“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Sixteen Moons, Sixteen Years
Sixteen of your deepest fears
Sixteen times you dreamed my tears
Falling, Falling through the years
Sixteen moons, sixteen years
Sound of thunder in your ears
Sixteen miles before she nears
Sixteen seeks what sixteen fears
Sixteen moons, sixteen years
sixteen times you dreamed my fears
Sixteen will try to Bind the spears
Sixteen screams just one hears
Sixteen moons, sixteen years
The Claiming moon, the hour nears
In these pages Darkness clears
Powers bind what fire sears
Sixteeth moon, Sixteenth year
now has come the day you fear
Claim or be Claimed
Shed blood, Shed tear
Moon or Sun- destroy, revere.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“So you are a vampire."
"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Well? Is it true? Did she?"
"Did she what?"
"You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Darkness can't drive out darkness only light can do that, Hate can't drive out hate only love can do that.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence."
"I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake."
"That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“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, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening to me -- and by everything, I really meant Lena. An hour was both faster and slower. I felt like I had sucked the air out of a giant balloon, like my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen. Clouds were more interesting, the lunchroom less disgusting, music sounded better, the same old jokes were funnier, and Jackson went from being a clump of grayish-green industrial buildings to a map of times and places where I might run into her. I found myself smiling for no reason, keeping my earphones in and replaying our conversations in my head, just so I could listen to them again. I had seen this kind of thing before. I had just never felt it.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from 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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
I never even saw it coming.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
“Macon Ethan
I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived
because he had died
a dry ocean, a desert of emotion
happysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under me
i could hear the sound but i could not understand the words
and then i realized the sound was me, breaking
in one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothing
i was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything else
something in me died, something in me was born, i only knew
the girl was gone
whoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the way
the world ends not with a bang but a whimper
claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim
gratitude fury love despair hope hate
first green is gold but nothing green can stay
dont
try
nothing
green
can
stay
-Lena Duchannes”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Creatures
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“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, quote from The Book of Disquiet
“As I trailed dumbly up the next flight it seemed strange that we had never said goodbye. We didn’t know when, if ever, we would see each other again yet neither of us had said a word. I don’t know if Siegfried wanted to say anything but there was a lot try trying to burst from me.
I wanted to thank him for being a friend as well as a boss, for teaching me so much, for never letting me down. There were other things, too, but I never said them.
Come to think of it, I’ve never even thanked him for that fifty pounds…until now.”
― James Herriot, quote from All Things Bright and Beautiful
“Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man's place, if he had stopped in time, long ago; or if, long ago, at a crossroads, instead of taking one road he had taken the opposite one, and after long wandering he had come to be in the place of that man in the square. By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps that had been a possible future of his and is now someone else's present. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Italo Calvino, quote from Invisible Cities
“Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from The Thief Lord
“Sorry,” she said, “I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.”
“Explain protocol,” Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer.
“At the place we’re going, you need to watch your manners. Don’t say ‘explain this’ or ‘explain that.’”
“Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?” Nell said.
Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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