Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

104. “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

105. “If you want out of the box you hide in, then you need to crack open the flaps and bask in some sunlight.”

— Katie McGarry

106. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

108. “I bite the inside of my lip to conceal the smile forming. All right, so this is cool. Very cool. I’m well aware that I’m barely seventeen and in a bar because I’m hiding from the police, and the guy across from me is my opposite in more ways than I can calculate, but I can’t help but feel like a princess who has a knight pledging his loyalty.”

— Katie McGarry

109. “Got a warrant or something?” Pigpen asks in a low voice that’s more of a threat than a question.”

— Katie McGarry

110. “Pigpen hooks his foot around the metal folding chair Eli sat in weeks before and it scrapes against the tiles.”

— Katie McGarry

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “Your mom should be taking care of you. Not the other way around.”

— Katie McGarry

116. “Being born into the world is the greatest crapshoot there is.”

— Katie McGarry

117. “Pain is what makes you grow, it’s what makes you mature, it’s what helps lead you to the path you are meant to be on. If everything is good all the time, there would never be change.”

— Katie McGarry

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

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119. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

121. “Fire can destroy, but it can also create-provide warmth, protection.”

— Katie McGarry

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

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123. “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

124. “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

125. “Life shouldn’t revolve about being the best, and childhood definitely shouldn’t. You should have given me the room to explore who I was without the pressure of succeeding each and every single time.”

— Katie McGarry

126. “She’s my daughter. The only one I have and the only child I’ll ever have. I see the fear in her eyes, I sense her hesitancy, but when I get her to smile it makes up for all those moments in between. I got this one chance. My last chance. I don’t want to blow what little time I have left with her so no, I don’t want anyone rocking her world.”

— Katie McGarry

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “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.”

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132. “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

133. “His grip on my shoulders changes into a massage that causes me to close my eyes. He could touch me like that for the rest of my life and I’d never move.”

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134. “I love Ryan. I’m in love with him. I love how he smiles. I love how he moves. I love his hands on my body and his lips on mine. I love how he laughs. I love how he makes me laugh. I love how he can smooth away the roughness and make me feel like someone worth loving.”

— Katie McGarry

135. “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

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

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137. “He stood up for me like the prince does for the princess in the fairy tales Scott used to read to me as a child. I’m not a princess, but Ryan is a knight.”

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138. “Oz lists the hem of his shirt, exposing his cut abs, and wipes his brow with the material. Oh my with chocolate on top. That was just beautiful.”

— Katie McGarry

139. “The point I’m making is that you can choose to look at the tough moments as failures or you can choose to look at them as a bad few minutes in a good day. It’s okay to feel sorry for yourself for a few seconds, but then you need to pick yourself up and brush yourself off. If you do that, you never fail.”

— Katie McGarry

140. “Beth feels likes this storm. Constant and persistent as a whole, but the more I get close and try to clutch the individual drops of rain, the more the water falls out of my hands.”

— Katie McGarry

141. “Lincoln’s so efficient, especially for a guy who “bends rules”.”

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142. “The most dangerous guy at my school-the lone person who makes me feel safe-is reveling in the way I am touching him.”

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143. “I bunch Rachel’s hair in my fist. The silky strands rub the spot between my fingers and I press my lips to her head. My heart hurts and soars and hurts again, all at the same time. I said I love her. Love her.”

— Katie McGarry

144. “Echo shifts, and her bottom presses into me. I take advantage and draw her closer. Her tank rides up, and I rest my palm against the heat of her stomach. I lived too long in cold isolation before Echo stumbled into my life, bringing her warmth and love.”

— Katie McGarry

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

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146. “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.”

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147. “No more game playing. It’s time we call this fight what it is: a war.”

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148. “I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now – inside and out – all I see is beauty.”

— Katie McGarry

149. “Isaiah is my rock. The string that holds me together when I’m ready to fall apart. He’s the anchor that keeps me from floating away when I go too far. His heart has been the one constant rhythm in my life and I don’t want to let it go.”

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150. “The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now-inside and out-all I see is beauty.”

— Katie McGarry