Kami Quotes

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us. ~ Kami Garcia

Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one. ~ Michael J. Kami

Lena: Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have a power.
Ethan: Maybe you just have to fall for one. ~ Kami Garcia

Fate decides until challenged by the fated ~ Kami Garcia

I'm not falling anymore. I guess you could say that I'm flying. ~ Kami Garcia

Do you believe in love before first sight , L?
Do you believe in love after last sight, Ethan?
After death-that's what she meant.
It wasn't fair. ~ Kami Garcia

Have mercy, Dad," said Kami. "Tell me you're here to rescue me before they break out the Jell-O. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

But you could control her." "Of course. I've got the oldest power of all - an obscene amount of money. ~ Kami Garcia

It was all sick. ~ Kami Garcia

There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
I never even saw it coming. ~ Kami Garcia

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do," said Jared, low enough so that Kami wasn't sure if she was hearing it or understanding it through Ash. "Your mom's not the boss of you."

Ash smiled, rueful and charming. "My mom's kind of the boss of me."

"Nope," Jared said easily. "We time-share bossing you around, and it's my turn. I say do whatever you want. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier."
"A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her wrist.
Link pushed away his plate, still covered with food. "So let me get this straight. We're gonna go down into the
Tunnels and find this moon outta time with Liv's fancy watch?"
"Selenometer." Liv didn't look up from copying numbers from the dials into her red notebook. ~ Kami Garcia

I saw his face change. His eyes widen. He lunged at me. I wouldn't let go. We stared into eachother's eyes and clawed at eachother's throats. As we rolled over the edge of the water tower and fell the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing ... Lena ~ Kami Garcia

Just for a minute," she said. He's not half bad, she thought, as far as princes go. "Just to watch the sunset," he agreed. He's not half bad, she thought, as far as enemies go. "Just to see the stars," she conceded. This isn't half bad, she thought, as far as wars go. "Just one day," he said. "You promised." And just to take another look at one small photograph hanging on the wall, she thought. Lennox Gates, what is your Siren story? ~ Kami Garcia

One day you're gonna pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. ~ Kami Garcia

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were ~ Kami Garcia

Ash went in, casting a look that was half amused and half dubious back at her. His stride toward his desk was checked when he walked into the line of Jared's glare.

Ash gave him a chilly glance, then continued to his own desk.

Jared turned his attention to Kami. Do you want to go out with him?

We agreed to try to stay out of stuff like that when we were fourteen years old. You remember when we were fourteen! ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

She smelled like sweet tea and old books, like she had always been here. ~ Kami Garcia

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley ~ Kami Garcia

So goes the hard way- the (fall a)part way-the (break a) heart way. ~ Kami Garcia

That muddy black sneaker wasn't supposed to drop. ~ Kami Garcia

And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew. ~ Kami Garcia

I think the Book burned it, poor guy. ~ Kami Garcia

I'm not looking thru you Kami, I'm looking into you. I'm standing here, wondering how the hell a girl so beautiful could hold so much sadness in her gorgeous green eyes. And I'm asking myself why I want- no- why I NEED to know what's made her so sad. And what I can do to take away every ounce of that sadness. I need to know what it will take for you to let me in, so I can do just that. ~ S.L. Jennings

Lena Smoothed her hair. Crazy weather you have down here. ~ Kami Garcia

There's difficult, and then there's difficult. ~ Kami Garcia

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. ~ Kami Garcia

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic. ~ Kami Garcia

You're going to Hallow's Field on your motorcycle?"

"Want a lift?"

"No," said Kami. "I mean, you're going into a situation where something really bad might be happening, and you've decided to make sure they can hear you coming? Better hope being a tavern wench works out, because you, sir, will never be a ninja. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested. ~ Kami Garcia

I like your jumper," she said into it.

"You like my what?" Jared asked. Kami tugged at his sleeve in response and he laughed. "In the civilized land of the Americas, we call that a sweater. A jumper is a dress. You might as well have just said, 'Why, Jared, what a fetching frock you're wearing today.' "

"Why, Jared, what a fetching frock you're wearing today," Kami said instantly, raising her head so she could lift her face up to his. "You look ever so pretty."

Jared laughed, a soft huff of breath, and rested his forehead gently against hers. "Your frock's fairly fetching as well."

Kami closed her eyes, embarrassed to let him see she was happy he'd noticed. "Thanks."

"Not as fetching as mine, of course," Jared added. "I am the prettiest. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid. ~ Kami Garcia

If fear is going to stop us, we should concede failure right now. ~ Kami Garcia

When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here. ~ Alex Tizon

Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope. ~ Kami Garcia

Link flexed his muscles. To be fair, he did nearly split his t-shirt in half. ~ Kami Garcia

My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating. ~ Kami Garcia

She was so pretty it hurt ~ Kami Garcia

The twisting roads run straight between us. ~ Kami Garcia

It's the family motto," Ash said.
"Don't tell me, let me guess," Kami said, since Ash showed no signs of telling her. "Your motto is 'Blonds really do have more fun.' "
Another Lynburn motto possibility, if her mother was to be believed, was "Hot Blond Death. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Every once in a while the universe give us what we ask for, so just make sure you're asking for the right things. ~ Kami Garcia

They were standing in a very large room. The floorboards stretched in a pale expanse at their feet. There was so much dust on the floor that it had a pearly sheen.
"Even you could not nap on this floor," Kami told Angela.
"I don't know, a dust mattress might be very comfortable," said Angela. "Also possibly orthopedic. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

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

So either your a vampire or a perv. Which is it? ~ Kami Garcia

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

Words same as always
same as nothing
when nothing is the same ~ Kami Garcia

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 ~ Kami Garcia

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan. ~ Kami Garcia

His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.
I love you, Kami told him, and cut. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past. ~ Kami Garcia

Now I was standing at her bedroom door, leaning my cheek against the cold white wood of the paneling. I wanted to be with her, as close to her as I could get without having another heart attack. And if this was as near as she would let me get, it was enough for me, for now. ~ Kami Garcia

Don't think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences. ~ Kami Garcia

You can't choose the person who really sees you - the person who knows what you're feeling without you saying a word, the person who can make you laugh and cry and everything in between just by looking at you. The one you can't imagine being lucky enough to have, or unlucky enough to lose. ~ Kami Garcia

This is your life!" Jared shouted.
"That's right!" Kami shouted back at him. "It's my life! I get to decide what to do with it! Don't you dare act like my life means more to you than it does to me! ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered. ~ Kami Garcia

There was some banging around in the hall, and Aunt Prue appeared in the doorway in an equally large and disturbing hat. This one was black, with a wraparound veil that made Aunt Prue look like the mother of a mob boss at his funeral. ~ Kami Garcia

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. ~ Kami Garcia

A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things. ~ Kami Garcia

Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."

You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, said Kami. I'll talk to you in a few minutes. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Nothing in my life is a coincidence. ~ Kami Garcia

I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were. ~ Kami Garcia

Kami glanced over at Angela. Angela lay serenely with her hands folded across her chest and her lashes like black lace against her white cheeks. "You look so sweet when you sleep," Kami said. "Like an emo ten-year-old's first Vampire Bride Barbie. Pull the string on the back and she says cruel things to her hardworking friends. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you. ~ Kami Garcia

Hey Rid?"
She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could ...
"Yeah, Shrinky Dink?"
"You're not all bad."
She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way. ~ Kami Garcia

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. ~ Kami Garcia

Courage is a kind of salvation, ~ Kami Garcia

They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you? ~ Kami Garcia

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman. ~ Kami Garcia

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say. ~ Kami Garcia

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss ~ Kami Garcia

It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the States. We were used to that by now. It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. Ethan Carter Wate hadn't, and I couldn't, either. ~ Kami Garcia

I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen. ~ Kami Garcia

Just 'cause a book don't have a title, don't mean it don't have a name. ~ Kami Garcia

The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars? ~ Kami Garcia

She is great," said Jared. "And beautiful. She's like a star to me, something bright and lovely seen from another world. She's someone else's sun. That's how all other girls are to me. You're my sun. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free. ~ Kami Guildner

Uh," said Ash from the door, "are you - all right?"

