Kami Garcia Quotes

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

There's always something about home that's special.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

library is a beautiful old thing

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.