re not monsters, either. We’re just human.”

— Sophie Jordan

49. “I have Will. Here, he’s my way back to the sky.”

— Sophie Jordan

50. “You can’t even see it. I’m the safest thing you’ll ever find.”

— Sophie Jordan