Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it’s cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?”

— Kami Garcia

103. “Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we’re talking about the Lowcountry kind.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.”

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106. “Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.”

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107. “I didn’t want it to look like I was running away. I don’t want him to think he broke me.” “I hear you. But leaving doesn’t always mean you’re running away. Sometimes you have to regroup before you go back and fight another battle.” “There won’t be another battle. I already lost the war.” And my best friend. “Don’t be so sure. You’re a fighter like your mom. Don’t let a pathetic excuse for a boy change that.”

— Kami Garcia

108. “It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn’t know her. Kind of like love before first sight.”

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109. “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.”

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110. “Sometimes moving forward changes what’s behind you.”

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111. “In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “There was a special place in Hell for guys like Lennox. It was called life.”

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114. “The right thing and the easy thing are never the same. No one knew that better than Macon.”

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115. “When it came to relationships, the truth never set anyone free. The truth only set things on fire.”

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116. “Lena’s hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.”

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117. “You must be really proud of yourself for pulling that one off.” His eyes didn’t waver from her face. “I’m almost never proud. They say it goes before a fall, and I’m not planning on falling.”

— Kami Garcia

118. “So either your a vampire or a perv. Which is it?”

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119. “You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.”

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120. “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?”

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121. “She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”

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122. “Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.”

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123. “I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.”

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124. “A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.”

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125. “Butterflies in your stomach. More like killer bees.”

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126. “The one broken window that permanently wouldn’t roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead.”

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127. “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.”

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128. “It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don’t want to go.”

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129. “No, she certainly is not. She would burst into flames if she set one foot on a good Christian campus, and don’t you forget it.” “Jesus loves everyone, Mom.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.”

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132. “Let’s get something straight: I’m supposed to be the bad guy. I will always disappoint you. Your parents will hate me. You should not root for me. I am not your role model.”

— Kami Garcia

133. “I don’t want to fix you, Angel. I just want you.”

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134. “Jewelry, I’m telling you. It’s a thing. And love. And maybe danger.”

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135. “Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.”

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136. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

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137. “I loved you, Ethan. But I have to go.”

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138. “The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, “This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.”

— Kami Garcia

139. “Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.”

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140. “There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.”

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141. “When I kissed you, I tasted fire. I don’t know what it means. I thought you should know.”

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142. “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.”

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143. “You’re just holding onto a different edge of the same jagged hole.”

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144. “The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It’s hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.”

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145. “I’m not a church kind of person, not when it comes to praying. To be honest, for me it never gets much past hoping. But I know this, and I want to say it. And I really hope someone will listen. 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. Maybe there isn’t a meaning to life. Maybe there’s only a meaning to living.”

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

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147. “This wasn’t how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace and made up and made out. They didn’t do things like set ground rules. They didn’t do feelings talk. They didn’t get it out in the open.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “I’d ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.”

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

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