Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.”

— Kami Garcia

202. “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

203. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

205. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

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

— Kami Garcia

215. “Stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

216. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

218. “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

219. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

221. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— 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. “Maybe all crows were just creepy.”

— Kami Garcia

232. “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

233. “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

234. “Who can judge the judge?”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

250. “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