Hey, Ethan."" Yeah?"" Remember the Twinkle 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.

— Kami Garcia

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more than a shark could help to be a shark, but if she could..." Yeah, Shrink Dink?"" You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

— Kami Garcia

History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn’t have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena.

— Kami Garcia

I am the Film. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me.

— Kami Garcia

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.

— Kami Garcia

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

— Kami Garcia

If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor was bathed in a creeping shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped up into the walls.......

— Kami Garcia

I guess the sky in real life isn’t actually perfect. Maybe that’s what makes it so perfect.

— Kami Garcia

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

— Kami Garcia

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

— Kami Garcia