Kami Garcia Quotes

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.