Katie McGarry Quotes

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see
the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”

— Katie McGarry

If you're scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don't walk away from us because you think it would be better for me. Here's the reality, Echo: I want to be by your side. If you want to go to the mall stark naked so you can show the world your scars, then let me hold your hand. If you want to see your mom, then tell me that too. I may not always understand, but damn, baby, I'll try.

— Katie McGarry

I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we're not together."
"And what is that?" prodded the stout man.
"He's a superhero who saves people in danger, because he saved me and my brother from dying in a fire a couple of years ago. Noah is better than Batman." The crowd chuckled.
"I love you, too, lil'bro.

— Katie McGarry

“That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.”

— Katie McGarry

Screw what Mom and Dad think. Screw the rest of the town. Screw perfection. This girl is mine.

— Katie McGarry

“Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains.”

— Katie McGarry

It's our rain, Beth.

— Katie McGarry

“I wish I could sleep with you," Echo's sexy-ashell
drowsy voice mumbled through the phone.
"Say the word, baby, and I'll rock your
world.”

— Katie McGarry

“Noah drew me closer to him. It's okay. I've got you.”

— Katie McGarry

“Are you wowed?" Her pause is debilitating.
"Yes," she says a little breathlessly. "I'm wowed.”

— Katie McGarry

Noah and I-we're brothers despite not sharing blood, and Echo became my sister the day she put a smile on his face. They're my family and I'm going to fight to keep what's mine.

— Katie McGarry

“Echo bent over the table to make her second shot. Her beautiful breasts were right there for me to see, but i wanted to do more than observe, i wanted to ...
"You should put your tongue back in your mouth. You 'll get all cotton-mouthed if it dries out."
"I can't help it you 're hot." I loved it when she dished it out.”

— Katie McGarry

“Noah?
A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom.”

— Katie McGarry

“My eyes met Tyler's and a smile tugged at his lips. Tyler remembered me. I waved at him and, to continue the miracle, he waved back.”

— Katie McGarry

“This is your family ... If you learn to love us then you will forever have our love in return.”

— Katie McGarry

“Echo, how could you think I would leave you? How can you doubt how I feel?”

— Katie McGarry

“Silences seem longer in darkness. I think it's because it's harder to lie when the lights are off. There's a rawness that only belongs to the night and the truth can't help but be set free.”

— Katie McGarry

“Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air”

— Katie McGarry

“I walk with my head high, shoulders squared. I'm better than them. No matter the whispers and taunts they throw out. Fuck them. Fuck them all.”

— Katie McGarry

“I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.”

— Katie McGarry

“My father was missing some very important meeting, and my stepmother from Oz? I'm sure she was missing her brain.”

— Katie McGarry

“Echo's my solid, my base, my foundation. She has no idea that the single fear that keeps me up at night is knowing one day she'll discover she doesn't need me like I need her.”

— Katie McGarry

This doesn't mean anything," Haley whispers as she reaches up and pulls at the Velcro of my glove.
"Yes, it does." I bring my arms to my sides and the instant the gloves fall to the floor, my hands latch on to that beautiful body. "Tell me, Haley. Please tell me it does because this means something to me.

— Katie McGarry

“Hand off my ass or I'll rip off your balls.”

— Katie McGarry

“Food shouldn't be half-bad. It should be all good.”

— Katie McGarry

“So, Noah smoked pot. I drank beer. We made a beautiful couple.”

— Katie McGarry

“They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward.”

— Katie McGarry

“I held on to his warm hand simply because i wanted to.”

— Katie McGarry

“I've finally found what I've been searching for ... a family.”

— Katie McGarry

“No apologies. I could kiss you right now. Judging by the look in his chocolate-brown eyes, he meant it.”

— Katie McGarry

“If I continued to disregard breakup rules, I might as well go all the way. I pushed her curls behind her shoulder and let my fingers linger longer than needed so I could enjoy the silky feel.”

— Katie McGarry

A burning heat warmed my blood.
It was a slow kiss at first-all I meant it to be, but then Echo touched me. Her hands on my face, in my hair. And then she angled her body to mine. Warmth, enticing pressure on all the right parts, and Echo's lips on mine-fireworks.
She became my world.

— Katie McGarry

“With a sigh, I moved my lips once more against hers before shifting and pulling her body to my side. "I'm in love with you."
Echo settled her head in the crook of my arm as her fingertips lazily touched my face. "I know. I love you, too.”

— Katie McGarry

“"Rachel ... you need help."
I laugh and it's the same bitter laugh I remember him giving when we met so many weeks ago. "So do you."
"I love you." Isaiah says it so simply that my heart soars and sinks at the same time.
"I love you," I whisper. "Did you ever think that loving someone could hurt so bad?"
Isaiah shakes his head and stares out the window.
"What's going to happen to us?" I ask. Because I don't know how the two of us can continue forward. Isaiah refuses to let me in. It's sort of cruel. He's brought me close with his stories of his childhood and with his words of love, but he can't relinquish control. I refuse to be with someone who won't treat me as an equal.”

