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Kami Garcia, born on March 25, 1972, is a renowned American author known for her works in fantasy and young adult literature. Her books have gained widespread popularity among readers.

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“moments bleed together, no span to time”

Moments Together

Author:Kami Garcia

“There are no coincidences.”

Coincidence Beautiful Creatures

Book:The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos

Source: The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos

“Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.”

Made Remember Found Nice Mets Shots Balls Yeah Hey Grades Bus

Author:Kami Garcia

“Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.”

Book:Beautiful Chaos

Source: Beautiful Chaos

“Do you believe in love after last sight?”

Believe Lasts Sight Believe In Love Beautiful Chaos

Author:Kami Garcia

“Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?”

Book Coffins Filthy Tin

Author:Kami Garcia

“Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?”

Book:Beautiful Chaos

Source: Beautiful Chaos

“the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A”

Thinking Way Whole One Thing Beautiful Chaos

Book:Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series

Source: Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series

“Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand”

Hands Turns Fate Wheels

Author:Kami Garcia

“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”

Ifs War States Age South Aggression Sixty Cotton

Author:Kami Garcia

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

Church Sunday Southern Saturday Baptists Southern Baptist Saturday And Sunday

Author:Kami Garcia

“The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.”

Black Touched Toes Sneakers

Author:Kami Garcia

“I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What they put in it.”

Thinking Red Surprise Kitchen Links Gelatin

Book:Beautiful Creatures: Dream Dark

Source: Beautiful Creatures: Dream Dark

“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.”

Believe Whole I Believe Term Smoking Sunshine Formal Jackets More To Life

Author:Kami Garcia

“Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?”

People Years Age Seven Appropriate Makeup Seven Years

Author:Kami Garcia

“Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.”

Doe Stills Sometimes Left Responsibility Clean Mess Right Thing Taking Responsibility

Author:Kami Garcia

“I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.”

Ifs Enough Hands Happens Eye Together Strong Wish Gone Seeing Praying Fingers Winter Tiny Tape Aunt Lifting Foreheads Make It Happen Tubes Frail Heads Up Twigs Hoping For Something Tiny Hands

Author:Kami Garcia

“Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains”

Knows Men Giving Care Remains Staring Nobody Knows Dead Man Giving In Nobody Cares All That Remains Fear Me

Author:Kami Garcia

“She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”

Book:Beautiful Creatures

Source: Beautiful Creatures

“I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.”

Ifs Mind Believe Important Hard Moments Remember Happened Details Yesterday Funeral Tricky Blocked Hard To Believe

Author:Kami Garcia

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

Grows Goes On Bird Seeds Bees Life Goes On

Book:Beautiful Darkness

Source: Beautiful Darkness

“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.”

Powerful Sun Mines Planets Arms Moon Caught Noise Heat Affected Tides Orbit Blur Slippery

Author:Kami Garcia

“So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.”

Humans Compass Superpower Lame

Book:Beautiful Darkness

Source: Beautiful Darkness

“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.”

Kind Book Different Beautiful Cold Glasses Peaceful Milk Sunny Cracked Binding Sunny Day

Author:Kami Garcia

“You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”

Author:Kami Garcia

“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.”

Knows Feels Ends Crazy The End Of The Day

Author:Kami Garcia

“Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.”

Sometimes Break Broken Needed

Book:Beautiful Chaos

Source: Beautiful Chaos

“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.”

Giving Kind Wanted Mets Ironic Far Away Funny Things

Author:Kami Garcia

“At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes”

Giving Trying Minutes Fifteen

Author:Kami Garcia

“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.”

Moving Lying Sky Blue Lays Staring Sat Awkward Blue Sky Lying Down

Author:Kami Garcia

“I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.”

Book:Beautiful Creatures

Source: Beautiful Creatures

“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.”

Hands Eye Care Heard Stupid Moon Corners Bother I Care Who Cares Stupidest

Author:Kami Garcia

“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.”

Littles Book Use Lying Reading House Car Missing Bed Twenties Tables Glasses Edges Core Kitchen Apples Bags Bathroom Stairs Sock Forks Kitchen Table Bookmarks Reading Glasses

Author:Kami Garcia

“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.”

Knows Made Faces Turns Makeup Contracts Thirteen

Author:Kami Garcia

“Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.”

Said Faces Luck Spread Beginners Mischievous

Author:Kami Garcia

“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.”

House Boys Protect

Author:Kami Garcia

“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”

Whole Faces Fighting Dark Magic Building Cat Bounds Guides Bunch Leap Tall Mary Superpower Tall Buildings Tour Guides

Author:Kami Garcia

“Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.”

Lying Grows Darkness

Author:Kami Garcia

“the wheel of fate crushes us all”

Fate Crush Wheels

Author:Kami Garcia

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

Ends Purpose Given Greatness Graves

Book:Beautiful Darkness

Source: Beautiful Darkness

“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.”

World Life Looks Sometimes Bigs Stars Dark Darkness Sitting Reach Out Apartment Closeness Sitting Alone Alone In The Dark

Author:Kami Garcia

“Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining.”

Rain Spit Outlaw

Author:Kami Garcia

“There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”

People Way Kind Two Stupid Towns Bounds Stuck Dumb Our Town

Author:Kami Garcia

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

Heart Has Beens Used Suffering Teaching Taught Stronger Used To Be Pain And Suffering Great Expectations Suffering Pain Pain Suffering

Author:Kami Garcia

“Who can judge the judge?”

Judging Beautiful Chaos

Book:Beautiful Chaos

Source: Beautiful Chaos

“And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!”

Looks Saws Imagine Pops Screens Dirty Look Up

Author:Kami Garcia

“What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.”

School Faces Numbers Late Number 2 Amma

Author:Kami Garcia

“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 fix”

Fall Universe Watches Sky One Day Picks Holes

Author:Kami Garcia

“I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.”

Ifs Needs Feels Made Said Able One Thing Get Up Nowhere To Go

Author:Kami Garcia

“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”

Men Moving Stuff Black Voice Stones Add Idiot Collections Links Caves Creepy Voices In My Head

Author:Kami Garcia

About the Author

Born: March 25, 1972
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 300

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