Quotes From "Beautiful Creatures" By Kami Garcia

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

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 Kami Garcia

Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence."" I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake."" That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not. Margaret Stohl

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star. 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 could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else. Unknown

It had been a long, dull day at Jackson without Hurrican Lena, and I was starting to wonder how I ever got through eight periods without all the trouble she caused me. Without all the trouble she made me want to cause myself. Unknown

The weather had changed, all right. Gatlin had never seen a storm like this. And she probably didn't even know it was raining. Unknown

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms. Margaret Stohl

My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry. 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

Seventeen moons, seventeen years, Eyes where Dark or Light appears, Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know. Kami Garcia

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. Kami Garcia

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

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. Kami Garcia

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. Kami Garcia

Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down. Kami Garcia

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget. Kami Garcia

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing. Kami Garcia

Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that? . Kami Garcia

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. Kami Garcia

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different. Kami Garcia

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. Kami Garcia

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic. Kami Garcia