Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I can’t keep living like this. I can’t keep being who everyone wants me to be.”

— Katie McGarry

52. “This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It’s not perfect and it’s messy as hell. And it’s exactly what I need.”

— Katie McGarry

53. “He’s gorgeous and dangerous. Like the fallen angel Lucifer must have been. This could be the equivalent of a handshake with the devil.”

— Katie McGarry

54. “This is heartbreaking and consuming and addictive. It’s terrifying and peaceful, crazy and serene. It’s a million things in one brief moment and it’s something I don’t understand and never want to live without.”

— Katie McGarry

55. “It’s hard to believe she’s the same girl from Taco Bell. Beth was hard and shut down that night. The girl on my bed is open and soft.”

— Katie McGarry

56. “Her shoulders never shook. No tears streamed down her face. The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see – the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived.”

— Katie McGarry

57. “The worst kind of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it.”

— Katie McGarry

58. “My mind’s a frightening place, the playland for fallen angels.”

— Katie McGarry

59. “I watched you battle against the worst memory of your life and I watched you win. Make no mistake, Echo. I battled right beside you.”

— Katie McGarry

60. “Baby, you’ve got enough strength and tenacity to take down drug dealers. You’ll be fine.”

— Katie McGarry

61. “Less than a year and a half ago, the guy was crawling around in the muck in some foreign country as an Army Ranger. Even though he was recruited by the army for his mad computer skills, it was a bullet in the shoulder and chest he took saving someone in his squad that brought him home for good. The brother is damn lethal.”

— Katie McGarry

62. “How could I have been so blind? He never left me. My brother – he never left.”

— Katie McGarry

63. “Sometimes what we need the most is what we fight the hardest: change.”

— Katie McGarry

64. “Things are complicated. No doubt. But we’ll battle through this. We have to. Giving up is not an option.”

— Katie McGarry

65. “Noah drew me closer to him. “It’s okay. I’ve got you.”

— Katie McGarry

66. “I’m done being the grown-up. For a few minutes I want to be the kid. I want my mom. I just want my mom.”

— Katie McGarry

67. “Because the only way anyone will ever be okay with me is if they love me. Really love me enough to not care that I’m damaged.”

— Katie McGarry

68. “If you’re scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don’t walk away from us because you think it would be better for me. Here’s the reality, Echo: I want to be by your side. If you want to go to the mall stark naked so you can show the world your scars, then let me hold your hand. If you want to see your mom, then tell me that too. I may not always understand, but damn, baby, I’ll try.”

— Katie McGarry

69. “An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What type of person would I be if I left my savior behind. “I’m not leaving you behind.”

— Katie McGarry

70. “They need a moment together and, having nothing but time, I sit on the top step and wonder if I’ll find someone who will understand and accept this life like my mother.”

— Katie McGarry

71. “A warm, tickling touch crashed me back to earth. Maybe it sent me straight to heaven. Either way, it dragged me out of hell.”

— Katie McGarry

72. “How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?”

— Katie McGarry

73. “Once an insult like that has been released, there’s no way to take it back. It becomes one more cut on my soul.”

— Katie McGarry

74. “I promise I’ll take care of you,” he whispers. “You’re safe with me.” Even with an army of motorcycle guys outside that door, I firmly believe him.”

— Katie McGarry

75. “People don’t care what really happened – the truth – they care about what makes them feel better, what puts them higher on the scorecard than someone else – even if it’s a lie.”

— Katie McGarry

76. “Cyrus may have been voted in by the members as president, but everyone knows that Eli is the chief of this tribe. Not because that’s how he wants it, it’s because every man who wears a Terror cut respects the hell out of him. But because of Eli’s stint in prison, he can’t hold an official office.”

— Katie McGarry

77. “I can’t think straight when you ’re this close.”

— Katie McGarry

78. “I want this gift to prove that I know her and that I see beyond black hair and nose rings and cut-up jeans. I see her as she really is – I see Beth.”

— Katie McGarry

79. “Don’t let your fears create walls or define you.”

— Katie McGarry

80. “I’m scared of a ton of things and all of them have to do with losing the people I love.” He pauses. “I learned a long time ago that I can’t control everything and now I’m learning I can’t control death. Sometimes I feel cursed. Like I get to watch everyone I love slip through my fingers.”

— Katie McGarry

81. “I’m already half-dust, Hayley, and I’m tired of trying to hold together what’s left.”

— Katie McGarry

82. “For once in my life, I’d love to be myself around everyone else and be accepted for who I am instead of staying silent for fear of people mocking me.”

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83. “People who live in the luxury of a steady paycheck and food in their bellies get too caught up in right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, heroes and villains, even truth and lies. As if we’re all either one or the other. As if we all have a choice. As if I have a choice. But I don’t believe in choices. I believe in survival.”

— Katie McGarry

84. “There are moments when your heart breaks and melts at the same time. When there’s so much love flooding your soul that you’re drowning in the tide. This is that moment with Noah.”

— Katie McGarry

85. “Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn’t that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?”

— Katie McGarry

86. “There are times when you stand on the cusp of moments so huge, you know you’ll remember them forever. This is that moment for me and for Ryan.”

— Katie McGarry

87. “My grandpa once told me never to provoke an injured bear, especially one nursing its wounds, but sometimes the bear needs to be poked.”

— Katie McGarry

88. “Which is great, since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding my motorcycle in forty-degree weather while it rains.”

— Katie McGarry

89. “Sometimes we don’t choose the memories, but they choose us.”

— Katie McGarry

90. “Sometimes, there aren’t words and that’s okay.”

— Katie McGarry

91. “You’ve been asleep for a very long time,” she whispers. “It’s time to wake up, Scarlett. There’s a whole world of possibility waiting for you.”

— Katie McGarry

92. “Last night, the two of us said too much, felt too much, and I had somehow convinced myself that the moment we shared would remain that–a moment. But it didn’t; the emotions between us linger and I don’t know what that means.”

— Katie McGarry

93. “There’s no one who has ever gotten me the way you do. No one who understands this land like you either. I’ve messed up in the past, but I promise, I won’t mess up again. I’m here, and I promise I’m never going away.”

— Katie McGarry

94. “The devil dances with those who walk alone on an edge.”

— Katie McGarry

95. “Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.”

— Katie McGarry

96. “I’m Breanna Miller. The smart girl. The quiet girl. The one who belongs to a large family. I’m Breanna Miller. Number 5 in the line of 9. The girl who everybody knows and nobody sees. I’m Breanna Miller. A girl who went to Shamrock’s and ended up falling in love with Thomas Turner-Razor of the Reign of Terror. The boy who everyone sees and nobody knows. I’ve been with him for months. I’m in love with him and I don’t care who knows.”

— Katie McGarry

97. “I’m searching for magic – not the Christmas morning type, but the type of magic that can be found by being courageous, being the girl who takes chances, being the girl who will dance. I want to be the girl who is seen.”

— Katie McGarry

98. “The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone.”

— Katie McGarry

99. “Not when I lost my dream.”

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100. “I inhale his dark scent, and I have the overwhelming feeling of coming home.”

— Katie McGarry