Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “By listening, I found a person loyal to those she loves. It was the first unedited glimpse into a girl that holds everything inside.”

— Katie McGarry

202. “Lila stretches the hem of her tank top over her hips as she moves toward me. When she sits, it’s with her thigh melting against mine. Her heat radiates past my jeans to my skin. Every single cell within my body sizzles to life. Play this right, Lincoln. She deserves a man, not a boy.”

— Katie McGarry

203. “Several photographers have mumbled between each other about my glasses. They’re just jealous because I make glasses sexy, and it must suck to not be me.”

— Katie McGarry

204. “Running is still running. It doesn’t matter if it’s a physical move from one place to another or if it’s to within yourself.”

— Katie McGarry

205. “Two roads. One path. Can’t take both.”

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206. “A bead of liquid appears at her hairline and slides down her face. When it hits her cheek, I can’t tell if the drop is from the beer or from her eyes. My hand moves, the need to touch her more powerful than thought. Before I know what I’m doing, I wipe away the wetness.”

— Katie McGarry

207. “Failure and success isn’t an all-or-nothing. It’s a little bit of both and everything in between.”

— Katie McGarry

208. “Dammit – the overgrown ape. Just when I’d started to manipulate Echo back into my corner, her loser boyfriend swooped in and draped an arm around her shoulder.”

— Katie McGarry

209. “Pigpen pulls off the gravel road near the house and severs the engine. I go to open the door and he stops me. “Talk to me a second, and I don’t mean me talking and you nodding your head like that’s acceptable conversation.”

— Katie McGarry

210. “This isn’t me giving him a memory. This is me giving him my heart.”

— Katie McGarry

211. “I will always hold you, I will always love you and I will always be right here.”

— Katie McGarry

212. “We’re human, and we’re built to make mistakes. Success isn’t making the right choice every time. Success is trying again after you’ve failed.”

— Katie McGarry

213. “Pigpen’s on the move.”

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214. “I should run, but I’m paralyzed by the sight of him. Even moving slowly, Isaiah possesses the prowess of a panther. His muscles pronounced in the easy way he strides. The set, determined gaze on me as his prey. This only proves how weak I am. Like the animal on the verge of being devoured in the wild, I stand here stunned by his dangerous beauty.”

— Katie McGarry

215. “I agree. I don’t understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don’t understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn’t know me has been shot. I don’t understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about.”

— Katie McGarry

216. “Pigpen slides into the man’s space and goes nose to nose. To the cop’s credit, he doesn’t flinch.”

— Katie McGarry

217. “It’s the danger that makes it fun.”

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218. “I kiss him. My mouth on his. Without fear. Without thought. All of my emotions, my love, my trust, wrapped up in this embrace.”

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219. “My body screams to stride over to her, wrap my arms around her waist, kiss her until she’s drunk on me and slowly remove every article of clothing on her body.”

— Katie McGarry

220. “A new beer with sweat running down the sides slides into view and Pigpen sidles up beside me grinning like a crazy man.”

— Katie McGarry

221. “Am I holding her together as much as she’s keeping me from falling apart?”

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222. “My heart swelled, causing my chest to ache and breathing to become nearly impossiple. Paralyzed by her beaty, i hovered over her. She was no nymph, but a goddess.”

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223. “We reach the end of the hallway and Pigpen winks at me as he opens a door.”

— Katie McGarry

224. “He’s hit! He’s hit!” Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill.”

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225. “I’d like to somehow find the courage to be on the outside who I am on the inside.”

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226. “Razor: Is it me you’re afraid of touching you? If so, I promise you’ll like it.”

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227. “It means freedom. Something I’ll never have. My destiny was built for me before I sucked in my first breath.”

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228. “Were you stalking her?” the guy next to Razor asks. Pigpen. I bet this is the Pigpen Razor has talked about.”

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229. “There’s a reason why people shouldn’t talk at four in the morning. Exhaustion eliminates the ability to lie. It demolishes the ability to tiptoe around the truth. Emotions are too exposed and real. Heightened to the point of explosion.”

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230. “My heart quickened when I caught a flash of red entering the lunchroom. At the corner door farthest from me, Echo paused and performed a quick scan. She held her books tight to her chest, sleeves clutched in her hands. Our eyes met. Her green eyes melted and she gave me that beautiful siren smile.”

— Katie McGarry

231. “As if you’re a shadow on the wall attached to the horror. Your pain is the ghost of the smack you witnessed, but it’s still pain. Just a different type of pain. Your body may not be cut or bruised, but your soul is ripped apart all the same.”

— Katie McGarry

232. “Anything for you.”

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233. “A man wouldn’t be holding a girl on a bridge like he’s about to toss her over. I swear on my patch, killing you is not in the Terror’s plans.” – Pigpen.”

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234. “Before tonight, I felt like an adult: old and big. I don’t feel so big anymore. Right now I feel small and very, very alone.”

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235. “Pigpen saunters up beside me. He’s in his midtwenties and a wall of solid muscle. Most men wet themselves when he looks in their direction. “Eli wants him in.”

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236. “The feeling that no matter what happened or what I did, there was someplace safe to fall.”

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237. “He shifted his body off of mine and tuckled me close against his warmth. I laid my head on his chest and listened to the comforting sound of his beating heart. Noah ran his hand through my hair. “I’m glad you told me. This needs to be right for you and i’ll wait, for as long as you need.”

— Katie McGarry

238. “Echo’s my solid, my base, my foundation. She has no idea that the single fear that keeps me up at night is knowing one day she’ll discover she doesn’t need me like I need her.”

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239. “From the moment I began to care for you, I’ve always felt like you were slipping away. Sometimes when you kiss me I feel like you’re saying goodbye.”

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240. “Isaiah’s initial response was to let you bleed out in the street, but then he got sentimental and thought Rachel would be sad if you died, so he called and asked me to take care of you. I told him Rachel would’ve gotten over you and that we could make her happy if we bought her a bunny, but he was so damned insistent. See, Isaiah and I have this past. I’ve known him forever because we met each other in a Dumpster –.”

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241. “Soft fingers grip my wrist and forearm. My eyes shoot to hers, but she’s too busy fussing over the noncut to notice how her caress is turning me inside out. In a good way. In a strange way. In a way I haven’t felt since... Beth.”

— Katie McGarry

242. “I – Beth Risk – did something good.”

— Katie McGarry

243. “He ignores me. Our fears are what stifle us and we’re only scared of what we don’t understand.”

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244. “There’s more to her, I know there is. I saw it in her eyes when she laughed with me in the Jeep. Felt it in her touch as we danced.”

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245. “Because I want us to be friends again. I made some really bad choices, and I’m sorry. You’re leaving for Florida and if we don’t fix this now, it won’t be fixed.”

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246. “A prospect is with us and he stands by his bike as Dad, Eli and Pigpen take off their cuts and lay them on the back. Pigpen flashes that I’ve-been-judged-mentally-insane-by-a-court smile at the prospect.”

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247. “And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It’s a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy who an hour ago carried himself like a jungle predator, now has the content aura of a lazy cat bathing in the sun.”

— Katie McGarry

248. “Pigpen grins like a crazy man.”

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249. “God touched him.” Pigpen points one finger in the air. “And with that one touch, he dislocates Jacobs hip. One touch and it was over.”

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250. “Aires and Echo Emerson. Their mother must have hated them to give them names like that.”

— Katie McGarry