Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “We can curl up in our bed and just sleep if that’s what you want, but please stop running from me.”

— Rebecca Yarros

152. “First because I trust Violet, and second” – he glances at Ridoc in a dismissive once-over – “it wasn’t a big enough strike.”

— Rebecca Yarros

153. “Everyone assumes she’ll wind up with you, but it’s my last name she ends up wearing on her flight jacket in formation.”

— Rebecca Yarros

154. “The last time a shadow and lightning wielder fought side by side, they managed to drive the venin back into the Barrens for a few hundred years. We’ll figure out how to do it again.”

— Rebecca Yarros

155. “Just because you gained power today doesn’t mean you lost agency.”

— Rebecca Yarros

156. “Xaden points toward the navy dragon and leans forward slightly, like he’s letting us in on a secret as we lock eyes. “To them, you’re just the prey.”

— Rebecca Yarros

157. “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. Never really know if they feel like listening on any given day.”

— Rebecca Yarros

158. “You know it’s not like that for him,” he says in a lecturing tone that reminds me of Xaden. “I’ve never seen him – ” “Let’s not do this.” “ – care like this – ” “No really. Stop.” “ – and that includes Catriona.” My gaze whips toward him. “Who the hell is Catriona?” He winces and presses his lips in a thin line. “What are the chances that you’ll forget I said that between here and Samara?”

— Rebecca Yarros

159. “The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”

— Rebecca Yarros

160. “You may question our knowledge, test our honor or dedication as riders and fliers. Serve up riddles, fake scenarios, chess games for all I care. But if you think I’m going to leave the only woman I’ve ever loved to contract marriage with a woman I do not get along with, then the lack of wisdom is yours, not mine.”

— Rebecca Yarros

161. “They’re a mated pair, Tairn and Sgaeyl. The strongest bonded pair in centuries.”

— Rebecca Yarros

162. “Someone once told me that swearing is a poor excuse for a crap vocabulary. It makes you look low class and uneducated.”

— Rebecca Yarros

163. “That’s why we’ll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone.”

— Rebecca Yarros

164. “Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery.”

— Rebecca Yarros

165. “I’ve loved you since forever. I’ve been in love with you since I was old enough to understand what that meant. No one else ever had a shot of getting close. How could they, when you took my heart with you?”

— Rebecca Yarros

166. “First means nothing. Last means everything.”

— Rebecca Yarros

167. “Our fates are intertwined, for I cannot exist in a world where you do not.”

— Rebecca Yarros

168. “Because you didn’t fall for an ordinary rider. You fell for the leader of a revolution,” he whispers, the sound so soft it barely carries to my ears.”

— Rebecca Yarros

169. “I’m more than willing to let you burn me.”

— Rebecca Yarros

170. “Live up to your nickname and fight this, Violence,′ Xaden whispers against my ear.”

— Rebecca Yarros

171. “Which I didn’t mind, since my bed is too cold without you physically in it and too quiet without you screaming my name.”

— Rebecca Yarros

172. “She slowly lifts her gaze to mine. “What you asked me to.”

— Rebecca Yarros

173. “I’m Theophanie, by the way. Seems only right that you know my name, seeing as I know everything about you, Violet Sorrengail.”

— Rebecca Yarros

174. “I could torch him if you would like,” Tairn offers. “But you do seem attached.”

— Rebecca Yarros

175. “That trick you mentioned? You know, with the fingers?” A slow smile spreads across my face. “Thanks.”

— Rebecca Yarros

176. “Just because your body is built differently than the others doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to keep your seat.”

— Rebecca Yarros

177. “Forget awkward. This felt like coming home.”

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178. “Sometimes the best gift the god of luck can give is his absence. – Zehyllna: Isle of Zihnal by Major Asher Sorrengail.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

181. “Xaden Riorson.” I lift my chin as if I’m answering to my father for my choice. “And he’s mine, even when he’s being a possessive ass.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

185. “Cool. Calm. Collected.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

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190. “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?”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

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192. “Should I get the Wingleader?”

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193. “They choose for reasons they don’t see fit to share with us.” He pushes off his desk. “And not all strength is physical, Violet.”

— Rebecca Yarros

194. “She can’t die, and not just because there’s a chance I won’t survive. She can’t die because I know I can’t live without her even if I do.”

— Rebecca Yarros

195. “We do not eat our allies.”

— Rebecca Yarros

196. “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.”

— Rebecca Yarros

197. “The woman was a meteor, a shooting star capable of granting impossible wishes or destroying life as I knew it.”

— Rebecca Yarros

198. “Second, I don’t control Violet. Never have. Never will.”

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199. “Well, that was graceful.” I jerk my goggles to my forehead. “You fly next time.”

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200. “We live by the Codex – ” I try again. “I live by you.”

— Rebecca Yarros