Meredith Blevins > Quotes

“to that place where no one could hear me but the sand when I walked upon it, where I could write and work, where I could read and sleep, where no one needed me except the shoreline to remark upon its incredible beauty.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“You came pretty late to my party— you’d better be able to dance until dawn”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“I stood beneath the moon a little longer, soft and safe. In that reflected light, the sun’s harsh spirit dissolves to silver silk. The moon beds us, she fills our dreaming nights with immense possibility. The moon, giant mother, keeper of secrets, the one who says secrets aren’t really necessary, that every truth is hers and she’s big enough to hold them all. Somewhere”
― Meredith Blevins, The Vanished Priestess

“Autumn vineyards rolled up the hills in deep red lines behind my house.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“This is the thing about being a parent,” she said. “Do a good job, and your kids feel like they can take on the entire world, and sometimes that involves a world that’s not anywhere near you. Do a lousy job, and they cling to your skirt and suck their thumbs—which is not so attractive in an adult person—but you do get to see them. Like all the time. You’ve got to let go, Annie.” “I’ve”
― Meredith Blevins, The Vanished Priestess

“Eight hundred forty-three television stations, and there didn’t appear to be much more worth watching than when we lived in the black-and-white wasteland of channels two through thirteen.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“Please be quiet,” Ike said. “Sounds that surround our body at the time of death are our soul’s living blanket. The sound wraps us, carrying us to a city by cool waters, the place we reside after death. Chants remind the newly dead that they are no longer alive. As my voice grows dimmer, Hao’s soul will understand it is moving away from the earth. It’s necessary for peaceful transition—he’ll know his death isn’t a dream.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Red Hot Empress

“Phoo,” Zoltan said to me. “Legal system. Police. All playground stuff humans invented to amuse themselves. It’s got nothing to do with real power.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“what you love, doesn’t matter what it is, or who it is—that’s your heart and spirit, that’s you. Don’t let anybody talk you out of it, don’t let anybody get in its way. Otherwise you live with a hole in your heart.” Then”
― Meredith Blevins, The Promised One

“You got kids who act loony and take drugs left and right. They pretend they hate their parents who gave them everything in the world. These kids grow up, and their kids stick earrings in private places and get tattoos all over their bodies and don’t know whether to act like boys or girls. They think they love everybody. The truth is they love nobody, including themselves.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“Back one hundred generations ago there was no people but Gypsies. Everything walked and talked. Flowers visited each other, so did rocks. As time passed they all lost their legs. Trouble didn’t. It still walks anywhere it wants. So do Gypsies. —Madame”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?” “Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor’s fence.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor’s fence.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“Labels make death and disease easier to handle. They apply makeup to tragedy’s face.”
― Meredith Blevins, The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Vol 1-3

“It’s not until a woman gets loose and comfortable inside her own skin that she’s comfortable wrapping it around a man.” Mina”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard

“Back one hundred generations ago there was no people but Gypsies.  Everything walked and talked.  Flowers visited each other, so did rocks.  As time passed they all lost their legs.  Trouble didn’t.   It still walks anywhere it wants.  So do Gypsies. ~   Madame Mina Szabo, as learned from her grandmother     Jerry”
― Meredith Blevins, The Hummingbird Wizard