12 Quotes by Kami Garcia and Margret Stohl

Maybe magic wasn’t the magic thing, when you grew up with it

I wondered if that oneshade of blue really kept the carpenter bees from nesting. I wondered if those bees really believed it was the sky.It’s crazy what you see if you aren’t really looking.

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locksand the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper.She lived.

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

She shook the voices out of her head, but the words left a shadow, a phantom image that never entirely disappeared.

Hunger is such an incredible inconvenience.

The girl was falling. I was falling. I had to hold on, but I couldn't. If I let go, something terrible would happen to her. But that's the thing. I couldn't let go. I couldn't lose her. It was like I was in lover with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love BEFORE first sight. Which seemed crazy because she was just a girl in a dream.

There is a point. I don't know what is it, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt--it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing. LIVING.

If I fell asleep, those thoughts would twist themselves into rivers of blood as real as the mud in my sheets when I first met Lena. I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.