Top 100 Kami Garcia Quotes
#1. I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.
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#2. I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed.
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#3. Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me.
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#4. The good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth. You may not like it, but that doesn't make it any less true.
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#5. So goes the hard way- the (fall a)part way-the (break a) heart way.
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#6. If fear is going to stop us, we should concede failure right now.
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#7. 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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#8. They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.
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#9. 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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#11. 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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#12. What can I say? Payback's a bitch. But here's the thing: So am I.
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#13. The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not to smile, but I was embarrassed, and that only made me smile more. she didn't seem to notice.
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#14. She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here.
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#15. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.
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#16. Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming.
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#17. There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say.
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#18. So either your a vampire or a perv. Which is it?
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#19. 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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#20. Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'.
I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.
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#21. Do you believe in love after last sight?
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#22. Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains
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#23. I wanted to stay this way forever.
Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.
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#24. Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?
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#25. The stuff you're good at and the stuff you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing.
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#26. Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
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#27. I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.
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#28. Marian was right. I was the Wayward. It was my job to find what was lost.
Who was lost.
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#29. So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out.
Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.
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#31. Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.
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#32. Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice
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#33. We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. If we're talking about a Claiming Moon, this is about
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#34. Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down.
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#35. 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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#36. There is a point. I don't know what is it, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt
it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.
That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing. LIVING.
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#37. Lena was going down the list of John's attributes in her mind, a list I was hoping wasn't too long. "He could see and hear and smell things I couldn't."
Link inhaled deeply, then coughed. "Dude, you really need a shower.
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#38. And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!
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#40. This is not the end. It is not even the begging of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the begging.
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#41. We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
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#42. Blood of my heart, protection is thine.
Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine
Body of my body, marrow and mind
Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind
Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon
Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom
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#43. I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway."
"Something like that.
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#44. The truth is the truth. 'Rarely pure and never simple,' as Oscar Wilde would say.
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#45. Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost
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#46. Are the Holy Rollers playing at the fair?" "This lame scene? Nah." He kicked the ground. "They wouldn't book you?" "They said we sucked. But people thought Led Zeppelin sucked, too.
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#47. She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.
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#48. Gatlin was full of God-fearing Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostals, but they couldn't resist the lure of the cards, the possibility of changing the course of their own destiny.
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#49. 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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#50. Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.
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#51. I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.
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#52. Link flexed his muscles. To be fair, he did nearly split his t-shirt in half.
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#53. Give it to me, Wildcat boys!
You can be my Wildcat toys!
Bounce your balls and shoot 'em high.
Ridley's come to Jackson High.
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#54. No, she certainly is not. She would burst into flames if she set one foot on a good Christian campus, and don't you forget it." "Jesus loves everyone, Mom.
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#55. A tall girl towered over us, arms crossed tightly over her chest.
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#56. Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
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#57. There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn't even a threat anymore. At some point, you'd waded so far in you had no choice but to paddle through the middle, if you had any chance of making it to the other side.
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#58. I turn around and start walking, careful to keep my head down so no one sees the moment when the huge smile I was fighting finally breaks free. It takes every ounce of self-control not to look back and see if he's watching.
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#59. I wouldn't know where to start."
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to."
"Thoreau?"
"Harry Emerson Fosdick ...
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#60. The suddenness of it all. And the permanence. The lonely reality of the truth.
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#61. So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.
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#62. 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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#63. You are a miracle, why would you ever want to be normal?
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#64. Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
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#65. One day you're gonna pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through.
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#66. Girls were like aliens, and as far as he was concerned, Ridley was their queen.
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#68. truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.' " "More Oscar Wilde?" "Galileo, the father of modern astronomy. Another
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#69. My headless shadow fell across the warm painted metal, disappearing off the edge, and into the sky.
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#70. ...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.
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#71. I knew what they were doing - or more like not doing. Leaving. I shook my head. "You guys are idiots."
Link grinned. "I'd have gone with 'brave as hell,' myself.
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#72. Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.
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#73. winning is easier when you've got nothing to lose.
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#74. Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?
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#75. Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.
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#76. My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating.
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#77. It's funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.
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#78. Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.
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#79. And nobody's any different from anyone else, not when you come right down to it.
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#80. Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.
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#81. Begging and bragging were the twin sons of the Devil,
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#82. NEVER STOP LEARNIN' IF YOU WANT TO START EARNIN
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#83. Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
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#84. Three can keep a secret if the other two of them are dead.
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#85. Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.
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#86. You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?
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#87. The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.
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#88. And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.
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#89. Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?
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#90. She has already been sentenced to death, like every Mortal.
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#91. What the heck are those?" I said without even thinking. "Ethan Wate, you watch your mouth, or I'll have ta wash it out with soap. You know better than ta use pro-fanity," Aunt Grace said. Which, as far as she was concerned, included words like panties, naked, and bladder.
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#92. Summerville Assisted Seniors House - the seventh circle of hell, as far as the Sisters were concerned.
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#93. It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want
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#94. 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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#95. Do you believe in love before first sight , L?
Do you believe in love after last sight, Ethan?
After death-that's what she meant.
It wasn't fair.
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#96. I love you, too, L. I think I always have.
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#97. 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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#98. There was some banging around in the hall, and Aunt Prue appeared in the doorway in an equally large and disturbing hat. This one was black, with a wraparound veil that made Aunt Prue look like the mother of a mob boss at his funeral.
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#99. The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.
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#100. In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future "liberally minded" paper I was bound to write.
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