— Katie McGarry

We crossed beyond friends the night we spent in your room and you know that. Fuck, Haley, there isn't a moment that we haven't been into each other and I'm not the only one in the room aware of it.

— Katie McGarry

“I inhale his dark scent, and I have the overwhelming feeling of coming home”

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Not when everything inside me is so twisted it hurts to breathe

— Katie McGarry

“Sup, man," said Rico Vega, joining me in the back of Spanish class. "'Sup," I answered. "How can they let you take Spanish when that's what you speak half the damn time?" "Why they let a bunch of gueros take English? You gringos gotta be stupid if you ain't got it down in eighteen years.”

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“A heat wave crashes into my body and I tug at the collar of my winter coat. I could take this thing off and probably still sweat. The memories of his mouth moving against mine and how his hands pressed into my body flood my brain. I lick my lips in anticipation. I crave for him to kiss me again, but ... "Are you going to call me after?"
A small grin plays on his lips. "You aren't going to cut me any slack, are you?"
It's like he's begging me to tease him, and without thought, I slide back to the braver girl at the bar. "Is that a problem?"
He shakes his head. "Not from you."”

— Katie McGarry

“Her shoulders never shook. No tears streamed down her face. The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see - the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived.”

— Katie McGarry

“Her words slice me open. I'm not that bad. No, I'm not kittens and bunnies, but I'm not that bad.”

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“I lower my chin to smell the shirt again. I want to wear this forever, without washing it. His dark, spicy aroma consumes the material. I peek at him from the corner of my eye, wondering if he spots me catching a whiff or if he knows how addicting his scent is to girls.”

— Katie McGarry

“Why Lila glaring at you, hombre? " asked Rico. "Though I wouldn't mind a hot piece of culo like that acknowledging my existence." Rico puckered his lips, sending a mock kiss in Lila's direction. I laughed when she flipped her golden hair over her shoulder and stared at the dry-erase board.”

— Katie McGarry

“There's a power I only feel when I'm with Isaiah. A boldness I've never possessed in my life. Never in a million years would I have imagined I'd be the girl who'd say she was falling fast for a boy before he did. Never in a million years did I think I'd be lying in bed with a totally ripped guy that has his shirt off. But Isaiah has this effect on me. He makes me feel stronger than I really am.”

— Katie McGarry

“Echo slides off the hood, and her hips have this easy sway as she walks to the back passenger door. Damn, she's gorgeous-red, curly hair flowing over her shoulders, a pair of cut-offs hugging her ass and a blue spaghetti-strap tank dipped low enough to show cleavage.
My fingers twitch with the need to touch. I'm going to have to pull some major groveling to gain forgiveness. If I were smart, I'd find a way to say sorry without opening my mouth. Never fails that half the time I try to apologize, it comes out wrong.”

— Katie McGarry

“Nunca grito. Ni una sola vez en 18 anos me han visto perder los estribos. Soy el extrano, si, pero soy el unico estable. El impasible. El unico que nunca pide nada a nadie; incluso de mi mismo”

— Katie McGarry

“"How many girls do you kiss against cars?" asked Echo in a clipped manner.
My mouth gaped, but no sound came out. Rico and his two cousins cackled at my expression. I snapped it shut when Echo winked. Damn, I loved it when she dished it back.”

— Katie McGarry

“He lifts his hand and hesitates when I shudder. His lips press together in a line. He will pay for touching you.”

— Katie McGarry

Echo's breathing hitches when I slide my thumb along a smaller scar. She likes that spot. I've memorized it. A centimeter below the crook of her elbow. Her skin is sensitive there, and when I kiss it, Echo normally falls apart and nearly shatters.
I gently press my lips behind her ear, and Echo nudges closer to me. "Why, Echo?"
"Because."
I nip at her earlobe, and she shivers. "Because why?"
Her shoulder moves under my body. A half shrug maybe. "It makes me feel better."
Fuck that. "Why?"
A kiss on her neck. A long one. A lingering one. God damn, Echo tastes so good. Her skin is soft and tempting. But I want answers.
"Because sometimes I want to blend in."
I raise my head and stare straight into her eyes, spotting the plain honesty. What she doesn't understand is that she could never blend in. Blazing red hair. Bright emerald eyes. The most beautiful girl in the world. She'd turn heads regardless of a sweater.

— Katie McGarry

“"Noah?" I gasped, trying to understand through the screams in my head.
"I've got you. I swear to God, I've got you," said Noah. "Stay with me, Echo."
I wanted to. I wanted to stay with him, but the shouting and screams and glass breaking in my mind grew louder. "Make it stop."
He tightened his grip on my arms. "Fight, Echo! You've got to f*cking fight. Come on, baby. You're safe."”

— Katie McGarry