Steph > Steph's Quotes

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years
Sixteen of your deepest fears
Sixteen times you dreamed my tears
Falling, Falling through the years

Sixteen moons, sixteen years
Sound of thunder in your ears
Sixteen miles before she nears
Sixteen seeks what sixteen fears

Sixteen moons, sixteen years
sixteen times you dreamed my fears
Sixteen will try to Bind the spears
Sixteen screams just one hears

Sixteen moons, sixteen years
The Claiming moon, the hour nears
In these pages Darkness clears
Powers bind what fire sears

Sixteeth moon, Sixteenth year
now has come the day you fear
Claim or be Claimed
Shed blood, Shed tear
Moon or Sun- destroy, revere.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Beautiful Creatures

“Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?"
"Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening to me -- and by everything, I really meant Lena. An hour was both faster and slower. I felt like I had sucked the air out of a giant balloon, like my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen. Clouds were more interesting, the lunchroom less disgusting, music sounded better, the same old jokes were funnier, and Jackson went from being a clump of grayish-green industrial buildings to a map of times and places where I might run into her. I found myself smiling for no reason, keeping my earphones in and replaying our conversations in my head, just so I could listen to them again. I had seen this kind of thing before. I had just never felt it.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Macon Ethan
I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived
because he had died
a dry ocean, a desert of emotion
happysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under me
i could hear the sound but i could not understand the words
and then i realized the sound was me, breaking
in one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothing
i was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything else
something in me died, something in me was born, i only knew
the girl was gone
whoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the way
the world ends not with a bang but a whimper
claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim
gratitude fury love despair hope hate
first green is gold but nothing green can stay
dont
try
nothing
green
can
stay

-Lena Duchannes”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Darkness can't drive out darkness only light can do that, Hate can't drive out hate only love can do that.”
― Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures

“There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
I never even saw it coming.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord. ”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I wanted to stay this way forever.
Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Kind of like love before first sight.”
and
“Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.”
― KAMI GARCIA/MARGARET STOHL, Beautiful Creatures

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
“Elton John?”
“Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Beautiful Creatures

“She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power."
I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Ethan, I love you. Don’t leave me. I can’t do this without you.
If there was moonlight, I could have seen his face. But there was no moon, not now, and the only light came from the fire, still frozen, surrounding me on every side. The sky was empty, absolutely black. There was nothing. I had lost everything tonight.
I sobbed until I couldn’t breathe and my fingers slipped through his, knowing I would never feel those fingers in my hair again.
Ethan.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures