--- title: "3 Aunt Quotes By Kami Garcia" description: "3 Aunt quotes by Kami Garcia. Plus more from Kami Garcia and more Aunt sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/kami-garcia-543_aunt_aunt-caroline-opened-the-door-wiping-her_1475974.png" --- > [“Aunt Caroline opened the door, wiping her hands on her G.R.I.T.S. apron. Girls Raised in the South.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/aunt-caroline-opened-the-door-wiping-her-hands-on-her-g-r-i-t-s-apron/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/kami-garcia-543_aunt_aunt-caroline-opened-the-door-wiping-her_1475974.png) > [“Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/aunt-prue-was-holding-one-of-the-squirrels-in-her-hand-while-it/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba2/kami-garcia-543_aunt_aunt-prue-was-holding-one-of-the-squirre_1890647.png) > [I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/i-grabbed-aunt-prue-s-tiny-hand-her-fingers-as-small-as-bare-twigs-in/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b65/kami-garcia-543_aunt_i-grabbed-aunt-prue-s-tiny-hand-her-fing_2413080.jpg) ## Other authors on Aunt ## More by Kami Garcia > [High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/high-school-sucked-it-was-a-universal-truth-and-whoever-said-these/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“Why are you fighting like this? You're acting like Reece and Ridley.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/why-are-you-fighting-like-this-you-re-acting-like-reece-and-ridley/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/lena-smoothed-her-hair-crazy-weather-you-have-down-here/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“But you couldn't unpop a bubble.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/but-you-couldn-t-unpop-a-bubble/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“Dead man, listen well. The Great Keep is not like the Otherworld. The Great Keep has many names. To the Norse it is Valhalla,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/dead-man-listen-well-the-great-keep-is-not-like-the-otherworld-the/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/nothin-wrong-with-havin-a-cat-in-the-house-they-can-see-what-most/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“Loneliness is holding the one you love / When you know you might never hold him again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/loneliness-is-holding-the-one-you-love-when-you-know-you-might-never/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/i-sat-up-in-bed-my-t-shirt-was-soaking-wet-my-pillow-was-wet-my-hair/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“Knowing 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/knowing-you-don-t-have-much-time-left-changes-things-you-get-kind-of/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/the-toes-of-our-ratty-black-sneakers-touched/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“So You’re Powerless Now, But You’re Going Out with One of the X-Men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/so-you-re-powerless-now-but-you-re-going-out-with-one-of-the-x-men/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“I wasn't into girls like Emily. She was pretty, but that was it. And looking at her didn't make up for having to listen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/i-wasn-t-into-girls-like-emily-she-was-pretty-but-that-was-it-and/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/ethan-thought-he-was-doing-the-right-thing-he-knew-it-was-crazy-and/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [Nothing in my life is a coincidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/nothing-in-my-life-is-a-coincidence/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) > [“Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/every-day-was-like-a-day-out-of-someone-else-s-life-nothing-had-ever/) [Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aunt/kami-garcia/#itemlist", "name": "3 Aunt Quotes By Kami Garcia", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Aunt Caroline opened the door, wiping her hands on her G.R.I.T.S. apron. 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