Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

204. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

209. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

211. “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!”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

213. “Stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

217. “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

218. “Maybe all crows were just creepy.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

220. “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

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

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

— Kami Garcia

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

231. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

235. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

237. “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

238. “Who can judge the judge?”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

241. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

244. “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

245. “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

246. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia