Top 300 Katie McGarry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Some people, like me and Violent, aren’t supposed to break up. Some people like me and Violet, don’t know how to be near each other when we do part ways.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

203. “Noah can’t stand me, but he loves me. Takes up for me. Like siblings.”

— Katie McGarry

204. “Mom has no idea how badly I wish she had been there for me. But she wasn’t and now its too late.”

— Katie McGarry

205. “Good girls like Breanna like to look, but they don’t like to touch.”

— Katie McGarry

206. “Let’s who those rich pricks that talent beats money.”

— Katie McGarry

207. “Wow. I thought I was the only person at this school faking every moment.”

— Katie McGarry

208. “Pigpen shoves off the railing and looks at me like I’ve been caught knocking back the liquor store.”

— Katie McGarry

209. “He lifts his hand and hesitates when I shudder. His lips press together in a line. “He will pay for touching you.”

— Katie McGarry

210. “How can you fully hate someone who does all the stupid things because that’s the way he loves?”

— Katie McGarry

211. “How could he love her when she’d destroyed so much?”

— Katie McGarry

212. “Go there and I swear to God you’ll have to check ‘other’ when asked if you’re male or female.”

— Katie McGarry

213. “The weight of the world isn’t on you, you know?”

— Katie McGarry

214. “There’s something more than friendship between us. A trust and love that had taken root when we were children, something that has grown, something that once took a wrong turn and had to be pruned. Something that has been allowed to reflourish and is on the verge of going wild.”

— Katie McGarry

215. “Besides me, Pigpen is the youngest guy in here and then there’s Eli.”

— Katie McGarry

216. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

217. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

218. “Anything for you.”

— Katie McGarry

219. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

221. “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

222. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

223. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

224. “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

225. “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 –.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

228. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

229. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

230. “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

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

234. “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

235. “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

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

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

— Katie McGarry

238. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

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

— Katie McGarry

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

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

— Katie McGarry

244. “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

245. “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.”

— Katie McGarry

246. “Pigpen got excited because he made me grin when he told me that he thought PTSD stood for Probably There’s Something wrong but Dunno what.”

— Katie McGarry

247. “Once upon a time, my world revolved around you.”

— Katie McGarry

248. “The answering call causes my ears to ring. Pigpen stares at me, unblinking as the mantra is repeated three more times followed by over a hundred men howling into the night.”

— Katie McGarry

249. “I don’t know what love is very well either, but I hope it feels like this.”

— Katie McGarry

250. “Pigpen’s been tearing through the cabin, the yard, the clubhouse like a toddler on the warpath.”

— Katie McGarry