Quotes from Beautiful Chaos

“I'll love you until the day after forever.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“DEMON MATH
What is JUST in a world
you've ripped in two
as if there could be
a half for me
a half for you
what is FAIR when
there is nothing
left to share
what is YOURS when
your pain is mine to bear
this sad math is mine
this mad path is mine
subtract they say
don't cry
back to the desk
try
forget addition
multiply
and i reply
this is why
remainders
hate
division.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“Do you believe in love after last sight?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“no light no dark no you no me
know light know dark know you know me”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“I will love you until the day after forever.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

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

“...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?"
"Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned.
"What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely.
"What they put in it.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren't holding hands, it felt like we were.
Because what we had, we knew.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’ ”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos

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“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would enter my room and discover the homework books I had left on the bed had disappeared into my backpack. I’d look inside my books and be shocked to find that the homework had been done. Sometimes it had been done well, at others it was slapdash, the writing careless, my own handwriting but scrawled across the page.
As I read the work through, I would get the creepy feeling that someone was watching me. I would turn quickly, trying to catch them out, but the door would be closed. There was never anyone there. Just me. My throat would turn dry. My shoulders would feel numb. The tic in my neck would start dancing as if an insect was burrowing beneath the surface of the skin. The symptoms would intensify into migraines that lasted for days and did not respond to treatment or drugs. The attack would come like a sudden storm, blow itself out of its own accord or unexpectedly vanish.
Objects repeatedly went missing: a favourite pen, a cassette, money. They usually turned up, although once the money had gone it had gone for ever and I would find in the chest of drawers a T-shirt I didn’t remember buying, a Depeche Mode cassette I didn’t like, a box of sketching pencils, some Lego.”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists.

What is the use of music? -- of painting? Who would be fool enough nowadays to prefer Mozart to Carrel, Michael Angelo to the inventor of white mustard?

There is nothing really beautiful save what is of no possible use. Everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and man's needs are low and disgusting, like his own poor, wretched nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

For my part, saving these gentry's presence, I am of those to whom superfluities are necessaries, and I am fond of things and people in inverse ratio to the service they render me. I prefer a Chinese vase with its mandarins and dragons, which is perfectly useless to me, to a utensil which I do use, and the particular talent of mine which I set most store by is that which enables me not to guess logogriphs and charades. I would very willingly renounce my rights as a Frenchman and a citizen for the sight of an undoubted painting by Raphael, or of a beautiful nude woman, -- Princess Borghese, for instance, when she posed for Canova, or Julia Grisi when she is entering her bath. I would most willingly consent to the return of that cannibal, Charles X., if he brought me, from his residence in Bohemia, a case of Tokai or Johannisberg; and the electoral laws would be quite liberal enough, to my mind, were some of our streets broader and some other things less broad. Though I am not a dilettante, I prefer the sound of a poor fiddle and tambourines to that of the Speaker's bell. I would sell my breeches for a ring, and my bread for jam. The occupation which best befits civilized man seems to me to be idleness or analytically smoking a pipe or cigar. I think highly of those who play skittles, and also of those who write verse. You may perceive that my principles are not utilitarian, and that I shall never be the editor of a virtuous paper, unless I am converted, which would be very comical.

Instead of founding a Monthyon prize for the reward of virtue, I would rather bestow -- like Sardanapalus, that great, misunderstood philosopher -- a large reward to him who should invent a new pleasure; for to me enjoyment seems to be the end of life and the only useful thing on this earth. God willed it to be so, for he created women, perfumes, light, lovely flowers, good wine, spirited horses, lapdogs, and Angora cats; for He did not say to his angels, 'Be virtuous,' but, 'Love,' and gave us lips more sensitive than the rest of the skin that we might kiss women, eyes looking upward that we might behold the light, a subtile sense of smell that we might breathe in the soul of the flowers, muscular limbs that we might press the flanks of stallions and fly swift as thought without railway or steam-kettle, delicate hands that we might stroke the long heads of greyhounds, the velvety fur of cats, and the polished shoulder of not very virtuous creatures, and, finally, granted to us alone the triple and glorious privilege of drinking without being thirsty, striking fire, and making love in all seasons, whereby we are very much more distinguished from brutes than by the custom of reading newspapers and framing constitutions.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz

“A story tells of Henry Ford’s buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)

“When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on you, it's this souped-up shine. And you feel like you're in the club. And you don't even know what club it is. You just know you want to stay in it.”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

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