Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Turns out, falling in love with someone only brings that blissful high all the poets talk about if they love you back. And if they keep secrets that jeopardize everyone and everything you hold dear? Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery. That’s what this ache in my chest is: misery.”

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452. “His allure is a warning not to get too close, and I am definitely too close.”

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453. “I’m done sleeping in a bed that doesn’t have you in it.” His thumb strokes along my pulse.”

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454. “Cadet Sorrengail, and whomever she acted with, committed the crime last night, and as of this morning, every single one of you and our king signed their pardons.” I nod. “Brilliant, reckless woman.” His gaze heats, and I fight a smile.”

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455. “You going to hand her over to Jenkins?” Torres asked, leaning against the wall next to me. “Every instinct tells me not to,” I said quietly. “But at least he’d treat her as just another detail.” “Just another mission.” Torres nodded. “Solid point.” Jenkins wouldn’t spare a single glance for her eyes, her smile, her curves. He’d be 100 percent focused. “She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”

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456. “It’s hard to love a second home as much as the first...”

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457. “Clearly it was common sense that attracted you to the heir.” Sarcasm drips from Tairn’s tone.”

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458. “Anxiety ties a pretty little bow around my throat and tugs.”

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459. “Scribes freak me out. Quiet little know-it-alls, acting like they can make or break someone by writing something down.”

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460. “She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”

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461. “Xaden is mine. My heart, my soul, my everything. He channeled from the earth to save me, and I’ll scour the world until I find a way to save him right back.”

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462. “There’s a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes it’s no longer safe with the person you trusted.”

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463. “I’m just as reckless for you as you are for me.”

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464. “I choose you. I choose whatever risk this brings. I see every part of you, Xaden: The good. The bad. The unforgivable. That’s what you promised, and that’s what I want – all of you. I can handle myself, even against you if I have to.”

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465. “But if we let fear kill whatever this is between us, then we don’t deserve it.”

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466. “Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”

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467. “Whatever is going through that beautiful mind, I’m here for it.”

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468. “You can’t make me fall for you and then die. None of this is worth it without you.”

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469. “Andarna shows no sign of trouble. I am inconvenienced, annoyed, and cut off from my source of power, strength, and my mate’s thoughts, but I am still Tairneanach, son of Murtcuideam and Fiaclanfuil, descended from – ” “All right, yes, I get it. You are superior in all ways.” I interrupt him before he can get through his whole pompous lineage like I don’t have it memorized by now.”

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470. “No one really wants broccoli, but it’s good for you, so seems fitting to me.”

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471. “There is no stronger bond than that between two mated dragons. It goes beyond the depth of human love or adoration to a primal, undeniable requirement for proximity. One cannot survive without the other.”

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472. “There are worse things than dying.”

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473. “My loyalty is to Violet first above everything, everyone else,” Xaden says.”

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474. “You were in my dream.”

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475. “Cool. Calm. Collected.”

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476. “Look at how beautiful you are, Violet. Coming for me on Tyrrendors Thorne.”

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477. “There’s not a lot of room for creativity when you’re focused on breathing.”

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478. “Xaden comes first for me.” It comes out so self-sacrificial that I half expected my mother to appear and smack me upside the back of my head. “Just so we’re clear. But I will never stop being the woman he fell in love with in order to morph into whatever doormat you think he requires.”

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479. “We could really use Dain right about now,” I whisper. “I could live the rest of my life without ever hearing you say that again,” Xaden replies.”

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480. “Is this what it feels like?” he whispered so quietly that I leaned down. “What it feels like?” I asked. “Having a dad?” He tilted his head slightly.”

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481. “I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.”

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482. “Lifetime. Anything less is unacceptable.” Xaden slides his hand to the back of my neck. “And her full name for the papers is Violet Sorrengail. Two Rs.”

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483. “Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”

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484. “Should I get the wingleader?” Tairn flat-out laughs in my head.”

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485. “That question insults me.” “Can you carry a luminary while insulted?” she prods.”

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486. “Just remember who trained me.”

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487. “I never lied when I said I can’t live without you, Violence.′ He backs away slowly, his lips curving in a sad smile. ‘And defenseless women have never been my type, remember?”

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488. “I changed my mind.” He slides two fingers inside me. “That’s my favorite sound.”

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489. “Izzy, you’re the one good, untainted thing in my life. You are the only peace I know.”

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490. “But even harder than taking a life is doing nothing while one is extinguished beside you.”

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491. “He leans in, his whisper barely reaching my ears. “But in case it’s not, every time you think of reaching for her face, I want you to remember one word.” “And what is that?” Dain seethes. “Athebyne.” Xaden pulls back, and the pure menace in his expression sends a shiver along my skin.”

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492. “That honor belongs to Violet, if she wants it.” “She does,” I reply instantly.”

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493. “Don’t look for me. It’s yours now. He’s gone.”

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494. “You still don’t trust me, and that’s all right. I told you I’m not in this for a battle. I’m winning the damned war.”

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495. “Never apologize for doing what you need to.”

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496. “And our last words were in anger.”

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497. “Get your leathers. We have dragons to ride.”

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498. “I love you. The world does not exist for me beyond you.”

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499. “If I’d been there, beyond the wards, I would have drained the very earth to its core to keep you safe.”

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500. “To which I will remind you that not a single dragon chose her. You were selected by two.”

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