Sydney Leigh > Sydney's Quotes

“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.”
― Kami Garcia

“Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Beautiful Creatures

“I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I was losing her, she wouldn’t listen to me, and I was about to fail my third quiz of the semester. Great.
By the way, can you simplify 7x – 2(4x – 6)?
I knew she could. She was already in Trig.
What does that have to do with anything?
Nothing. But I’m failing this quiz.
She sighed.
A Caster girlfriend had some perks.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“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, Beautiful Creatures

“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“I didn't want to choose one world. I wanted to be part of both. I didn't want to see only one side of the sky. I wanted to see it all.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“All truths are easy to understand once they have been discovered; the point is to discover them.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.
So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to
describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the
same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their
lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?"
"I didn't know you were looking."
Well, I've given the matter some serious thought."
"And what have you come up with?"
"Cookie," I anounced proudly.
Xavier scrunched up his face. "No way."
"You don't like it? What about Bumblebee?"
"Worse."
"Snookie-Wookie?"
"Do you have any cyanide?"
"Well, some of us are just a bit hard to please.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“If you want me . . . you’ve got me.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing."
"You can't! You're the stable one!"
Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest.
"Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy."
"Okay."
"That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Be grateful for small mercies.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo