Top 280 Kami Garcia Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “There wasn’t enough chocolate in the world to make this better.”

— Kami Garcia

252. “I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.”

— Kami Garcia

253. “We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

255. “So he’s like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that’s pretty lame. You’re like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.”

— Kami Garcia

256. “I grabbed Aunt Prue’s tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

258. “Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

260. “Are you kidding? I’m supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?”

— Kami Garcia

261. “These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.”

— Kami Garcia

262. “There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn’t made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn’t yet.”

— Kami Garcia

263. “You need help, and that’s what books are for.”

— Kami Garcia

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

— Kami Garcia

265. “Sometimes scars make people stronger.”

— Kami Garcia

266. “I think you’ll fins the impossible is possible more often than we think, particularly in the caster world.”

— Kami Garcia

267. “Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.”

— Kami Garcia

268. “I’m not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss.”

— Kami Garcia

269. “He looks like ambition, she thought. He looks like danger.”

— Kami Garcia

270. “Underneath it, he had snuck out of the house wearing a T-shirt that said I’M WITH STUPID, with arrows pointing in all different directions. It pretty much summed up how I was feeling today, too. Surrounded by stupid.”

— Kami Garcia

271. “Great. Another girl with a notebook.”

— Kami Garcia

272. “I hate and I love. You ask why I do this? I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented. – CATULLUS.”

— Kami Garcia

273. “So this was what girls looked like in the morning.”

— Kami Garcia

274. “A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn’t seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things.”

— Kami Garcia

275. “It’s crazy what you see if you aren’t really looking.”

— Kami Garcia

276. “I don’t know. Maybe push harder?” “You had to check your little book for that?” I was annoyed.”

— Kami Garcia

277. “I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.”

— Kami Garcia

278. “You’ll never get answers if you’re afraid to ask the questions.”

— Kami Garcia

279. “It was funny how one tiny crack could completely ruin something perfect.”

— Kami Garcia

280. “Some things are meant to be and some take some doin’.”

— Kami Garcia

281. “Now Bobby was sitting behind the reception desk in a peach-colored orderly’s uniform, and he didn’t look so tough. He also didn’t look all that happy to see me. Probably didn’t help that his laminated nametag said BOOBY.”

— Kami Garcia

282. “Grief makes people desperate.”

— Kami Garcia

283. “I still can’t think about her being there. It doesn’t make sense. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely old hole in the dirt? Where it’s cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? That can’t be how it ends, after everything, after everything she was.”

— Kami Garcia

284. “I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn’t already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.”

— Kami Garcia

285. “What if the people we loved were bent until they broke and were left with no shape at all?”

— Kami Garcia

286. “I believe everything happens for a reason and usually the reason sucks.”

— Kami Garcia

287. “I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.”

— Kami Garcia

288. “All that destiny garbage, Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.”

— Kami Garcia

289. “Everything means somethin’. Don’t try to change somethin’ wild into somethin’ tame.”

— Kami Garcia

290. “Losing her was the worst thing I could imagine. Like I was falling, but this time I would definitely hit the ground.”

— Kami Garcia

291. “Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn’t read, because reading didn’t feel the same.”

— Kami Garcia