Lena Duchannes Quotes

“I was losing her, she wouldn’t listen to me, and I was about to fail my third quiz of the semester. Great.
By the way, can you simplify 7x – 2(4x – 6)?
I knew she could. She was already in Trig.
What does that have to do with anything?
Nothing. But I’m failing this quiz.
She sighed.
A Caster girlfriend had some perks.”
― 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

“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

“Jump or stay in the boat.”
― Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

“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

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“You're
not
the
only
one
falling”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.”
― Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

“Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.
Saving.
Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.”
― Kami Garcia

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

“la de locuras que puedes llegar a ver cuando no miras de verdad.”
― Margaret Stohl Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures