Kami Garcia Quotes - Page 5

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.

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

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?

Everything about me remembers everything about you

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

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

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

Stupid to the power of stupid.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

Nothing in my life is a coincidence.

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.