Kami's Quotes

#1. Kami's demons had somehow become mine without me even knowing them. And I swore on my life that I would fight every one of them, I would fight for her.

S.L. Jennings

#2. February air slid into the thin material of Kami's dress like a sly pickpocket, warmth stolen before she knew it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian ... "Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?"
Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#4. When Kami jumped over a style, he looked like he's never seen one before.
"I have never seen one before," Jared said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. 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.

Kami Garcia

#6. 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.

Kami Garcia

#7. What can I say? Payback's a bitch. But here's the thing: So am I.

Kami Garcia

#8. 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.

Kami Garcia

#9. Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'.
I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

Kami Garcia

#10. 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.

Kami Garcia

#11. 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.

Kami Garcia

#12. 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.

Kami Garcia

#13. I cannot possibly borrow underclothes from Holly and Angela. Bras especially."
"I know," said Jared.
"Oh, you do, do you?" Kami inquired. "And how do you know, may I ask?"
There was a slight flush along the lines of Jared's cheekbones. "Observation.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. What are you doing?
Talking about hot guys, Kami informed him.
Jared said, Oh my God.
You did ask.
It's a topic of absorbing interest, Jared said. I'm sure. Obviously, as a hot guy myself, I wouldn't know.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#15. 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.

Kami Garcia

#16. It's the family motto," Ash said.
"Don't tell me, let me guess," Kami said, since Ash showed no signs of telling her. "Your motto is 'Blonds really do have more fun.' "
Another Lynburn motto possibility, if her mother was to be believed, was "Hot Blond Death.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. 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.

Kami Garcia

#18. So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Kami Garcia

#19. There's nothing to try, Ethan. It's over. It's too late. She barely whispered, but it felt like she was shouting.

Kami Garcia

#20. 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.

Kami Garcia

#21. 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.

Kami Garcia

#22. And nobody's any different from anyone else, not when you come right down to it.

Kami Garcia

#23. Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

Kami Garcia

#24. And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.

Kami Garcia

#25. Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Kami Garcia

#26. It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

Kami Garcia

#27. 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.

Kami Garcia

#28. It's not every day a guy, or even a Sheer, gets bitten by his own hand. At least I hoped it wasn't.

Kami Garcia

#29. Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.

Kami Garcia

#30. Don't spit down my back and tell me it's raining.

Kami Garcia

#31. Link ran his hands over his hair nervously. Dude, my mom's a Baptist. You think she's gonna let me stay in the house when she finds out I'm a Demon? She doesn't even like Methodists.

Kami Garcia

#32. So this is the "smug idiot thinks he's funny" face, Kami observed. Not to be confused with other "smug idiot" variants.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#33. The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses - what's come before and what will come after, you and me -

Kami Garcia

#34. But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This ... you and me ... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.

S.L. Jennings

#35. I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

Kami Garcia

#36. Good for you, Ethan. That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

Kami Garcia

#37. And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order.

Kami Garcia

#38. It's funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

Kami Garcia

#39. Now Bobby was sitting behind the reception desk in a peach-colored orderly's uniform, and he didn't look so tough. He also didn't look all that happy to see me. Probably didn't help that his laminated nametag said BOOBY.

Kami Garcia

#40. Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again.

Kami Garcia

#41. Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#42. 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

Kami Garcia

#43. The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

Kami Garcia

#44. I only date college guys."
"You don't know any college guys," Kami pointed out.
Angela's gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. "Which leaves me with more time for napping.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#45. What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue.
Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him, sending her cheer through their connection. Also, to be perfectly honest, Angela and I were slapping our asses.
As one does.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#46. There's a card up in your little sweetshop advertising Pomeranian cross puppies free to a good home," he observed. "What's your point?" "I'm not a puppy, you can't give me away.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#47. It's a Caster lock, not something on your locker door." Link huffed as he worked the gardening shears into the crack. "You're not from around here. Isn't a door in this whole county that can't be opened with a set of pliers or a sharp toothbrush.

Kami Garcia

#48. At least no one's trying to kill anyone.
Give them about fifteen minutes

Kami Garcia

#49. After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Albert Camus

#50. One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names.

Yasuhiko Kimura

#51. Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

Kami Garcia

#52. Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard."
"I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#53. 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.

Kami Garcia

#54. You are so beautiful, Kami. And so strong. If you only knew how amazing you are ... I'll make you see it. I'll make you fee it.

