Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 5 of 10

201. “Is it just me? Or does my pillow smell like you?”

— Rebecca Yarros

202. “Less than a minute,” “That’s how long it took for you to fall out of love with me.”

— Rebecca Yarros

203. “We can curl up in our bed and just sleep if that’s what you want, but please stop running from me.”

— Rebecca Yarros

204. “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

205. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

216. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

218. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

221. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

223. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

229. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

231. “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

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

— Rebecca Yarros

233. “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.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

236. “Cool. Calm. Collected.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

241. “Just remember who trained me.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

245. “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.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

247. “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.”

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

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

— Rebecca Yarros

250. “As you get bigger, you’ll see that it’s not how you handle the wins that make you a good man, it’s how you handle the losses.”

— Rebecca Yarros