Kami Garcia Quotes

History is totally unpredictable.

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Control is an illusion.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

Things don't always look as they seem.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

Appearances are deceptive.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.