Kami Garcia
Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.Collection: Powerful
There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Lost
Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.Collection: Old Things
Do you believe in love after last sight?Collection: Believe
"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"Collection: Crazy
Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.Collection: Wanted
It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: School
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.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Beautiful
I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!Collection: Dirty
Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls.Collection: Block
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.Collection: Book
Fate decides until challenged by the fatedCollection: Fate
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.Collection: Greatness
You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fixCollection: Fall
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 caveCollection: Moving
You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.Collection: Kissing
When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.Collection: Together
You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.Collection: Humorous
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.Collection: Gold
Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?Collection: Feel Better
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.Collection: Writing
the wheel of fate crushes us allCollection: Crush
When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.Collection: Beautiful
You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.Collection: Book
Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.Collection: Crazy
Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.Collection: Funny Things
At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutesCollection: Giving
Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.Collection: Lying
I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.Collection: Trying
Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "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." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.Collection: Stupid
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.Collection: Lying
Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.Collection: Makeup
Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.Collection: Luck
Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.Collection: Boys
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 -RidleyCollection: Cat
Nothing in my life is a coincidence.Collection: Coincidence
Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.Collection: Lying
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.Collection: Heart
Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.Collection: Book
If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Cat
Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.Collection: Mama
Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light.Collection: Light
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Beautiful