Kami Garcia Quotes

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.