Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Kami Garcia

152. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

154. “So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn’t know, and I didn’t have any way to find out. Guys don’t talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.”

— Kami Garcia

155. “I turn around and start walking, careful to keep my head down so no one sees the moment when the huge smile I was fighting finally breaks free. It takes every ounce of self-control not to look back and see if he’s watching.”

— Kami Garcia

156. “You don’t have to share the same parents to be sisters... Just the same heart.”

— Kami Garcia

157. “In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn’t brought it up, and they hadn’t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

— Kami Garcia

158. “Keep your eyes open, Fox Mulder,” the Major called after him. Before Gimble shut the door, Mulder heard the Major say one last thing. “The truth is out there.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

160. “I don’t know what I’m trying to say. I don’t know what any of this is really about. Why we bother. Why we’re here. Why we love. I had a family, and they were everything to me, and I didn’t even know it when I had them. I had a girl, and she was everything to me, and I knew it every second I had her. I lost them all. Everything a guy could ever want. I found my way home again, but don’t be fooled. Nothing’s the same as before. I’m not sure I’d want it to be.”

— Kami Garcia

161. “And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.”

— Kami Garcia

162. “You aren’t actually defending the Devil, are you?” Macon held up his hand. “Wait. What am I saying? He’s probably your mentor.”

— Kami Garcia

163. “You couldn’t take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”

— Kami Garcia

164. “Power is neither good nor evil.”

— Kami Garcia

165. “It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.”

— Kami Garcia

166. “Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

168. “My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.”

— Kami Garcia

169. “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

170. “I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.”

— Kami Garcia

171. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

175. “Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person’s whole life?”

— Kami Garcia

176. “My dad used to say the evil we enact on each other is worse than anything spirits and demons can do to us.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

178. “I want a happily even after. The kind of happiness you have to earn. The kind you find after a broken heart or an injured knee. After a mistake that feels impossible to fix. It’s the even after part that matters. I already have the happy part.”

— Kami Garcia

179. “A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.”

— Kami Garcia

180. “Why do you say ‘no offense’ when you’re planning to offend me?”

— Kami Garcia

181. “Gatlin was full of God-fearing Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostals, but they couldn’t resist the lure of the cards, the possibility of changing the course of their own destiny.”

— Kami Garcia

182. “Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?”

— Kami Garcia

183. “I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don’t have me arrested.”

— Kami Garcia

184. “Because we were dead, we could see everything. And because we were dead, it didn’t matter what we could see. So the whole seeing-things-from-the-grave concept? Majorly overrated. All you ended up seeing was more than you wanted to in the first place.”

— Kami Garcia

185. “If I had anyone to talk to about it, I knew they would say to give her time. I also knew that was just something people said when there was nothing left to say and nothing you could do.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

187. “You know vegetablism is one step closer ta a world without panties an’ preachers. That there is a documentated fact.”

— Kami Garcia

188. “The poems are all wrong. It’s a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.”

— Kami Garcia

189. “I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.”

— Kami Garcia

190. “It’s the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want.”

— Kami Garcia

191. “And nobody’s any different from anyone else, not when you come right down to it.”

— Kami Garcia

192. “In history, she wasn’t there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.”

— Kami Garcia

193. “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I’ve been learning how to die.”

— Kami Garcia

194. “Just for a minute,” she said. He’s not half bad, she thought, as far as princes go. “Just to watch the sunset,” he agreed. He’s not half bad, she thought, as far as enemies go. “Just to see the stars,” she conceded. This isn’t half bad, she thought, as far as wars go. “Just one day,” he said. “You promised.” And just to take another look at one small photograph hanging on the wall, she thought. Lennox Gates, what is your Siren story?”

— Kami Garcia

195. “Things changed. Then they changed again. Life was like that, and even death, I guess.”

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196. “And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!”

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197. “Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.”

— Kami Garcia

198. “I pulled Lena’s necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.”

— Kami Garcia

199. “The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.”

— Kami Garcia

200. “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.”

— Kami Garcia