"bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met"
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Kami Garcia quotes (page 6 of 13)
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"I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss"
"red plastic rain her tears stain"
"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"
"And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew."
"falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you"
"My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived."
"I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl."
"Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'."
"South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere."
"I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage."
"A little-known fact about me: I read all the time."
"I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go."
"I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew"
"You need help, and that's what books are for."
"Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind."
"I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems."
"Everything about me remembers everything about you"
"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?"
"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."