Kami Garcia Quotes

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.