“Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“You need help, and that's what books are for.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“He saved the world, but he shattered mine.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“Everything about me remembers everything about you”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“Flying or falling, it's up to us.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“Power is neither good nor evil.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link.
Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“words same as always
same as nothing
when nothing is the same”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“the missing piece
my breath
my heart
my memory
me
the other half
the missing half”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“falling not flying
one lost muddy shoe
like the lost worlds
between me and you”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“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.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held for her, a mystery felt most strongly on a bell-chimed Sunday on her solitary exploration of its hidden alleys and squares? Time had fascinated her from childhood, its apparent power to move at different speeds, the dissolution it wrought on minds and bodies, her sense that each moment, all moments past and those to come, were fused into an illusory present which with every breath became the unalterable, indestructible past. In the City of London these moments were caught and solidified in stone and brick, in churches and monuments and in bridges which spanned the grey-brown ever-flowing Thames. She would walk out in spring or summer as early as six o'clock, double-locking the front door behind her, stepping into a silence more profound and mysterious than the absence of noise. Sometimes in this solitary perambulation it seenmed that her own footsteps were muted, as if some part of her were afraid to waken the dead who had walked thse streets and had known the same silence.”
― P.D. James, quote from The Private Patient
“And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96”
― Terry Brooks, quote from Bearers of the Black Staff
“In everything regarding your salvation and the attainment of mercy, you are dependent on your soul. Thus no sacrifice can be too great for you. If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices.”
― C.G. Jung, quote from The Red Book: Liber Novus
“For example, there is an old grammarian’s saw about how a sentence can end in five prepositions. Daddy trudges upstairs to Junior’s bedroom to read him a bedtime story. Junior spots the book, scowls, and asks, “Daddy, what did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“You’re right,” she acknowledged. “I don’t know you,
really. We spent all of about thirty minutes together
nearly a decade ago. Still, I think the Kyle Rhodes
who walked me home and gave me the shirt off his
back would do the right thing no matter how pissed
he was at my office. So if that guy is hanging around
this penthouse anywhere, tell him to call me.”
― Julie James, quote from About That Night
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