Kami Garcia Quotes & Sayings

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time. — 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

More. I wasn't sure how i felt about more. Less, I could handled less. Less would've been good. — Kami Garcia

We'll get her outta our school, one way or another." And her little dog, too. — Kami Garcia

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury. — Kami Garcia

Maybe Macon Ravenwood wasn't the only town shut-in. I didn't think our town was big enough for two Boo Radleys. But — Kami Garcia

The girl was falling. I was falling. I had to hold on, but I couldn't. If I let go, something terrible would happen to her. But that's the thing. I couldn't let go. I couldn't lose her. It was like I was in lover with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love BEFORE first sight. Which seemed crazy because she was just a girl in a dream. — 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

This was the doorway to the heart of the Great Keep. The one place
any son of Lila Jane Evers Wate would instinctively find his way,
whether or not he was a Wayward.
The library. — Kami Garcia

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. — Kami Garcia

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

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

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen. — Kami Garcia

You need help, and that's what books are for. — Kami Garcia

Now Bobby was sitting behind the reception desk in a peach-colored orderly's uniform, and he didn't look so tough. He also didn't look all that happy to see me. Probably didn't help that his laminated nametag said BOOBY. — Kami Garcia

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

Why do you say 'no offense' when you're planning to offend me? — Kami Garcia

Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light. — Kami Garcia

I'll love you until the day after forever. — Kami Garcia

Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week. — Kami Garcia

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors. — Kami Garcia

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be. — Kami Garcia

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

I guess the sky in real life isn't actually perfect. Maybe that's what makes it so perfect. — Kami Garcia

She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power."
I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one. — Kami Garcia

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. — Kami Garcia

It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors. — Kami Garcia

I touch 100 flowers, but don't pick one. — Kami Garcia

Could you be happy if you woke up and suddenly you were no one special? — Kami Garcia

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt - it meant something. — Kami Garcia

But some things I didn't have to figure out. Some things hadn't changed, and some things never would.
Except me. I had changed, and I would give anything to change back.: — Kami Garcia

Don't think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences. — Kami Garcia

Everything about me remembers everything about you — 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

Running to stand still
-Lena — Kami Garcia

Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same. — Kami Garcia

I love you, too, L. I think I always have. — Kami Garcia

I raise my glass to the moon and drink it myself.
Life has never tasted sweeter. — Kami Garcia

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

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. — Kami Garcia

Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming. — Kami Garcia

Nothing in my life is a coincidence. — Kami Garcia

I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed. — Kami Garcia

This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it? — Kami Garcia

Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me. — Kami Garcia

I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all. — Kami Garcia

There were Casts for every conceivable purpose: Blinding the Unfaithful, Bringing Forth Water from the Sea, Binding the Runes. But nothing that said Cast to Uncurse Your Family from a Dark Binding, or Cast to Undo the Act of Trying to Bring Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Genevieve's War Hero Back to Life, or Cast to Avoid Going Dark at Your Claiming. Or the one I was really looking for - Cast to Save Your Girlfriend (Now That You Finally Have One) Before It's Too Late. — Kami Garcia

And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order. — Kami Garcia

If fear is going to stop us, we should concede failure right now. — Kami Garcia

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. — Kami Garcia

I'm sure you understand my meanin'. After all, you're one of us. Your daddy was born here and your mamma was buried here. You belong here. Not everyone does. I stared back at her. She was in her van before I could say another word. This time, Mrs. Lincoln was after more than burning a few books. — Kami Garcia

I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ... Lena — Kami Garcia

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you. — Kami Garcia

I don't know. Maybe push harder?" "You had to check your little book for that?" I was annoyed. — Kami Garcia

What the heck are those?" I said without even thinking. "Ethan Wate, you watch your mouth, or I'll have ta wash it out with soap. You know better than ta use pro-fanity," Aunt Grace said. Which, as far as she was concerned, included words like panties, naked, and bladder. — Kami Garcia

It seems to me we came to the no-going-back place the moment you made the stone door abracadabra away. — Kami Garcia

Power is neither good nor evil. — Kami Garcia

She was pretty, but that was it. And looking at her didn't make up for having to listen to what came out of her mouth. — Kami Garcia

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

I believe the term you're searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I've discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery. — 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

Then again, it's not like there's a right way to end a person's life, is there? — Kami Garcia

It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the States. We were used to that by now. 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. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. Ethan Carter Wate hadn't, and I couldn't, either. — Kami Garcia

When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding. — 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

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

A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion. — Kami Garcia

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

Blood of my heart, protection is thine.
Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine
Body of my body, marrow and mind
Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind
Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon
Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom — 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

Summerville Assisted Seniors House - the seventh circle of hell, as far as the Sisters were concerned. — Kami Garcia

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

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows. — Kami Garcia

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you. — Kami Garcia

There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say. — Kami Garcia

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan. — Kami Garcia

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie. — Kami Garcia

The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. — 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

They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier."
"A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her wrist.
Link pushed away his plate, still covered with food. "So let me get this straight. We're gonna go down into the
Tunnels and find this moon outta time with Liv's fancy watch?"
"Selenometer." Liv didn't look up from copying numbers from the dials into her red notebook. — Kami Garcia

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss — Kami Garcia

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

Together we told Lena, in the one stolen moment we had, not what to do but that she could do it.
Claim yourself, I said.
Claim yourself, my mother said.
I am myself, Lena said. I am. — 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

You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick. — Kami Garcia

Butterflies in your stomach. More like killer bees. — Kami Garcia

Don't spit down my back and tell me it's raining. — 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

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

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

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched. — Kami Garcia

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.' — Kami Garcia

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book. — Kami Garcia

We love what we love and who
we love who we love and why
we love why we love and find
a falling shoelace knotted and strung
between the fingers of strangers — Kami Garcia

Hey, Ethan."
"Yeah?"
"Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?"
"The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice."
He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up. — Kami Garcia

There's difficult, and then there's difficult. — Kami Garcia

Bent
like the branches of a tree
broken
like the pieces of my heart
cracked
like the seventeenth moon
shattered
like the glass in the window
the day we met — Kami Garcia

My mom had told me the stories about the first few years she'd lived here. The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the marketing on Sunday, dropped by any church she liked or none at all, was a feminist (which Mrs. Asher sometimes confused with communist), a Democrat (which Mrs. Lincoln pointed out practically had "demon" in the word itself), and worst of all, a vegetarian (which ruled out any dinner invitations from Mrs. Snow). Beyond that, beyond not being a member of the right church or the DAR or the National Rifle Association, was the fact that my mom was an outsider. — Kami Garcia

There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
I never even saw it coming. — Kami Garcia

Nothing was deceptive. Nothing was much harder to describe or fix or stop. — Kami Garcia