Beautiful Creatures Quotes
"There were only two kinds of people in our town. 'The stupid and the stuck,' my father had affectionately classified our neighbors."
"Gatlin wasn’t a complicated place; Gatlin was Gatlin."
"There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere."
"There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave."
"Lemons and rosemary. I could smell her, even then."
"Sixteen moons, sixteen years, Sixteen of your deepest fears."
"I was sixteen years old, I was falling in love with a girl who didn’t exist, and I was slowly losing my mind."
"I stared up at my plaster ceiling, painted the color of the sky to keep the carpenter bees from nesting."
"In Gatlin, the first day of school never really changes."
"I read all the time. Books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while."
"Every house in Gatlin was full of secrets, just like the South itself."
"Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees."
"I’d been having the dream for months now. Even though I couldn’t remember all of it, the part I remembered was always the same."
"I’d been on the team since eighth grade, when I grew six inches in one summer and ended up at least a head taller than everyone else in my class."
"We have a wonderful new addition to our strings section. A viola. She’s just moved into town."
"I had to turn on the headlights to even drive out of the parking lot. I couldn’t see more than three feet in front of the car."
"I was so aware of Lena sitting next to me, just inches away in the passenger seat."
"The only sound was the storm, and the wheels rolling and spraying through the lake the road had become."
"The closer I got, the easier it was to see that everything was falling apart."
"I could hear her voice in my head. At least I thought I could."
"I knew what I’d be facing the next day, but none of that mattered to me."
"The whole Lena thing was really getting to me."
"The bad omen wasn’t just a hearse. It was a girl."
"I saw something shining from the crack in the seat. A silver button."
"I knew what I’d done. I had taken sides."
"She had gone home. Even if home was Ravenwood, and she had gone home to Gatlin’s own Boo Radley."
"Ravenwood Manor loomed in front of me. It rose up on the hill like a dare."
"But somebody had to do something. A whole school couldn’t just take down one person like that."
"The unexplained was sort of a given in the South; every town has a haunted house."
"I could barely make out the tops of the trees beyond the wall."
"I could hear her in my head, as if she was standing next to me whispering in my ear."
"I saw a strangely perfect, smooth, yellow lemon."
"I looked at her, through the tall grass."
"I prepared myself for the sight of Macon Ravenwood."
"I was scared when the police came to the door the night my mom died."
"It was a long, dreamless sleep, the first I’d had in a long time."
"I was scared when I was a kid and Amma went dark."
"I pushed back my chair and ran down the hallway after her."
"Sometimes I wish I could act like everyone else, but I can’t change who I am. I’ve tried."
"I just wish I could be myself and still have friends who noticed whether I’m in school or not."
"It’s not like I really care if they like me. I just don’t want them to automatically hate me."
"I know they’re idiots. Of course they’re idiots. All that dyed blond hair and those stupid little matching metallic bags."
"You know what’s stupid? I have books under my bed."
"You don’t know what that means, Ethan. You don’t know anything. I may not even be here after that."
"I’m trying to make sure Lena was okay. A window broke in the classroom right behind her, and she was bleeding."
"This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family."
"My family is different from other families. Trust me, you can’t handle it."
"Whatever it is, you can tell me. I know what it’s like to have a crazy family."
"The people in my family, and me, we have powers. We can do things that regular people can’t do."
"I may not have known what she was, but I had known there was something about her."
"Your house makes rooms disappear, my house makes people disappear."
"I’m a freak, you’re a freak. Your house makes rooms disappear, my house makes people disappear."
"I felt like I had sucked the air out of a giant balloon, like my brain wasn’t getting enough oxygen."
"Guys don’t talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks."
"The moments bleed together, no span to time."
"I don’t care about any of that. I like you just the way you are."
"I don’t care. You don’t jump off a cliff when you’ve already fallen off a bigger one."
"I’m still trying to figure it all out, but sometimes it seems like I never will."
"She’s always minded me till she met your niece."
"I don’t need you remindin’ me about my responsibilities."
"I can’t get a read tonight. It’s murky."
"That boy doesn’t have power any more than I have a tail."
"You’re wrong, Amarie. Ask the Greats. Consult the bones. There is no other explanation. It had to be Ethan. Ravenwood is protected. A Dark Caster could never circumvent that sort of protection, not without some powerful form of help."
"You’ve lost your mind. He doesn’t have any kind of power. I raised that child. Don’t you think I’d know it?"
"Graveyard Bone. Take it. The Greats want you to have it. Protects spirit from spirit, and dead from dead."
"I might as well be a monkey as a man, for all the good it does me at Greenbrier."
"Don’t think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"Blood of my blood, protection is thine."
"What’s wrong, Lena Beana? Why are you so sad?"
"I’m guessing that’s a fancy Caster name for a healer."
"Every day was terrifying, and every day was perfect."
"She was powerful and she was beautiful."
"You have that girl with you? Bring her in here so we can get a look at her."
"I don’t know why you want to come over for Thanksgiving anyway. It’s pretty boring."
"I didn’t want to be the one to tell you this, child."
"Your mamma’s alive as sure as I’m standin’ here."
"You’re not too old for me to wash your mouth out with a bar a soap."
"I’ll tell you what your mamma would say. She would cry."
"I’m itchin’ ta have some a that white cake."
"Your eyes, child. They’re… they’ve changed."
"I’m going to go Dark, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it."
"It’s a book that belonged to Genevieve."
"I can’t believe you are participatin’ in this, Mamma."
"Just 'cause a book don't have a title, don't mean it don't have a name. That right there is The Book a Moons."
"Though I walk through the valley a the shadow a death, I fear no evil."
"The gift of Palimpsestry is a great honor, and a greater burden."
"Great Mother, I never thought I would see it. The Book of Moons. Be careful. That book is as old as time, maybe older."
"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
"At some point, you’d waded so far in you had no choice but to paddle through the middle, if you had any chance of making it to the other side."
"There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn’t even a threat anymore."
"Everything means somethin’. Don’t try to change somethin’ wild into somethin’ tame."
"This is about the disciplinary meeting, isn’t it? Don’t let them—"
"Old things are better than new things, because they’ve got stories in them, Ethan."
"What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you."
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
"Sixteen moons, sixteen years, Sound of thunder in your ears, Sixteen miles before she nears, Sixteen seeks what sixteen fears…"
"I’ve fought what I was destined to be. I fight it every night of my life."
"Doesn’t change what you are. That’s not a choice you get to make."
"I’m just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can’t give you the answers."