Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “No, I’m too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don’t think I’m strong enough.”

— Kami Garcia

52. “You can’t choose the person who really sees you – the person who knows what you’re feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can’t imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose.”

— Kami Garcia

53. “Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.”

— Kami Garcia

54. “I’m just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can’t give you the answers.”

— Kami Garcia

55. “There were only two kinds of people in our town. – The stupid and the stuck- – The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”

— Kami Garcia

56. “Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.”

— Kami Garcia

57. “Your future together? To get there, it means refusing all the other crap the universe hands you. It means telling the Wheel of Fate to suck it and roll over someone else. It means not settling for any of the other endings you see coming. It means holding out.”

— Kami Garcia

58. “Strength doesn’t come from your memories. It comes from your heart. And the heart never forgets.”

— Kami Garcia

59. “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

60. “Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.”

— Kami Garcia

61. “I’ll love you until the day after forever.”

— Kami Garcia

62. “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

63. “The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.”

— Kami Garcia

64. “Sometimes I wish I could act like everyone else, but I can’t change who I am. I’ve tried. But I never wear the right clothes or say the right thing, and something always goes wrong.”

— Kami Garcia

65. “Nothing in my life is a coincidence.”

— Kami Garcia

66. “Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don’t you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it’s ready to play again.”

— Kami Garcia

67. “The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I’m a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.”

— Kami Garcia

68. “Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren’t those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them.”

— Kami Garcia

69. “It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.”

— Kami Garcia

70. “I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.”

— Kami Garcia

71. “It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.”

— Kami Garcia

72. “You would be surprised what we are capable of when the situation warrants it.”

— Kami Garcia

73. “Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

75. “Because saving the people you love isn’t stupid. It isn’t even a choice.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

77. “I care. They bother me. And that’s why I’m stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I’m stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

78. “You watch yourself. One day you’re going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we’ll all be in a fix.”

— Kami Garcia

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “Do you believe in love after last sight?”

— Kami Garcia

83. “Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

85. “The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses – what’s come before and what will come after, you and me –.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

87. “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

88. “But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille’s head.”

— Kami Garcia

89. “I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.”

— Kami Garcia

90. “She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn’t. Even when she wasn’t on her way to me.”

— Kami Garcia

91. “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

92. “It’s hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”

— Kami Garcia

93. “Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn’t control your powers. Beginner’s luck.”

— Kami Garcia

94. “A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.”

— Kami Garcia

95. “Evil doesn’t always have one face, Ethan.”

— Kami Garcia

96. “In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”

— Kami Garcia

97. “You’re incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”

— Kami Garcia

98. “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.”

— Kami Garcia

99. “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

100. “The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn’t, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.”

— Kami Garcia