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

202. “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

203. “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

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

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205. “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

206. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “Maybe all crows were just creepy.”

— Kami Garcia

216. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

218. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

233. “Stupid to the power of stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

236. “Who can judge the judge?”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

240. “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

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

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Kami Garcia