Kami Garcia Quotes:

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

Topics: Heartbreak, Hurt, Mad

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

Topics: Book, Giving, Answers, Beautiful Creatures

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Topics: Truth, Choices, Our Choices

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Topics: Dark, Light

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

Topics: Different

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

Topics: Feelings, Moments, Beautiful Creatures

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

Topics: Girl, Morning, Eye, Sticking Out

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.158, Penguin UK

Topics: Shock

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

Topics: And Love, Jewelry, Danger

I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.

Topics: Sky, World, Want

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

Topics: Hurt, Giving Up, Stupid, I Was Stupid

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.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.335, Hachette UK

Topics: I Love You, Romantic, Beautiful Creatures, Ethan Wate, Romantic I Love You

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Topics: Life, Inspire, Beautiful Creatures, Easy Things

If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.296, Penguin UK

Topics: Happy Birthday, Girl, Mean

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

Topics: School, Years, Drunk, Universal Truth, Best Years Of Your Life

The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.

Topics: Mom, Book, Home, Sunday Afternoons, Pirate Ships

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

Topics: Way, Destination

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

Topics: Old Things, Stories

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

Topics: Soul, Way, Dig Deep

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

Topics: Writing, Stories

words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same

So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.

Topics: Lying, Thinking, Guy

His eyes softened. I thought maybe he pitied me, but it was something else. "Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear. It's always the Mortal who bears it. Trust me, I know." "I don't trust you and you're wrong. We aren't too different." "Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures." He was talking to me, but it didn't feel like he was talking about me anymore. "I apologize for the intrusion. I'll leave you to your sleep.

Topics: Beautiful, Sleep, Eye, Intrusion, Beautiful Creatures

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

Topics: Kissing, Deeper, Remembered

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

Topics: Heart, Moon, Glasses

Maybe all crows were just creepy.

Topics: Creepy, Crow

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.

Topics: Library, Answers, Problem, Lost In Thought

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

Topics: Fall, Funny Relationship, Stranger, Shoelaces

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

Topics: Lying, Home, Remember

I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.

Topics: World, Next, This World

Everything about me remembers everything about you

Topics: Remember

falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you

Topics: Fall, Shoes, Flying, Muddy

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds

Topics: Sound, Lost

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.162, Hachette UK

Topics: Space, Law, Physics, Between You And Me

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

Topics: Men, Boys, Bird

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

Topics: Pain, Strange, Stranger

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

Topics: Fall, Flying

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

Topics: Father, Eye, Boys

red plastic rain her tears stain

Topics: Rain, Tears, Red

I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

Topics: Two, Keys, Eight, Assorted

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

Topics: Book, Reality, Rivers

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

Topics: People, May, Way

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Topics: Games, Littles, Worried, Passing On

As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. "Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave

Topics: Moving, Men, Voice, Voices In My Head

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.

Topics: Needs, Able, Nowhere To Go

You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

Topics: Fall, Sky, One Day

What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.

Topics: School, Numbers, Number 2, Amma

And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!

Topics: Dirty, Looks, Saws

Who can judge the judge?

Topics: Judging, Beautiful Chaos

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

Topics: Teaching, Heart, Suffering, Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering

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.

Topics: Stupid, Two, People, Our Town

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Topics: Purpose, Ends, Graves

the wheel of fate crushes us all

Topics: Crush, Fate, Wheels

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

Topics: Lying, Darkness, Grows

Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley

Topics: Cat, Dark, Fighting, Tall Buildings, Tour Guides

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

Topics: Two, Way, Idiot

Power is neither good nor evil.

Topics: Evil

Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.

Topics: Running, Loneliness, Heart

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Topics: Together, World

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

Topics: Mean, Wish

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Topics: Thinking, Way, Whole Life

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

Topics: Wanted

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

Topics: Feel Better, Knowing, Two

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.

Topics: Past, Dying, World

Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.

Topics: Doing You

Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

Topics: Nightmare, Ends

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

Topics: Moon, Rivers, Tears, Incubus, Seers

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

Topics: Lost

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Topics: Meaning Life

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.

