Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 5 of 6

201. “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

202. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

205. “Maybe all crows were just creepy.”

— Kami Garcia

206. “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

207. “There’s nothing to try, Ethan. It’s over. It’s too late.” She barely whispered, but it felt like she was shouting.”

— Kami Garcia

208. “Link held up a spoon. “Bend this fork with your mind.” “It’s a spoon.” “Trick question.” Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. “So you think with your fists? Good to know.”

— Kami Garcia

209. “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

210. “They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how ’bout you?”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

213. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

218. “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

219. “Stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

220. “Even when I didn’t know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

222. “But you still fight. You still hope. Because there’s a chance you might win. And even if you don’t – you fight for the people you love, especially when they can’t fight for themselves – Kennedy.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

224. “I realized that sometimes we have to step outside the walls and fight. Sometimes the armor we thought was protecting us was actually weighing us down.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

229. “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

230. “I wasn’t an expert on feelings, but Amma’s were all stirred up in cake batter, and she wasn’t about to share them. She’d rather give away the cake.”

— Kami Garcia

231. “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

232. “Who can judge the judge?”

— Kami Garcia

233. “The guys were going down one road, and I was going down another.”

— Kami Garcia

234. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

236. “Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can’t see even a bubble once it’s popped.”

— Kami Garcia

237. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

244. “They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors. They’re junk food. Fatty, but ultimately, terribly unsatisfying.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

246. “How can a place be a no place? You’re either in a place, or you’re not.”

— Kami Garcia

247. “No,” she said suddenly. “It’s not a cage, Nox.” She put her hand on his shoulder. “Love is an open door.”

— Kami Garcia

248. “But you could control her.” “Of course. I’ve got the oldest power of all – an obscene amount of money.”

— Kami Garcia

249. “I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew.”

— Kami Garcia

250. “There wasn’t enough chocolate in the world to make this better.”

— Kami Garcia