Katie McGarry Quotes & Sayings

I watched you battle against the worst memory of your life and I watched you win. Make no mistake, Echo. I battled right beside you. — Katie McGarry

I can't think straight when you 're this close. — Katie McGarry

"I'm destined to die a virgin." My own admission shocked me. Had those words left my mouth? I rubbed the smooth material of Noah's jacket. Maybe I should have gone off with him. Not to get high, but to ... well ... not die a virgin.
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"HOLY CROW, ECHO. You hibernate for a year and a half and wake up with a bang." Lila finished changing out of her church clothes and into a tight pink sweater and blue jeans. "Luke tells you he still loves you - and by the way, told you so. And Noah stinking Hutchins tries to kiss you. And you complained you were going to die a virgin." — Katie McGarry

Razor," Pigpen calls as I straddle my bike.
When I meet his eyes, he continues, "Are you tight? — Katie McGarry

She stalked toward me, hips swaying side to side, eyes hardened with anger. Echo pushed her body agaist mine, parts of her fitting perfectly into parts of me. I swore under my breath, fighting for control over my body. — Katie McGarry

Luke continued to stare, as if he physically couldn't take his eyes off of me. My dazed mind began to function. He wasn't staring at my face, but my arms. The glove on my right arm no longer protected my scars from the outside world. It hung limply around my fingertips. Before my eyes, though, it suddenly slipped back up my arm. Noah mumbled several words directed at Luke as he placed an arm over the glove he straightened. — Katie McGarry

This sort of feels like green."
"This is me being blue. Don't worry - you're still yellow — Katie McGarry

Baby, no one would ever make the mistake of using the word ugly with you. Especially with me around." He pushed the curls off my face, his fingers leaving a burning trail. "Everything about you is beautiful and sexy as hell. — Katie McGarry

I wish I never had sex with Luke. I wish I could take back so many things, but I can't. I wish I could be someone worthy for you. — Katie McGarry

Make love to me, Echo. I've never made love."No way. Noah's experienced reputation walked down the hallway before he did. "But ... "
Noah cut me off with a kiss. "Yes, but never love. Just girls who didn't mean anything" You ... " His tongue teased my bottom lip, thawing my body. "Are everything. — Katie McGarry

The world is made of multiple pieces. All of them moving alongside each other, sometimes never touching. Coexisting, yet not. How many of us live our entire lives inside a single bubble?
Maneuvering in what we believe is a forward direction when it's only in a circle among the same type of people. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag. — Katie McGarry

Don't you dare ever hope for more. There's no such thing as living happily ever after or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The world is how it is and there always has to be bottom-feeders. People like you and me, we're it, and the world might want us to believe we can have more, but the moment we try to break out of the water they'll shove us down into the mud. It's better to know the truth. It hurts less if you accept society's crappy rules. — Katie McGarry

Ryan has this blank, way too innocent expression. "Don't worry, Mr. Risk. I'd love to help Elisabeth."
He turns to me and smiles. This smile isn't genuine or heartwarming, but cocky as hell.
Bring it, jock boy. Your best won't be good enough. — Katie McGarry

Echo, you look..." He let his eyes wander down my body and then slowly back up. A wicked grin spread across his face. "Appetizing."
"Like a chicken wing appetizing or succulent hamburger appetizing? — Katie McGarry

I flip off Pigpen. He suggests something anatomically impossible, and as the familiar ribbing begins[--} — Katie McGarry

With another curse, I'm out of the truck, slamming the door to piss Pigpen off. He follows as I go up the stairs, then brushes past me when I pause. He grins at me over his shoulder before opening the screen door. — Katie McGarry

I close my eyes at his intimate touch. It's a slow movement, not one meant to seduce. It's one to show how much he loves me, and I flatten my lips, fighting the urge to cry. Noah nudges me toward him and if it wasn't for his hold, I'd drop like a house of cards.
I fall into him, and Noah wraps me in his arms. "It's okay, baby. We're okay."
I cling tighter to him, because it doesn't feel okay. For the past two months, life was good and easy and everything I dreamed it could be. Despite my efforts, the muscles at the corner of my mouth tremble. I wanted to be done with tears and with whispered comments thrown in my direction like knives and with this overwhelming sense that I'm less and that I'll never belong. — Katie McGarry

