Kami Garcia Quotes

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.

There is something in omens.

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Merlin was very definitely supposed to be an old man guiding the young Arthur to the throne.

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all of that.

The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.

I'm always looking for signs.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.