Top 90 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’re free to make your own choices, but you’re not free from the consequences of that choice.”

— Rebecca Yarros

2. “Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.”

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3. “I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.”

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4. “There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”

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5. “The hardest battles – the most meaningful ones – they’re fought against ourselves. Against our own fears, our own weaknesses, our own shattered expectations of what we thought this life would be.”

— Rebecca Yarros

6. “I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My life started the moment I breathed into you, and I can’t think of a better use for my breath than to use it to say, ‘I love you, for the rest of our lives.”

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7. “But I will not run. I wouldn’t be standing here if I’d quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.”

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8. “One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”

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9. “Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”

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10. “Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”

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11. “There is no me without you.”

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12. “Sometimes the only way to keep what you need is to let go of what you want.”

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13. “You’re making us look bad. Stop it.”

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14. “When are you going to understand that’s where life begins? Right at the edge of that fear.”

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15. “Dragons always know.”

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16. “I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I’ll do it. You gave me your heart, and I’m keeping it.”

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17. “I don’t deserve you. But I’m going to keep you all the same.”

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18. “You’re so busy taking care of everyone else, you can’t see that someone needs to take care of you. So tell me what you need, and I’ll be that for you.”

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19. “Coming in last is better than coming in dead.”

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20. “I see the way he looks at her, like she’s the reason the seasons change and the sun rises until they’re a hundred and one years old.”

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21. “I’d be worthy of her, not because she asked me to – she’d never ask me to change – but because she deserved the best man to hold her, understand her, love her.”

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22. “Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”

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23. “There is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten.”

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24. “And strength of courage is more important than physical strength.”

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25. “I love you, and it’s not the kind of love that wavers. It’s the scary kind that doesn’t fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, dark pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much part of me as my own heart, and it doesn’t beat without you.”

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26. “I’m so wildly in love with you that I can’t imagine what my life would even look like without you in it. And I probably shouldn’t have said that, but if we’re doing this, then we’re starting from a place of complete honesty.”

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27. “I was here for as long as Ella would let me stay. Because somewhere between letter number one and letter number twenty-four, I’d fallen in love with her.”

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28. “The right way isn’t the only way.”

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29. “And when others are quick to stand in front of me, Xaden always stands at my side, trusting me to hold my own.”

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30. “This is not our end. My heart will always remain with you no matter where we are. Time and distance are only inconveniences to a love like ours. Whether it’s days, months, or even years, I will be waiting. WE will be waiting.”

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31. “There’s no one on this earth who can love you as well as I can, and I wish it was enough.”

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32. “Nothing in my life prepared me for how much I would love you.”

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33. “You can’t make me fall for you and then die.”

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34. “I’ve seen love burn someone to the ground, and I’ve seen it make sense of the ridiculous. I won’t settle for less than that kind of fire.”

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35. “I choose him. I choose him over living in Peyton’s shadow. I choose him over Will because I finally understand what it is to want someone so badly that you’re willing to risk what we’re going through this very minute. I choose him because he makes me feel alive, and amazing, and me. He makes me remember who I am. And I choose him over you because he can say my name without making me remember that you’d rather I’d died instead of Peyton.”

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36. “Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs – on the probabilities.”

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37. “We can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us.”

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38. “I choose you. And if I have to let you lose me so you can save yourself, then I’ll hold on enough for the both of us. That’s how much I love you.”

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39. “The fire you have within you is impossible to kill. The first breath you take when you’re free of all this, it will come roaring back. That’s what is so impossibly beautiful about you.”

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40. “I will not die today.”

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41. “Without the potential for disaster, would we ever really know what we have?”

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42. “I’ve waited my entire life to love you, Morgan. Everything that came before was just to prepare me for your arrival, to teach me how to love you.”

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43. “Tragedy has a way of breaking gentle things and soldering the shattered pieces together in ways we can’t control. Some, it remakes into stronger, more resilient creatures. In others, the pieces fuse before they heal, leaving only razor-sharp edges. I can offer you no other explanation or excuse for the way she’s cut you over the years.”

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44. “I am completely, utterly obsessed with Xaden.”

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45. “You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate.”

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46. “You’re it for me, and it didn’t matter if we were together or not. You’d always be it. You push me away, and I’ll still show up here looking for you because you’re all I want.”

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47. “Sometimes I wonder if I just enjoy the beginnings, and that’s why I never seem to move past them. The beginnings are what make everything romantic.”

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48. “You and I are inevitable, and you know it. We always have been. Gasoline and fire, remember?”

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49. “You never considered that it was you I couldn’t stay away from?”

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50. “Grief, by its very nature, is designed to suck the life out of us because we are so willing to join our dead. It’s supposed to be this hard to figure out to do next, but it’s that ‘next’ that makes us the living, and not our dead.”

— Rebecca Yarros