I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left. — Katie McGarry

He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill. — Katie McGarry

A cold wind swept across the patio, causing me to shiver. Noah shrugged off his black leather jacket and tossed it around my shoulders. "How are you going to tutor me if you get fucking pneumonia?" I cocked an eyebrow. What an odd combination of romantic gesture and horribly crude wording. — Katie McGarry

Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat. — Katie McGarry

I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it. — Katie McGarry

Isaiah places his hands on the top of my car and leans over so that his head is level with mine. The strong scent of dark spices tickles my nose and I inhale deeply. A brief calm washes through me and somehow I know Isaiah will get me out of this. — Katie McGarry

In this case, two wrongs made a major right. — Katie McGarry

Noah drew me closer to him. "It's okay. I've got you. — Katie McGarry

I'm sorry. Really, Echo, I am. I didn't make the Aires connection until after the movie, I swear."
"It's fine." Really - we're even. You took me to a crappy movie. I left and almost kissed a really hot guy. A guy who made my toes curl and shared his food. A guy I should really stop obsessing over because God knows he's not thinking about me. — Katie McGarry

After a half hour, Antonio lured her away by throwing around words like technique and shading. I planned on joining her in the kitchen when the game ended, but decided against it when she grabbed a pencil and spoke rapidly as she sketched. I'd wanted her to be comfortable and I'd wanted to hang with my friends. Somehow, I got both my wishes. — Katie McGarry

Isaiah and I were meant to be friends and now I'm losing my only friend. — Katie McGarry

She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It's indifference that should scare you. — Katie McGarry

Is this all we are? Continual actions and reactions? No control over our future? [ ... ] If that's true, then life is one pathetic and sick game. — Katie McGarry

Noah's hands ease down my arms, then he folds me into him. His front heating my back. He dips his head to my ear and whispers. "Lower your hands."
"Nuh-uh." My mind chants, can't make me, followed by, la, la, la.
"Baby, I've got no problem turning you around, propping you up on the sink and kissing you until you look at me. — Katie McGarry

Aires and Echo Emerson. Their mother must have hated them to give them names like that. — Katie McGarry

"She cries." Ashley's high-pitched voice cut through the silence as if she were dispensing juicy country-club gossip. "All the time. She really misses Aires."
Both my father and I turned our heads to look at the blond bimbo. I willed her to continue while my father, I'm sure, willed her to shut up. God listened to me for once. Ashley went on, "We all miss him. It's so sad that the baby will never know him."
And once again, welcome to the Ashley show, sponsored by Ashley and my father's money. — Katie McGarry

The question isn't what I would have done. The question is what do you want to do? — Katie McGarry

I'm like an American Girl doll on crack. — Katie McGarry

Her face reddened. "Sorry, i, um, assumed that, you know, that since you said i was yours, that we would kind of, i guess ... "
Damn, she was cute when she stammered. — Katie McGarry

I love you." So much that sometimes it hurts.
Noah tilts his head down, and his nose skims against mine. "You're my whole world, Echo. — Katie McGarry

All of us prayed for normal. But so far, normal only meant more misery. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen grins like a crazy man. — Katie McGarry

Echo." Too late. Brainless swept into the foyer. — Katie McGarry

No apologies. I could kiss you right now. Judging by the look in his chocolate-brown eyes, he meant it. — Katie McGarry

Not sure how I felt about Antonio and Echo, I linked my fingers with hers. Antonio cocked a surprised eyebrow. Damn straight, bro. I just marked my territory. — Katie McGarry

Champagne hangovers suck. — Katie McGarry

Sometimes life happens. — Katie McGarry

He has a wide gait and I struggle to appear casual as I attempt to match his stride. His shirt's back on, which is a sin. He could definitely give Echo's guy a run for his money in the abs department. — Katie McGarry

Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there's a chance I can make her happy ... If I can save what's between us ... I'll do it, so fucking tell me! — Katie McGarry

I hear laughter and suck in a breath when I realize it's mine ... and his. Together. It sounds nice. Kind of like music. — Katie McGarry

The devil dances with those who walk alone on an edge. — Katie McGarry

But by the way Pigpen's eyes are flickering between that piece and me, I might have to stab him in the hand with a fork to get it.
"It's mine." He whispers. "Go for it and you're going down."
Despite my best intentions, I smile and his eyes shine with the win. — Katie McGarry

Go there and I swear to God you'll have to check 'other' when asked if you're male or female. — Katie McGarry

You asked me earlier what it was like to come home," I say.
Haley nods. I lace our fingers together and raise them into the air. "I couldn't answer you because I didn't know, but now I do. This-" I rock out hands "-I finally found home. — Katie McGarry

She threw her arms around my neck and pressed her head into my shoulder.
Everything within me stilled. I wrapped my arms around her warmth and softness, closing my eyes to savor the peace Echo's presence brought to me. Life would almost be enjoyable if i could feel this way all the time. I nuzzled the top of her hair with my chin, sending Isaiah a glance of gratidute.
Using my arms as chains, i kept Echo locked against me when she pulled her head off my shoulder. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen earned his name as a joke because the girls fall over themselves to gain his attention. Blonde hair, blue eyes...a late twentysomething version of what I hope to be. — Katie McGarry

The PA system in the classroom beeped. Echo pulled her hand away from mine, ending perhaps the most erotic moment of my life. I shifted in my seat, trying to find my damn mind. — Katie McGarry

Ms. Whitlock is lost in her own world as she continues babbling about poem interpretations and people who died too long ago. — Katie McGarry

The picnic shakes as Pigpen climbs it from behind, then plants himself next to me. "We should change your road name to F-U-F. Fucked-Up and Forlorn. — Katie McGarry

Her perfectly shaped eyebrows furrowed as she ran through what i said. I loved how her lips twiched in humor and a blush touched her cheeks. — Katie McGarry

I had a long list of things I preferred to do over flipping burgers. Flipping burgers and teaching people to flip burgers: my fucking dream come true. — Katie McGarry

He had been feathering kisses into my hair, causing goose bumps on the back of my neck. — Katie McGarry

God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze. — Katie McGarry

I'M BUYING YOU A COAT."
And I meant it. I opened the car door and slung my leather jacket around her shoulders.
"It's February. Why don't you ever have a damn jacket on?" Echo slid her arms through my coat, closing her eyes as she inhaled. When she finaly opened them, she fluttered her eyelashes, giving me a look of pure seduction. "Maybe I like wearing yours instead."
I swalowed. I had plans, and those plans did not involve kissing her against my car. Dammit, she was going to kill me.
"Congratulations, it's yours. — Katie McGarry

"Hi, Isaiah. How are you doing, Beth?" Echo asked.
Beth took a long draw off her cigarette, glaring at Echo. Standing her ground, Echo stared back, pretending Beth's fury didn't matter to her. Pride flooded my body. — Katie McGarry

I barely heard her muffled comment of "Yay," but the sarcastic jazz hands were hard to miss. — Katie McGarry

Though she wouldn't admit it, I think she also wanted another few minutes to rock Alexander. — Katie McGarry

Noah?
A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom. — Katie McGarry

I clutched the armrest when she gunned the engine on the freeway and cut off a minivan. That big red shiny thing inches from you was another vehicle. — Katie McGarry

Soft fingers grip my wrist and forearm. My eyes shoot to hers, but she's too busy fussing over the noncut to notice how her caress is turning me inside out. In a good way. In a strange way. In a way I haven't felt since ... Beth. — Katie McGarry

I love her. More than I thought I was capable of, and I would sacrifice my life for her happiness. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen and Dust lent a hand. — Katie McGarry