S.L. Jennings

#55. I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Kami Garcia

#56. Listen to me. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn't matter. You're not one of them. You never were. You're not theirs. You're mine.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#57. Screw all that Incubus crap. That's how you do it Mortal-style.

Kami Garcia

#58. There's difficult, and then there's difficult.

Kami Garcia

#59. Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.
Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

Kami Garcia

#60. But you still fight. You still hope. Because there's a chance you might win. And even if you don't - you fight for the people you love, especially when they can't fight for themselves - Kennedy

Kami Garcia

#61. I don't think Kitchen makes this. What's it called again?"
"Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned.
"What's the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely.
"What they put in it.

Kami Garcia

#62. As Amma used to say, the good thing about the truth is it's true, and there's no arguing with the truth.

Kami Garcia

#63. No," she said suddenly. "It's not a cage, Nox." She put her hand on his shoulder. "Love is an open door.

Kami Garcia

#64. I thought 'artistic' was cunning code for 'nude,' " said Kami. "Is that not true? Have I been lied to? Do I have a tragically perverted mind? Oh well, I guess that's a shame.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#65. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

Kami Garcia

#66. Arelia looked up at Macon. It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.

Kami Garcia

#67. I guess the sky in real life isn't actually perfect. Maybe that's what makes it so perfect.

Kami Garcia

#68. You aren't actually defending the Devil, are you?" Macon held up his hand. "Wait. What am I saying? He's probably your mentor.

Kami Garcia

#69. Hey, Kami. I was wondering if I could get a dance with the best-looking girl in the room."
"Sure," Kami said. "Go ask Angela. Take your life in your hands. I'll miss you and all, but I'm going to give her an alibi for the murder, because that's what best friends do.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#70. This is your life!" Jared shouted.
"That's right!" Kami shouted back at him. "It's my life! I get to decide what to do with it! Don't you dare act like my life means more to you than it does to me!

Sarah Rees Brennan

#71. As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave

Kami Garcia

#72. Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

Kami Garcia

#73. I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ... Lena

Kami Garcia

#74. I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Kami Garcia

#75. A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

Kami Garcia

#76. It's all a matter of perspective. Here's mine: I've been called a lot of things, but what I really am is a survivor - and while there are more than a few stupid Sirens, there are zero stupid survivors.

Kami Garcia

#77. Did you know that pottery can be repaired with gold?" Kami asked. "Then it's meant to be stronger than before, and more beautiful. Which is awesome, though it seems expensive."
Her grandmother had nodded. "Makes sense to me," she said. "Why be broken when you can be gold?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#78. Flying or falling, it's up to us.

Kami Garcia

#79. Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.

Kami Garcia

#80. 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.

Kami Garcia

#81. You need help, and that's what books are for.

Kami Garcia

#82. If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

Kami Garcia

#83. It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

Kami Garcia

#84. I'm telling you that I want you to be mine. Because, Kami, I've been yours since the first day you walked in here. And I think, on some level, you've been mine since then too.

S.L. Jennings

#85. Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.

Kami Garcia

#86. The poems are all wrong.
It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay.

Kami Garcia

#87. Right," said Kami, undaunted. "So a girl in my class called Amber Green, and our headmistress, Ms. Dollard, are both sorcerers. Amber's with Rob, but we could use Ms. Dollard."

"I never trusted Amber," Angela remarked darkly. "Only the evil are that enthusiastic about volleyball.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#88. The miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.

Kami Garcia

#89. Then again, it's not like there's a right way to end a person's life, is there?

Kami Garcia

#90. Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line.

Kami Garcia

#91. The first touch of his mouth was gentle, light and sweet.
Fun fact, Jared put in, Ash wet the bed until he was five.
Kami spluttered out a laugh against Ash's lips.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#92. There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

Kami Garcia

#93. Ladies first."
"Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

Kami Garcia

#94. That's what no one tells you. It's harder to be the one left behind.

Kami Garcia

#95. It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Kami Garcia

#96. I still can't think about her being there. It doesn't make sense. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely old hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? That can't be how it ends, after everything, after everything she was.

Kami Garcia

#97. A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

Kami Garcia

#98. 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.

Kami Garcia

#99. It's like the prime directive on Star Trek. You have to let the planet evolve at its own pace. You can't introduce hyperspace or warp speed until they discover it for themselves.

Kami Garcia

#100. When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

Kami Garcia