Kami Garcia Quotes

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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick...

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I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.

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

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadn't brought it up, and they hadn't brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Don't ask, don't tell.

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn't want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

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

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

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