I love you," I whisper. "I can't remember a time when I haven't loved you. — Katie McGarry

My head whips towards the sound of Breanna's sweet voice. At the corner, she waves to our English teacher [Ms Whitlock] then starts to our classroom. — Katie McGarry

Here, he would know what to do. I mean, come freaking on - was there even a question in there? If so, simple English required a question mark. Was the triangle-looking — Katie McGarry

We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind. — Katie McGarry

Those aren't girls. They're vultures. — Katie McGarry

I'll go wherever you want, baby. — Katie McGarry

Once upon a time, my world revolved around you. — Katie McGarry

There are lies in life we accept. Whether it's for the sake of ignorance, bliss, or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen says your brothers think we're taking too long. — Katie McGarry

This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It's not perfect and it's messy as hell. And it's exactly what I need. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen jumps off as well but snatches my arm, gripping like he means to cause pain. — Katie McGarry

Echo's eyes plead with me as she waits for an answer.
Stay with me.
Not here.
Not with him.
With me.
That's my answer. — Katie McGarry

The suck part about falling is that eventual crash landing. — Katie McGarry

And then I wonder what it would be like if he really was falling for me, because Lincoln in real life is a million times more intense than Lincoln in letters ... and I'm seriously falling for him. — Katie McGarry

You okay, brother?" Pigpen asks. — Katie McGarry

The blonde checks out the legs of the car like Pigpen checks out the legs of my English teacher--like a dog in heat. — Katie McGarry

Because they're wet, Noah's jeans are a bit stubborn sliding down, but he's successful, and in the mirror I'm drawn to his naked body. I love the raw power of his shoulder blades and the curve of his back that trails lower to his ... my mouth dries out ... oh, crap ... his butt is ... how do I describe something so exquisite?
Everything about Noah is sexy, and as he bends to pull the jeans off his foot
"If you get in the shower with me, Echo, you'd get a better look and you'd warm up." — Katie McGarry

I won't let you go." I blink. As if he could stop me. "You won't let me go." "No, I won't let you go. You're mine and I don't lose. — Katie McGarry

Pigpen slides into the man's space and goes nose to nose. To the cop's credit, he doesn't flinch. — Katie McGarry

And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It's a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy who an hour ago carried himself like a jungle predator, now has the content aura of a lazy cat bathing in the sun. — Katie McGarry

I'm wrong. My house isn't a volcano-I am, and the past two years have created a dormant giant who no longer will tolerate being ignored. I'm tired of this. Tired of how everyone's become so obsessed with themselves, obsessed with the moment, that we've ceased caring what's going to happen next. — Katie McGarry

Just a shower. If you want me to stay on the opposite side, I will. I won't kiss. I won't touch."
Echo flashes that siren smile. "What if I want to kiss you?"
"You're trying to kill me, aren't you? — Katie McGarry

Every time i think i 've got you figured out, Noah, you surprise me. — Katie McGarry

Look, man, I get it. We don't do attachments. We depend on something or someone and the system rips it away from us. But Echo's not the system, man. She's a girl who looked like shit yesterday and chased you down when we all decided you should play the dick instead of being her friend. — Katie McGarry

The universe had a strange sense of humor. — Katie McGarry

I like you. I. Like. You. I'll admit you're annoying. Sometimes you agitate me to the brink of insanity, but you can throw it back at me like no one else. When you laugh, I want to laugh. When you smile, I want to smile. Hell, I want to be the one to make you smile. — Katie McGarry

My damned little siren laughed at me. "I see your language has improved."
Poof - like magic, the anger disappeared. — Katie McGarry

She pushed off her toes toward me, guiding my head down, and gently kissed my lips. No. This wouldn't be goudbye. I'd fill her up and make her realize she'd always be empty without me. — Katie McGarry

We all started off this way - small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah and even Beth. At some point, someone held us and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up. — Katie McGarry

I'm scared if I stay, I'll keep looking back and never look forward. — Katie McGarry