Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Are we scheming? I do enjoy scheming.” “We’re planning.”

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152. “Do. You. Still. Love. Me?” I enunciate every word and lean right into his space just to prove that I’m not intimidated by him. He cups the back of my neck and pulls me within inches of his face – close enough to kiss. “I could reach the rank of Maven, lead armies of dark wielders against everyone we care for, and watch every vein in my body turn red as I channel all the power in the Continent, and I would still love you. What I did doesn’t change that. I’m not sure anything can.”

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153. “She exists, and I get turned on. I’ve come to accept that particular truth over the last year.”

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154. “His eyes flare, and then he kisses me like I’m the air he’s been missing, like his life depends on it, and I think mine just might.”

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155. “Give me that.” To my surprise, Mira takes the kitten, not the map, cradling it against her chest with one hand. “Her name is Broccoli, not that,” he mutters. She looks at him like he’s sprouted whiskers. “You named a kitten Broccoli?” “No one really wants broccoli, but it’s good for you, so seems fitting to me.”

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156. “How do you say goodbye to the person who shared your soul? Who had been with you through every heartbeat of your life?”

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157. “She makes a good point,” Andarna agrees. “Can you carry a luminary?” “That question insults me.” “Can you carry a luminary while insulted?” she prods. Tairn growls.”

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158. “Play my position, show no fear, and tonight we dine on the souls of our enemies!”

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159. “Don’t need it. I am the weapon.”

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160. “You want to know why you’re still alive? Every day I let you live, I get to convince myself that there’s still a part of me that’s a decent person.”

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161. “I would strongly recommend you rethink your actions.”

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162. “You have to let me all the way in, or all the love in the world won’t hold this together. I am a person who needs information to center myself.”

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163. “No.” I lean my hip against the table where Talia should be sitting. “This is the part where I tell you I’ve already killed you.”

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164. “He didn’t love me, not in the way I deserve to be loved, and no amount of power is worth staying with someone who doesn’t love you.”

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165. “I exist for Tairn, but I live for Xaden.”

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166. “Scratch her eyes out,” Andarna suggests. “Really. The eyes are the softest tissue. Just jab your thumbs in there – ” “Andarna! Use some common sense,” Tairn snaps. “The kneecaps are a much easier target.”

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167. “He’s the horizon, and nothing exists beyond for me.”

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168. “Yeah, well, it cost me you.”

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169. “I’ve always loved watching you on the mat.” “I know.” Xaden rolls his neck. “I’ve used it to my advantage a few times.” Of course he has.”

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170. “Thank you, Liam. Thank you for being my shadow. Thank you for being my friend.”

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171. “As far as I’m concerned, you have the credibility of a drunkard and the integrity of a rat.”

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172. “There hasn’t been a day I haven’t thought of you, missed you, wanted you, loved you.”

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173. “Our mouths collide and we ignite.”

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174. “Do not lecture me on the laws of my kind or you will learn how comfortable I am breaking them.”

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175. “Ooh, he used the wingleader voice.”

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176. “We will feast on their bones, Silver One.”

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177. “You are the culmination of every lightning strike and twist of fate. Do not settle for the love that hones your edges and turns you bitter and cold, Georgia. Not when there are so many other kinds of love waiting for you. And don’t wait like I did, wasting 17 years, because I’d left one bitter foot in my past. We’re all entitled to our mistakes. When you recognize them for what they are, don’t live there. Life is too short to miss the lightning strike, and too long to live it alone.”

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178. “The one that read I meant what I said on the parapet. Even when I’m not with you, there’s only you. That needed no explanation. He’s fighting.”

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179. “My power, my body, my soul – it’s all yours.” He slips a hand down my stomach and lightly strokes my hypersensitive clit. “Take whatever you need.”

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180. “I chose you not as my next, but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”

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181. “Are congratulations or commiserations in order?” Tairn lifts his head. “Shut up.”

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182. “It’s never the same. There are a million variations of any situation. No two people are alike. The tiniest change to any encounter could leave us with very different results. I like to think of the possibilities as a tree. Maybe you start with the one path – ” He tapped the nearest trunk. “But fate throws all the branches out and what seems like a tiny choice, left or right, becomes another and another, until the possibilities of what could have been are endless.”

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183. “My house. My chair. My woman.”

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184. “But the note Xaden left on the stack of books? The one that read I meant what I said on the parapet. Even when I’m not with you, there’s only you. That needed no explanation.”

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185. “I meant what I said on the parapet. Even when I’m not with you, there’s only you.”

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186. “How many times has he read me? How many pre-thoughts has he eavesdropped on? Do I actually love him? Or did he just say what I wanted to hear? Do the things I needed in order to – “Less than a minute,” Xaden whispers as Sgaeyl moves toward him – toward us. “That’s how long it took for you to fall out of love with me.”

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187. “You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”

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188. “The only woman I’d ever loved was here – in a damned war zone – and she was wearing another man’s ring.”

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189. “You are fierce, and smart, and brave, and loyal. None of this is your fault. You’re perfect.”

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190. “A slow smile spreads across Garrick’s face, and a dimple pops in his left cheek. “Careful, Imogen. You sound a little jealous.”

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191. “You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.” “Gravity,” he whispers, a slow, beautiful smile curving his mouth. “The one force we can never escape,” I tease.”

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192. “We hadn’t even kissed, and I fell.”

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193. “You’re such a centenarian. Perhaps my kind will not be such killjoys. Perhaps they will feast as they see fit. Perhaps they will – Ooh! What is that?” “A Mammoth Red-Horned Tortoise and absolutely not! The shell will embed between your teeth, and I will not carry you and a festering tortoise shell – Get back here!” His voice fades as they fly out of range.”

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194. “I want whatever you’re able to give, Xaden.”

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195. “Because nothing worth having is easy.”

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196. “This is what you get, Violet–me. The Good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I’m yours.”

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197. “I love you so much that my heart feels like it beats within your body. I watched what losing Edward did to Constance, and I know that I’m not strong enough to lose you. I won’t survive it.”

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198. “Their dragons are mated,” Mom offers, her smile chilling. “So she’s grown quite close to him out of necessity.” Out of lust and need and the ache in my chest I’m terrified to define, but sure, necessity works.”

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199. “You two totally broke it, didn’t you?” Ridoc asks on the edge of laughter. “Like that armoire no one was supposed to notice getting hauled out of her room during first year?” “The what?”

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200. “And not all strength is physical, Violet.”

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