“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
“Do you really like him?” She puts her hands on her hips.
“I really, really like him.”
“Wow, that’s a lot. Okay, I’ll help, but only because Logan still really, really likes you, too.”
― Leah Rae Miller, quote from The Summer I Became a Nerd
“When I get those types, the men who just need to control everything, to tell everybody else what to do, I stick it in and break it off. I’m fighting for freedom.”
― Larry Correia, quote from Hard Magic
“Hope has no feathers
Hope takes flight
tethered with twine
like a tattered kite,
slave to the wind's
capricious drift
eager to soar
but needing lift
Hope waits stubbornly
watching the sky
for turmoil, feeding on
things that fly:
crows, ashes, newspapers,
dry leaves in flight
all suggest wind
that could lift a kite
Hope sails and plunges
firmly caught
at the end of her string -
fallen slack, pulling taught,
ragged and featherless.
Hope never flies
but doggedly watches
for windy skies.”
― Elizabeth Wein, quote from Rose Under Fire
“Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties. Not to eliminate them for him, but to train the person to cope with special challenges with special strategies; to make the person aware not that they are ill, but that they are responsible for their lives.”
― Steve Silberman, quote from NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
“We all have our battles. We get past them the best we can by putting one foot in front of the other. Looking back doesn’t do anything but make it hurt a little more.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Corps Security: The Series
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