Kami Garcia Quotes

“It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Beautiful Darkness

“If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”
― Kami Garcia

“Screw all that Incubus crap. That's how you do it Mortal-style.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you."
"What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“Seventeen moons, seventeen years,
Eyes where Dark or Light appears,
Gold for yes and green for no,
Seventeen the last to know.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor was bathed in a creeping shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped up into the walls.......”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Unmarked

“New York was the toughest place in the world if you couldn’t afford your rent. On the other hand, if you could afford not only your own rent but the rent of a thousand other people, New York was the greatest city in the universe.”
― Kami Garcia and Margret Stohl