Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “As much as you want to, you can’t take all our pain away. Hurting, it’s a part of life, and if you try to stop any of us from being in pain, that means you’re not allowing us to actually live.”

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

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

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

— Katie McGarry

106. “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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107. “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.”

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

— Katie McGarry

109. “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

110. “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

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

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

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113. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

114. “Not when I lost my dream.”

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

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

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117. “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

118. “Isaiah and I were meant to be friends and now I’m losing my only friend.”

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119. “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

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

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122. “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.”

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123. “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

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

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

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126. “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

127. “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.”

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128. “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

129. “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

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

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

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

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133. “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.”

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

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

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136. “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

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

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138. “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.”

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139. “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.”

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140. “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

141. “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.”

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142. “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.”

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143. “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.”

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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “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.”

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

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149. “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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150. “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