Topics: Kissing, Bigs

What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't matter if we were dead or alive. We could never be kept apart. There were some things more powerful than worlds or universes. She was my world, as much as I was hers. What we had, we knew. The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. Anybody who's ever been in love can tell you that.

Topics: Powerful, Kissing, Together

Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.

Topics: Boys, House, Protect

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

Topics: Powerful, Midnight, Hours, Curfew

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Topics: Art, Writing, College

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

Topics: Dresses, Costumes

...south of Somewhere and north of Nowhere...

Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.

Topics: Sometimes, Seers

You're not the only one falling

Topics: Fall, Lena Duchannes, New Moon, Morgana, Knocked Up

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.

Topics: Girl, Wall, Cities, Just A Girl

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

Topics: Children, Rain

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Topics: Beautiful, Mistake, Believe, Beautiful Creatures, Ethan Wate

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

Topics: Promise, Might, Able

It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.

Topics: Girl, Want, Stuff, Mysterious Things

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

Topics: Mama, Poor, Said

Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light.

Topics: Light, Darkness

The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.

Topics: Love You, People, Different

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

Topics: Dirty, Want, Dirty Talk, Beautiful Chaos

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Topics: Nice, Lying, Would Be, Not Honest

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

Topics: Chocolate, World, Enough

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Topics: Moving, Inspiration, Important

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Topics: Book, Mean, Kind

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

Topics: Book, Writing, Turns

Fate decides until challenged by the fated

Topics: Fate

You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

Topics: Kissing, Sugar, Salt, Beautiful Chaos

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

Topics: Humorous, Toilets, Crap

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

Topics: Gold, Bangs, Sometimes

In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

Topics: Writing, Punishment, Paper, Pro Slavery

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.

Topics: Heart, Trying, Shadow, Beautiful Chaos, Shattering

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.

Topics: Girl, Different, Realizing

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

Topics: Together

I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.

Topics: Moving, Hair, Magic

Ladies first." "Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?

Topics: Men, Firsts, Dangerous

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

Topics: Thinking, Guy, Kind

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.

Topics: Sharks, Looks, Hey

Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.

Topics: Crazy, Hair, Weather

I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach.

Topics: Hands, Jugs, Bleach, Beautiful Chaos

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

Topics: Cat, People, House

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.

Topics: Girl, Mom, Book, Beautiful Creatures, Right Choices

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.

Topics: Stupid, Judging, People, Valuable Lessons

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

Topics: World, Want, Faces

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.

Topics: Book, Age, Doe, Lena Duchannes, Ethan Wate

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Topics: Mom, Book, Smell, Book Covers

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Topics: Book, Littles, Facts

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.

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

Topics: Nice, Being Nice, Remember

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

Topics: People, Judging, Judge Me

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

Topics: Dark, Sitting, World, Alone In The Dark, Sitting Alone

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Topics: Real, Philosophical, Knowing, Beautiful Chaos, Time Left

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Topics: Stupid, People, Choices, Beautiful Chaos

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

Topics: Lonely

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

Topics: Reading, Accusing, Accusing Me

Stupid to the power of stupid.

Topics: Stupid

Nothing in my life is a coincidence.

Topics: Coincidence, Life Is

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

Topics: Littles, Facts

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

Topics: Luck, Beginners, Faces

I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that.

Topics: Links, Wrecks, Sometimes, Busted

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Topics: Tangled, Necklaces, Pockets

Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.

Topics: Pox, Chickens

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

Topics: Stars, Fate, Masters

You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.

Topics: Two, Two Roads

My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?

Topics: Girl, Taken, Drinking, Shears, Runaway

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.

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Way

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

Topics: Lollipop, Red, Licking

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.

Topics: Hair, Rooms, Bed, Soaking

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

Topics: Night, Choices, Vampire, Pervs

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.

Topics: Lying, School, Opening Up

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

Topics: Games, Different, Carnivals, Rigged

When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me? Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

Topics: Blue, Sky, Darkness

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

Topics: Vampire, Pervs

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

Topics: Color, Wind, Sky, Lena Duchannes, Blue Sky

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

Topics: Cliffs, Bigger, Fallen

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

Topics: Beautiful, Changed, Creatures, Beautiful Creatures, Ethan Wate

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.

Topics: Fall, Hair, Ears

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

Topics: Strong, Stupid, Thinking, Lena Duchannes

I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.

Topics: Hurt, Dark, Waiting

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

Topics: Butterfly, Sight, Firsts, Killer Bee, Butterflies In Your Stomach

You know I love a good family feud and I carry a big stick.

Topics: Feuds, Sticks, Good Family, Family Feud

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

Topics: Way, Serious, Pantyhose

A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

Topics: Insane, Vegetarian, Demon

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

Topics: Girl, Saws, Ends, Beautiful Creatures

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

Topics: Cheerleading, Hate, Hate You

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK

Topics: Cells, Atoms, Burning

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

Topics: Thinking, Bugs, Males, Praying Mantis

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

Topics: Heart, Darkness, My Heart, Beautiful Creatures

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

Topics: Fool

The guys were going down one road, and I was going down another.

Topics: Guy

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.

Topics: Daughter, Liars, Differences

Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom

Topics: Heart, Moon, Blood

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

Topics: Arms, Fallen

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

Topics: Crazy

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

Topics: Raindrops, Firsts, First Time

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

Topics: Fall, Moon, Years, Deepest Fear, Tears Falling

Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe." "You're afraid to trust me.

Topics: Believe, Trust Me, Yeah

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.

Topics: Stupid, Fall, Thinking, Stupid Jokes, Ethan Wate

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

Topics: Dream, Rain, Trying

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

Topics: Book, House, Safe

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.

Topics: Girl, Purple, Black, Black Boots

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

Topics: Reading, Fall, Tired, Sunday Night

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.196, Hachette UK

Topics: Broken, Sometimes, Break

I'll love you until the day after forever.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.261, Hachette UK

Topics: Love You, Forever With You, Helen Of Troy, Glow In The Dark, Love You Forever

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

Topics: Beautiful, World, Chaos, Beautiful Chaos

Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining.

Topics: Rain, Outlaw, Spit

moments bleed together, no span to time

Topics: Together, Moments

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.

Topics: Mind, Giants, Towns, Small Minds, Backsides

the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

Topics: Memories, Heart, Missing, Missing Piece

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

Topics: Real, Light, Darkness, 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.

Topics: Hurt, Past, Two, Intertwined

I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to.

Topics: Hero, Journey, Want

Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me. Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.

Topics: Love You, Thinking, Hands, Way I Love You

I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.92, Hachette UK

Topics: Breathe, Needed

Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.

Topics: Nice, Balls, Hey

Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.

Topics: Block, Book, Writing

Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

Topics: Powerful, Moon, Orbit

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

Topics: Life, Stars, Dark, Alone In The Dark, Sitting Alone

"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"

source: - "Beautiful Creatures". Book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, December 1, 2009.

Topics: Crazy, Fall, Tree

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

Topics: Grandma, My Grandma, Ifs

Do you believe in love after last sight?

Topics: Believe, Sight, Lasts, Beautiful Chaos

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.

Topics: Notebook, Moon, Tunnels, Rotating, Pushed Away

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

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.118, Penguin UK

Topics: Lame, Compass, Humans

I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.

Topics: Believe, Sunshine, Smoking

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

Topics: Responsibility, Doe, Sometimes

Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.

Topics: Crazy, The End Of The Day, Ends

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

Topics: Makeup, Years, People

Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand

Topics: Fate, Hands, Wheels

Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

Topics: Funny Things, Giving, Ironic

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

Topics: War, Age, Cotton

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.

Topics: Strong, Eye, Winter, Tiny Hands, Hoping For Something

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

Topics: Book

Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

Topics: Men, Giving, Care, Nobody Cares, All That Remains

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

source: - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK

Topics: Bird, Goes On, Bees, Life Goes On