Kami Garcia

“The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.”

“Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.”

“Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.”

“I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.”

“Ladies first.""Why is it men only say that when it's something horrible or dangerous?”

“What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you serious?”

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

“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”

“It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. 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.”

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

“I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.”

“I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew”

“It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.”

“They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.”

“Loneliness is holding the one you loveWhen you know you might never hold him again.Even lost in the darknessMy heart will find youThe soul die at the hand of the one who carries it.If I could find a place to run awayHidden safely, I would be there today.The darkest daylight finds me.”

“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”

“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.”

“There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.”

“Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?”

“Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.”

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

“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.”

“Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.”

“Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.”

“I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were”

“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—”

“Link says if a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it’s jewelry.”

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

“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.”

“It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.”

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

“Nothing in my life is a coincidence.”

“Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.”

“A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.”

“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.”

“Porque la vida sigue. Los pájaros hacen su tarea y las abejas la suya. Las semillas se dispersan y todo vuelve a crecer”

“Aunque moverse duela como una enfermedad. La mirada se detiene en los rostros que murmuran y no puedes oír lo que están diciendo porque en tu cabeza, el estruendo de los gritos es demasiado fuerte. Aun así, deja que te tiren del brazo y que te suban al coche, y sigues. Porque puedes cuando alguien te dice que puedes.”

“I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death.”

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

“Y para siempre resultó durar exactamente cinco minutos más.”

“—¿Estás ahí, Ethan?—Estoy aquí.—Estoy asustada.—Lo sé, L.—No quiero que te pase nada.—No me pasará nada.—¿Y si te pasa?—Voy a esperarte.—¿Incluso si me vuelvo Oscura?—Incluso si te vuelves muy, muy Oscura”

“Ya no estaba escuchando. Estaba pensando en cómo desenterrar una tumba.”

“Es por eso que le ponemos whiskey a su té.”

“Hey Rid?"She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could..."Yeah, Shrinky 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.”

“Había escuchado cada palabra de lo que ella había dicho,, pero yo sólo sabía una cosa.Yo estaba metido hasta el fondo.”

“A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears,Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears,Incubus graves and Caster rivers,The Final Page the End delivers.”

“Ella no me eligió.”