"The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell."
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Kami Garcia quotes (page 2 of 13)
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"Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch."
"In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing."
"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."
"You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different."
"I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all."
"You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back."
"Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger."
"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"
"Dig deep. Find your way to your soul."
"I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that."
"It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't."
"I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time."
"Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you."
"There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better."
"Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan."
"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."
"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."
"I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma."
"The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time."