Kami Garcia Quotes

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.
Kami Garcia
Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either.
Kami Garcia
I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from.
Kami Garcia
You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.
Kami Garcia
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.
Kami Garcia
Hey Rid?"She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could..."Yeah, Shrinky Dink?""You're not all bad."She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.
Kami Garcia
Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
Kami Garcia
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Kami Garcia
Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that?
Kami Garcia
Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.
Kami Garcia
In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.
Kami Garcia
She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.
Kami Garcia
These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
Kami Garcia
She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren't holding hands, it felt like we were.Because what we had, we knew.
Kami Garcia
Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down.
Kami Garcia
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I’ve been learning how to die.
Kami Garcia
Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
Kami Garcia
Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels.
Kami Garcia
He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
Kami Garcia
Lena was going down the list of John's attributes in her mind, a list I was hoping wasn't too long. "He could see and hear and smell things I couldn't."Link inhaled deeply, then coughed. "Dude, you really need a shower.
Kami Garcia
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
Kami Garcia
What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you serious?
Kami Garcia
Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?
Kami Garcia
We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to.
Kami Garcia
But when you’re in love, you’re not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me —what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?
Kami Garcia
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.
Kami Garcia
I pushed her shiny blond hair away from her face and leaned down, our faces only inches apart. She inhaled softly, our lips so close I could feel her breath and the scent of her skin, like honeysuckle in springtime. She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.I pulled my fingers through her hair and held it at the back of her neck. Her skin was soft and warm, like a Mortal girl's. There was no electric current, no shocks. We could kiss for as long as we wanted. If we had a fight, there wouldn't be a flood or a hurricane, or even a storm. I wouldn't find her on the ceiling of her bedroom. No windows would shatter. No exams would catch fire.Liv held up her face to be kissed.She wanted me.
Kami Garcia
The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
Kami Garcia
Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.
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It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there.
Kami Garcia
Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
Kami Garcia
There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
Kami Garcia
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.
Kami Garcia
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
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every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears
Kami Garcia
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
Kami Garcia
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.
Kami Garcia
Seventeen moons, seventeen years,Eyes where Dark or Light appears,Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.
Kami Garcia
The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i didn't find a way to release it, it would destroy me.
Kami Garcia
Laws of physicslaws of loveof time and spaceand the (in)between place(in)between you and meand where we arelost and lookinglooking and lost
Kami Garcia
She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form.
Kami Garcia
Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.
Kami Garcia
If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor was bathed in a creeping shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped up into the walls.......
Kami Garcia
Theres something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're close, like you could reach out and touch them. But you cant because sometimes things look alot closer than they seem
Kami Garcia
Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope.
Kami Garcia
When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl
Kami Garcia
One thing I’d realized in the last year was that there were some things no one could give you permission to do. All the same, it didn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t do them— particularly when it came to the big things, like saving the world, or journeying to a supernatural seam between realities, or bringing your boyfriend back from the dead.
Kami Garcia
I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss
Kami Garcia
Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian."Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.
Kami Garcia
There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
Kami Garcia
Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.
Kami Garcia
Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.
Kami Garcia
The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
Kami Garcia
My body was jerking and shaking, and I remembered John when he was in the Tunnels with Lena. The weird jerking and twitching he seemed unable to control.Was this what it felt like to be in the grip of Abraham Ravenwood?
Kami Garcia
I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me.
Kami Garcia
Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too.
Kami Garcia
Maybe magic wasn’t the magic thing, when you grew up with it
Kami Garcia
Love is a spell created by mortals
Kami Garcia
My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.
Kami Garcia
In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
Kami Garcia