Kami Garcia Quotes

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

Don't be drab.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.

No one is any one thing.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

We're all complex creatures, and we shouldn't have to pick one thing to be passionate about. Life isn't black and white, so we shouldn't live that way.

We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.