Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The Dark One didn’t cut it in the first place,” Tairn responds. “Stop calling him that.”

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452. “You’re all cadets now.” Xaden’s voice carries out over the courtyard, stronger than the others. “Take a look at your squad. These are the only people guaranteed by Codex not to kill you. But just because they can’t end your life doesn’t mean others won’t. You want a dragon? Earn one.”

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453. “If you ever want to have words about why I severed that alliance, then you come for me. Violet is beyond your reach. If you so much as look her direction with anything but the utmost kindness and respect, I’ll kill you without a second thought and let Syrena take her place as your heir. Do you understand me?” His voice has that icy softness that sends chills up my spine.”

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454. “I’d much rather have you under me on the mat than spare time.”

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455. “Irid,” Andarna whispers. “Yes. I remember now. That is what my kind are called. I am an irid scorpiontail.”

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456. “That is just a sparkly hall of mirrors, and staring too long through the lens of how other people perceive you is bound to start distorting how you see yourself.”

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457. “Did you ever once stop to think that sometimes you can start out on the right side of a war and end up on the wrong one?”

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458. “I love you more than this city. Do not die defending it.”

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459. “First love is irreplaceable.”

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460. “It’s an official blessing of your legal, binding marriage,” Brennan whispers, stunned, then quickly rolls the parchment. “By the head priestess of Dunne’s temple.” “To Xaden?” Gravity bends, warping everything I thought I knew into whatever this reality is. Brennan nods. My eyes flare. We’re married?”

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461. “We’ve always been the better-looking species,” Tairn.”

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462. “If he hurts me, then he’s not him anymore.”

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463. “I lower my weapons as Xaden strides toward me from the center of the room, the hilts of the two swords he keeps strapped to his back peeking above his shoulders. He’s in thick winter flight leathers, devoid of any markings but his second lieutenant rank, and speckled with tiny dots of water that tell me he’s been out in the snow.”

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464. “His gaze swings toward mine, and his brow furrows. “It’s hard to live with a man who was executed on the same day as my mother.”

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465. “You’re mine, and I love you, too.”

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466. “This is the last time we’re discussing this,” Hudson warned. “I’m not breaking up with Allie. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever, if I get a say. Letting her go was the worst mistake I’ve ever made in my life, and I’ll be damned if your inability to pull your head out of your ass is going to cost me the only chance I have with her.”

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467. “Whatever you feel is natural. Allow yourself to feel it but then let it go.”

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468. “Shadow spreads like a ripple on a lake, devouring the field in the fury of an onyx storm.”

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469. “I wish I could keep you safe as well. Our lives have turned out so very differently than we planned. I wish you were with me, that we had taken this journey together. You have been my compass all these years, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to find my way without you, but as I promised this morning as we said our goodbyes, I will do my best. I carry you with me in my heart, always.”

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470. “You do not have the right to burn what is mine.”

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471. “No one stays friends forever, Mira. Eventually those closest to us become our enemies in some way, even if it’s through well-intentioned love or apathy, or if we live long enough to become their villains.”

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472. “Was everyone’s dragon a curmudgeon? Or just mine?”

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473. “For the first time in months, I feel whole. A smile spreads across my face. “Andarna.”

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474. “You do some of your best work on that throne.”

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475. “I’m proud you’re mine.” Andarna’s voice wavers, the blinks of her eyes becoming slower. “Even if I need a bath.”

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476. “Dragons do not answer to the whims of men.”

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477. “I can kill him if you prefer,” Xaden offers, raising his scarred brow. “And give him another opportunity to fake his own death?”

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478. “Love of my life.”

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479. “I bite back my smile. “I’m never scared of him.” Xaden’s eyes find mine, and my pulse skips. “And he’s not my boyfriend.”

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480. “It’s too late to save Mom, but I’ll be damned if I let Xaden get himself killed.”

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481. “And what would you have done with the knowledge had he shared it?” Tairn asks. “Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”

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482. “Life is varying degrees of pain, but Liam never leaves. He’s there every time I open my eyes, watching, talking me through the torture, holding my sanity together while simultaneously proving it’s already left.”

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483. “I love you so much it hurts.”

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484. “Even the most effective poisons come in pretty packages, and Xaden’s exactly that – as beautiful as he is lethal.”

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485. “Ten years had passed since we’d met on a very different tarmac, and the sight of her still left me speechless.”

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486. “Think about that later,” Tairn commands. “I’m fine, thanks for asking.” “Of course you are. I chose well.”

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487. “You are my Home.”

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488. “Rare abilities, when kept secret, are the most valuable form of currency we possess.”

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489. “I told you I’d feel jealous and then I’d kick his ass. I might have turned, but I’m still a man of my word when it comes to you.”

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490. “And it is always you.”

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491. “I have exactly two shades when it comes to the sun, pale and burned.”

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492. “Now, Andarna doesn’t eat our allies – it’s a whole thing her elders are trying to teach her – but you know how adolescents are.”

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493. “I told you in Aretia – I would rather lose this entire war than live without you.”

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494. “Gods, it feels like my chest is going to crack open when he looks at me like that.”

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495. “Like someone picks up your life and shakes it like a snow globe,” Ella offered. “It seems to take forever for the pieces to settle, and then they’re never in the same place.”

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496. “Tell me something, Violence.” A muscle in his square jaw ticks as he stares down at me, rippling the tawny-brown skin of his stubbled cheek. “Why is it always you?”

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497. “You named a kitten Broccoli?”

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498. “Now cease this line of thinking. It does not serve to make you stronger.”

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499. “Do you really think this is the only room where I’ve felt tormented? Pain isn’t new to me, Jack. She’s an old friend I spend most of my days with, so I don’t mind if she sings to you. Honestly doesn’t even look like the same chamber with how you’ve redecorated. It’s a little monochromatic for me.”

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500. “If I get my hands on you, really, honestly get my hands on you, I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop.”

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