Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

203. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

205. “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

206. “Could you be happy if you woke up and suddenly you were no one special?”

— Kami Garcia

207. “The days without you bleed together until time is nothing more than another obstacle we must overcome.”

— Kami Garcia

208. “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

210. “I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from.”

— Kami Garcia

211. “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

212. “You can’t jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.”

— Kami Garcia

213. “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

214. “The stuffs you’re good at and the stuffs you’re bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don’t. And the people who love you and the people who don’t. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

216. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

218. “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

219. “Sorry to disappoint you. He’s not evil. He’s just a jerk. Sometimes it’s a fine line.” “Hey.”

— Kami Garcia

220. “Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.”

— Kami Garcia

221. “Those were the ‘ifs’ that kept me from making a fool of myself.”

— Kami Garcia

222. “You couldn’t unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”

— Kami Garcia

223. “The soul dies at the hand of the one who carries it.”

— Kami Garcia

224. “Stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

225. “It seems to me we came to the no-going-back place the moment you made the stone door abracadabra away.”

— Kami Garcia

226. “I love you, too, L. I think I always have.”

— Kami Garcia

227. “I couldn’t sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.”

— Kami Garcia

228. “Maybe all crows were just creepy.”

— Kami Garcia

229. “Mercy! You stop all that talk!” “Stop what? Speakin’ the truth?” “Don’t you drag the truth inta this house!” Aunt Prue was flustered.”

— Kami Garcia

230. “They shouldn’t call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.”

— Kami Garcia

231. “You’re not the only one falling.”

— Kami Garcia

232. “At least no one’s trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes.”

— Kami Garcia

233. “Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.”

— Kami Garcia

234. “Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me.”

— Kami Garcia

235. “I wanted to stay this way forever. Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.”

— Kami Garcia

236. “I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.”

— Kami Garcia

237. “I rubbed the scar on my skin. It felt like the truth.”

— Kami Garcia

238. “Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.”

— Kami Garcia

239. “My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.”

— Kami Garcia

240. “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

241. “Whenever I cared about someone, I imagined them leaving – the words they’d say, the way it would feel when they left. I thought if I prepared myself, it would be easier when it finally happened.”

— Kami Garcia

242. “Anyway, I don’t know why I write the things I do. They sort of come into my head.”

— Kami Garcia

243. “I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.”

— Kami Garcia

244. “I hadn’t fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.”

— Kami Garcia

245. “Guys don’t talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.”

— Kami Garcia

246. “There was some banging around in the hall, and Aunt Prue appeared in the doorway in an equally large and disturbing hat. This one was black, with a wraparound veil that made Aunt Prue look like the mother of a mob boss at his funeral.”

— Kami Garcia

247. “God’s the one who’s goin’ to have to answer to me.”

— Kami Garcia

248. “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

249. “Who can judge the judge?”

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250. “Everything about me remembers everything about you.”

— Kami Garcia