"Fine!" Kami said. She typed out: "With the advent of sperm banks, women realized the sheer uselessness of men, and by the year 2100 they were largely extinct" with extreme force. "Absolutely fine, never better! Why do you ask?"

"Er, because I heard you and Jared had a screaming fight. Also, you are typing like a maddened weasel taped to a keyboard."

Kami stopped typing. "You may have a point. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury. ~ Kami Garcia

Dead man, listen well. The Great Keep is not like the Otherworld. The Great Keep has many names. To the Norse it is Valhalla, Hall of the Lords. To the Greeks it is Olympus. There are as many names as there are men who would speak them. ~ Kami Garcia

This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it? ~ Kami Garcia

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

My dad used to say the evil we enact on each other is worse than anything spirits and demons can do to us. ~ Kami Garcia

Not even the most powerful Natural in a millennium had seen him coming. ~ Kami Garcia

Surrounded by strangers who love me
(un)strangers made strange
by pain ~ Kami Garcia

I loved to say quasi. I was saying it now a lot, instead of sort of, or kind of, and it had become a tic. "I am quasi ready to go," I would announce. Or, "I'm feeling a bit quasi today." Murph called me Quasimodo. Or Kami-quasi. Or wild and quasi girl. ~ Lorrie Moore

I want a happily even after. The kind of happiness you have to earn. The kind you find after a broken heart or an injured knee. After a mistake that feels impossible to fix. It's the even after part that matters. I already have the happy part. ~ Kami Garcia

The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i didn't find a way to release it, it would destroy me. ~ Kami Garcia

Oooh, hard to say," Angela sneered behind Kami. "Other than live without magic like everybody els, you loser. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. ~ Kami Garcia

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry? ~ Kami Garcia

Aiki is the way of the Kami and was born of the will of the Kami. Rise early in the morning to greet the sun. Inhale the breath of heaven and let the cosmos inside. Next breath up the rich vibrance of the earth. Blend these breaths with your own breath and become the breath of life itself. Your mind and body will be gladdened, heartache and disappointment will dissipate and you will be filled with gratitude. The movements of Aikido which unite human being with great nature are all given by Sarutahiko-no-O-Kami. Aikido is Misogi..a purification of ourselves ... the way of the universe. ~ Morihei Ueshiba

Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.
Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens. ~ Kami Garcia

Link held up a spoon. "Bend this fork with your mind." "It's a spoon." "Trick question." Sampson grabbed it and crushed it in his hand. Link swallowed. "So you think with your fists? Good to know. ~ Kami Garcia

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind. ~ Kami Garcia

The girl was falling. I was falling. I had to hold on, but I couldn't. If I let go, something terrible would happen to her. But that's the thing. I couldn't let go. I couldn't lose her. It was like I was in lover with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love BEFORE first sight. Which seemed crazy because she was just a girl in a dream. ~ Kami Garcia

So You're Powerless Now, But You're Going Out with One of the X-Men. ~ Kami Garcia

The possibility of someone different, from somewhere different. ~ Kami Garcia

I was dreaming. Not in a dream - so real I could feel the wind as I fell, or smell the metallic stench of blood in the Santee - but actually dreaming. I watched as whole scenes played out in my mind, only something was wrong. The dream felt wrong - or didn't, because I couldn't feel anything. I might as well have been sitting on the curb watching everything as it passed by ... . ~ Kami Garcia

Holly got attacked last night," said Jared.

"So why aren't you at Holly's house?" Kami demanded.

"Several reasons," said Jared. "One being that Holly has a motorbike, and she can run over anyone who tries to attack her. Of course, if you'd take a spin on my bike with me …"

"It's too dangerous. Your bike isn't equipped to drive on the ice," Kami told him. "Which I'm assuming there will be plenty of, since hell will have frozen over the day I get on that thing. I fancy a stroll through the woods to school. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan