Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “I’m not quiet because I’m not proving a point. I’m quit because I gave no idea what to say to the emotions tearing me up.”

— Katie McGarry

103. “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

104. “Not when I lost my dream.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

110. “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

111. “Not when everything inside me is so twisted it hurts to breathe.”

— Katie McGarry

112. “I’m in love with you. This isn’t a memory, but a promise, do you hear me?”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

114. “My eyes met Tyler’s and a smile tugged at his lips. Tyler remembered me. I waved at him and, to continue the miracle, he waved back.”

— Katie McGarry

115. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

117. “I barely heard her muffled comment of “Yay,” but the sarcastic jazz hands were hard to miss.”

— Katie McGarry

118. “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

119. “Some guys touch the girls they love. Others touch the girls they use. The worst touch girls they hurt.”

— Katie McGarry

120. “Pigpen taps his steering wheel. “He’s in love with her, but he won’t fully commit until you’re on board with her or at least talk to him again.”

— Katie McGarry

121. “I’m right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I’ve been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

123. “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

124. “The boy everyone sees but nobody knows is with the girl who everybody knows but nobody sees.”

— Katie McGarry

125. “My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up.”

— Katie McGarry

126. “I will her to look away, but she doesn’t and I’m secretly proud the girl won’t back down. I hate this connection. I crave this connection. She’s continually messing with my head.”

— Katie McGarry

127. “Her spirit is hurting, weak and in need, and so is mine. I don’t know much either. I’m confused and blinded by the fog we’ve stumbled into, but Violet is real and warm and a fortress by which I fall to my knees whenever I come into contact. I need her, she needs me and tonight we just need to hold each other.”

— Katie McGarry

128. “I already texted Pigpen and Dust and they’re heading with us.”

— Katie McGarry

129. “Pigpen slips in between a group of guys and waves two fingers at the prospect behind the bar. The prospect slides two longnecks to him, and with them in hand, Pigpen motions with his chin for me to follow.”

— Katie McGarry

130. “He has a wide gait and I struggle to appear casual as I attempt to match his stride. His shirt’s back on, which is a sin. He could definitely give Echo’s guy a run for his money in the abs department.”

— Katie McGarry

131. “Silences seem longer in darkness. I think it’s because it’s harder to lie when the lights are off. There’s a rawness that only belongs to the night and the truth can’t help but be set free.”

— Katie McGarry

132. “She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It’s indifference that should scare you.”

— Katie McGarry

133. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.”

— Katie McGarry

134. “You okay, brother?” Pigpen asks.”

— Katie McGarry

135. “People laugh as I pass. They’re judging me and their judgment is spot on. I don’t belong here. I never have.”

— Katie McGarry

136. “Don’t you dare ever hope for more. There’s no such thing as living happily ever after or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The world is how it is and there always has to be bottom-feeders. People like you and me, we’re it, and the world might want us to believe we can have more, but the moment we try to break out of the water they’ll shove us down into the mud. It’s better to know the truth. It hurts less if you accept society’s crappy rules.”

— Katie McGarry

137. “Isaiah grabs my hand and leads me away from the police... My heart stutters. He’s holding my hand. A guy is holding my hand. Touching it. Like his fingers entwined with mine. I’ve never held a guy’s hand before and it feels good. So good. Warm. Strong. Awesome. And it would only be a million times better if the guy holding my hand liked me.”

— Katie McGarry

138. “I love you, Scarlett. We’ve been connected for as long as I can remember, and I want more than a connection, I want us to make it to forever.”

— Katie McGarry

139. “Maybe this is what happens when you fall in love. On the outside a lighter is nothing amazing, but it holds all the ingredients that can create something wonderful. With a few pushes in the right direction, you can inspire something so brilliant that it pushes back the darkness.”

— Katie McGarry

140. “Thomas make it easy to cave to temptation with his golden – blond hair, muscle from head to toe and sexy brooding expression a few girls have written about in poems.”

— Katie McGarry

141. “Without a word to anyone, Eli and Cyrus straddle their bikes and strap on their helmets. That one act causes everyone else to mount up and start their motorcycles. Soon the yard shakes with the thunder of angry engines. Cyrus pulls out with Eli on his right. They head onto Thunder Road toward the main drag and the guys follow behind them in pairs.”

— Katie McGarry

142. “Losing someone you love, it’d be similar to losing your home.”

— Katie McGarry

143. “Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that’s what it’s called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don’t milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we’ll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.”

— Katie McGarry

144. “An equal. That’s all she wants and it feels sickening and strange that I never understood it until now. I thought loving her made us equal, but love doesn’t necessarily mean that I listened to her. I listened... to what I thought was best for her... to what was best for me.”

— Katie McGarry

145. “Yeah, I know. I’m supposed to be this twenty-first-century woman and obsessed with a man desiring me for my massive intellect. I am woman, hear me roar, and all that stuff, but for once, it would have been really freaking awesome to be the girl in the pretty dress left alone with the gorgeous bad boy who wants to kiss me.”

— Katie McGarry

146. “The suck part about falling is that eventual crash landing.”

— Katie McGarry

147. “Pigpen flashes that supermodel grin. “We told him to shove it.”

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148. “Isaiah places his hands on the top of my car and leans over so that his head is level with mine. The strong scent of dark spices tickles my nose and I inhale deeply. A brief calm washes through me and somehow I know Isaiah will get me out of this.”

— Katie McGarry

149. “This love, it has been worth it – even if I’m losing a piece of my heart in the process.”

— Katie McGarry

150. “She relaxed, fitting perfectly into my body. In the crisp, cold February air, we swayed together, moving to our own personal beat. For one moment, we escaped hell. No teachers, no therapist, no well-meaning friends, no nightmares-just the two of us, dancing.”

— Katie McGarry