Top 100 Kami Garcia Quotes
#1. I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.
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#2. So goes the hard way- the (fall a)part way-the (break a) heart way.
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#3. I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew
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#4. I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.
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#5. Somewtimes I wrote random stuff in the middle of my essays, just to see if my teachers would say anything. No one ever did.
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#6. This was the doorway to the heart of the Great Keep. The one place
any son of Lila Jane Evers Wate would instinctively find his way,
whether or not he was a Wayward.
The library.
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#7. I wanted to stay this way forever.
Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.
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#8. Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?
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#9. Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn't want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead.
He saved the world, but he shattered mine.
What now?
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#11. My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.
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#12. Link flexed his muscles. To be fair, he did nearly split his t-shirt in half.
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#13. There's nothing to try, Ethan. It's over. It's too late. She barely whispered, but it felt like she was shouting.
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#14. Girls were like aliens, and as far as he was concerned, Ridley was their queen.
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#15. winning is easier when you've got nothing to lose.
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#16. Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?
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#17. And nobody's any different from anyone else, not when you come right down to it.
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#18. Begging and bragging were the twin sons of the Devil,
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#19. NEVER STOP LEARNIN' IF YOU WANT TO START EARNIN
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#20. Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
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#21. It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.
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#22. It's not every day a guy, or even a Sheer, gets bitten by his own hand. At least I hoped it wasn't.
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#23. The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.
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#24. Don't spit down my back and tell me it's raining.
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#25. But when you're in love, you're not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me - what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?
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#26. It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.
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#27. The guys were going down one road, and I was going down another.
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#29. Oblivion eyes on a cereal box,
the warm blinds of a father
lost and last to know
lost and last to love
last boy lost
you can't see
even a bubble
once it's
popped
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#30. Your Seer needs my help to do somethin' she can't. To join the ti-bon-age, mend the seams she ripped herself."
Link didn't understand either. "T-bone what? What kinda steak are we talkin' about here?
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#31. Words same as always
same as nothing
when nothing is the same
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#32. Here's the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you're afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.
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#33. Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?
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#34. Though I walk through the valley a the shadow a death, I fear no evil.
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#35. If I had anyone to talk to about it, I knew they would say to give her time. I also knew that was just something people said when there was nothing left to say and nothing you could do.
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#36. I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.
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#37. It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.
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#38. There's difficult, and then there's difficult.
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#39. Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels.
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#40. Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.
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#41. I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.
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#42. When it came to relationships, the truth never set anyone free. The truth only set things on fire.
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#43. We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
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#44. The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.
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#45. Don't think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory.
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#46. I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.
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#47. Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.
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#48. No light no dark no you no me
know light know dark know you know me
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#49. Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?"
The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.
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#50. Your future together? To get there, it means refusing all the other crap the universe hands you. It means telling the Wheel of Fate to suck it and roll over someone else. It means not settling for any of the other endings you see coming. It means holding out.
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#51. I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.
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#52. Because we were dead, we could see everything. And because we were dead, it didn't matter what we could see. So the whole seeing-things-from-the-grave concept? Majorly overrated. All you ended up seeing was more than you wanted to in the first place.
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#53. Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear.
She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me.
Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.
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#54. My mother was lost to me, but I wasn't lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.
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#55. When everything seems like its changed ... its because things have. Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
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#57. Don't you start, Mercy Lynne. You know vegetablism is one step closer to a world without panties an' preachers. That there is a documentated fact.
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#58. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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#59. You need help, and that's what books are for.
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#60. Why are you fighting like this? You're acting like Reece and Ridley.
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#61. moments bleed together, no span to time
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#62. The poems are all wrong.
It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay.
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#63. Then again, it's not like there's a right way to end a person's life, is there?
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#64. Amma gave me some of her best stinkeye. How does a bird know to fly south? How does a catfish know how to swim? I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Ethan Wate. They don't call me a Seer for nothin'.
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#65. Everyone actually stepped aside when she came down the hall. Like she was a rock star. Or a leper.
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#66. I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss
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#67. It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.
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#68. That's what no one tells you. It's harder to be the one left behind.
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#69. Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.
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#70. I believe the term you're searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I've discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.
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#72. Death is the beginning of Immortality. - MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
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#73. The twisting roads run straight between us.
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#74. Probation? How amusing. Probation would imply a source of authority.
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#75. Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley
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#76. I'm sure you understand my meanin'. After all, you're one of us. Your daddy was born here and your mamma was buried here. You belong here. Not everyone does. I stared back at her. She was in her van before I could say another word. This time, Mrs. Lincoln was after more than burning a few books.
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#77. Nothing was deceptive. Nothing was much harder to describe or fix or stop.
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#78. Let's get something straight. I'm supposed to be the bad guy. I will always disappoint you. Your parents will hate me. You should not root for me. I am not your role model. I don't know why everyone seems to forget that. I never do.
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#79. Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?
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#80. The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?
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#81. Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.
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#82. Don't be stupid. You sound like his girlfriend. (Wesley Jefferson Lincoln)
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#83. Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.
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#84. I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.
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#85. Link held up a spoon. "Bend this fork with your mind." "It's a spoon." "Trick question." Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. "So you think with your fists? Good to know.
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#86. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.'
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#87. Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her.
Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
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#88. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve's problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon's problem with Lila, Link's with Ridley. Probably even Ridley's with Link.
Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.
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#89. What will be and what will not be are equally possible and impossible, Liv explained.
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#90. The price must be paid to forge the New Order.
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#91. Sometimes I didn't think the world was worth it.
Saving.
Sometimes I didn't think I was worth it either.
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#92. It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love before first sight.
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#93. He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
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#94. Not bein' right isn't always somebody's fault. Sometimes it's just a fact, like the cards you pull.
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#95. Right under the sign that said WELCOME TO GATLIN, HOME OF THE SOUTH'S MOST UNIQUE HISTORIC PLANTATION HOMES AND THE WORLD'S BEST BUTTERMILK PIE. I wasn't sure about the pie, but the rest was true.
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#97. Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans.
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#98. A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.
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#99. Just because you live in the middle of nowhere, doesn't know you can't know where you live.
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#100. We love what we love and who
we love who we love and why
we love why we love and find
a falling shoelace knotted and strung
between the fingers of strangers
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