I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.
Kami GarciaHe could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.
Kami GarciaSummer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.
Kami GarciaThe poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.
Kami GarciaKnowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
Kami Garcia