Kami Garcia Quotes

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

The missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.

Falling not flying
one lost muddy shoe
like the lost worlds
between me and you

Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

Other people had flying dreams. I had falling nightmares.

The only way to get through this whole labyrinth thing, like most other crappy things, was to just get through it.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Running to stand still
-Lena

Power is neither good nor evil.

Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

I am bent and brooken but i hope into a better shape

Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.

I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him.

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

What is that, Shakespeare?"
"Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman.

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

Lena: Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have a power.
Ethan: Maybe you just have to fall for one.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

Everythin' means somethin'.

Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.

A troubled Necromancer. An Illusionist with a secret. An Incubus marked for death. A Darkborn in hiding. A Siren with a past.

The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.

Stupid to the power of stupid.

It's not every day a guy, or even a Sheer, gets bitten by his own hand. At least I hoped it wasn't.

Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn't a writer. He wasn't even a vampire. He was a madman.

Every once in a while the universe give us what we ask for, so just make sure you're asking for the right things.

She thought her eyes were playing

The suddenness of it all. And the permanence. The lonely reality of the truth.

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.

As in, you go ahead and pull on that thread and watch the whole world unravel like a sweater, Ethan Wate.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Don't be stupid. You sound like his girlfriend. (Wesley Jefferson Lincoln)

Everyone called it Burger Math because all you learned was how to make change.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

Who can judge the judge?

As Amma used to say, the good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth.

Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

The price must be paid to forge the New Order.

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to.

Hunger is such an incredible inconvenience.

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you."
"What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

It was all sick.

Mercy! You stop all that talk!" "Stop what? Speakin' the truth?" "Don't you drag the truth inta this house!" Aunt Prue was flustered.

You have to lace your fingers just right to catch your dreams. And you don't want to lose them because they're not easy to find again.

Courage is a kind of salvation,

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

The twisting roads run straight between us.

moments bleed together, no span to time

Good for you, Ethan. That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

Full circle. The beginning and the end.

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

A tall girl towered over us, arms crossed tightly over her chest.

Screw all that Incubus crap. That's how you do it Mortal-style.

Everything about me remembers everything about you

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

Maybe all crows were just creepy.

Maybe people could change - even the ones who made the wrong choices, if they tried hard enough to make them right.

The guys were going down one road, and I was going down another.

It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

When I kissed you, I tasted fire. I don't know what it means. I thought you should know.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.

We are all mixed up in this together, under one warm piecrust.

I don't want to fix you, Angel. I just want you.

Aunt Caroline opened the door, wiping her hands on her G.R.I.T.S. apron. Girls Raised in the South.

Life is quite boring when your powers are picking out your clothes and your breakfast cereal.

winning is easier when you've got nothing to lose.

One day you're gonna pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through.

Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.

Words same as always
same as nothing
when nothing is the same

Girls were like aliens, and as far as he was concerned, Ridley was their queen.

And nobody's any different from anyone else, not when you come right down to it.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

Except that it felt like he knew me, Ridley thought. Like we were the same, and something was pulling us together.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Jackson High Biology Department. Stay in school, kids- Link

I was glad to get out of my house, for any reason, even if the reason involved grave robbing.

Death is the beginning of Immortality. - MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

You're just holding onto a different edge of the same jagged hole

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

Somewtimes I wrote random stuff in the middle of my essays, just to see if my teachers would say anything. No one ever did.

In the one who is bound
freedom will be found.
Live again, Darkness,
come out of the light.

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'.
I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

Not bein' right isn't always somebody's fault. Sometimes it's just a fact, like the cards you pull.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. No, she's all right.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me.

Link flexed his muscles. To be fair, he did nearly split his t-shirt in half.