Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Me holding back from you has been purely for your sake, not mine, trust me. I want you from the second I wake until the moment I fall asleep. I dream about you.”

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252. “And in the seconds it took for him to reach me, I realized it didn’t matter which version of him I was getting. I was inextricably linked to every single one of them.”

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253. “I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”

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254. “We need more Darcys in the world,” I answered with a little shrug. “Says the woman with a thing for Hemingway.”

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255. “You aren’t where I left you, Violence.”

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256. “I think I’m just as loyal to my sister whether I’ve had a letter from her or not,′ I counter. ‘There are bonds that can’t be broken.”

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257. “You have to accept what I already have,” Xaden says to me. “The man you love no longer fully belongs to himself.”

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258. “Time began and ended with him.”

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259. “You fight and you thrash because this fated, deep-rooted thing you called love refuses to go down with a single shot. That would be far too merciful. Real love has to be choked out, held under the water until it stops kicking. That’s the only way to kill it.”

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260. “Grief is a powerful, illogical emotion, and some memories are safer left boarded up and undisturbed.”

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261. “She lost a dragon,” Mira shouts. “Not a boyfriend. It’s not a breakup.” Her gaze swings to Xaden. “No offense.” The emptiness threatens to overwhelm me again, but Tairn inundates the bond with a deluge of defiance and indignation. “Focus on now, on him if you have to.” I still have both of them: Tairn and Xaden. “None taken.” Xaden folds his arms but doesn’t look away. “We’re past the breakup stage.”

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262. “General Aetos’s quarters. Don’t worry, Dain’s agreed to help me find it.” Xaden cracks his neck. “‘Don’t worry’ and ‘Dain’ do not belong in the same sentence.”

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263. “Seriously?” “He was going to touch you.” The glacial rage in his eyes has mine widening. “Right, because that’s the mature response.”

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264. “He looks at me, really looks, and it feels like he sees entirely too much.”

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265. “I’m just... his.”

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266. “That’s what Nate was to me. As far away as a lifetime and as close as yesterday, as near as twelve inches.”

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267. “My gaze snaps to Xaden, and my chest tightens. So. Freaking. Beautiful.”

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268. “Violet is the only choice I’ve made for myself.”

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269. “Home. Gods, he tastes like home.”

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270. “He was a reader? This guy just kept getting hotter.”

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271. “You’re the only place I feel completely like me anymore.”

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272. “I would have done the same thing you did because I’m just as reckless for you as you are for me.”

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273. “Xaden slides his hands beneath my thighs, then lifts me so we’re level as he lays expert claim to every line and recess of my mouth like this is the only time he’ll get. Like kissing me is more vital than his next breath.”

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274. “He kisses me like I’m the answer to every question. Like everything we’ve been and will be hinges on this moment. And maybe it does.”

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275. “If no one’s trying to kill you here, then that means I’m doing my job over there. That’s how I choose to look at it, how I have to look at it.”

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276. “You’re kidding!” he signs excitedly. “There’s a prophecy?” He turns toward me. “Violet, you’re a –.”

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277. “Pick your tail up off the ground right now. Where do you think we are? The Vale?”

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278. “Seems like a waste of time to chase someone who doesn’t want you when there are plenty of people who do.”

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279. “Thank you for helping us,” Xaden signs. Jesinia nods, then disappears into the rows of bookshelves. “You can sign,” I whisper at him. “You speak Tyrrish,” he replies. “One is far less common than the other.”

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280. “You are my home. And if we all die here today, then the knowledge dies with us anyway.”

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281. “Even when I’m not with you, there’s only you.”

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282. “You love me,” he whispers. “Stop reminding me. I thought we agreed not to fight tonight.” I snuggle in deeper, his warmth lulling me into that sweet middle space between wakefulness and oblivion. “Maybe you’re not the one I’m reminding.”

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283. “Well, this is awkward,” Xaden calls out. And every head in the courtyard turns our direction.”

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284. “Come back to me,” I demand as he moves away. “Only ever you.”

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285. “It should be against the Codex to look that good and be so ruthless.”

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286. “I am yours and you are mine, and there’s no law or rule in this world or the next that will change that.”

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287. “Think about what it could be like if we became more than a possibility.”

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288. “You are every fantasy I’ll ever have.”

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289. “I don’t miss the woman I was, the one who didn’t know her strength.”

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290. “Dogs talk all the time, you just have to speak their language.”

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291. “This goes against the Codex!” Dain.”

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292. “You can still love someone after you let them go.”

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293. “Do not speak to her as if death is a possibility,” Tairn snaps, slamming his own shields around us both, an impenetrable wall of black stone, blocking out Xaden and Sgaeyl.”

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294. “Civil is overrated,” Andarna notes, flexing her claws in the grass. “I’ve never tasted gryphon – ” “We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures. “Find another snack.”

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295. “Maintaining control is nearly impossible around Violet.”

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296. “Are you accusing me of abusing my power where this cadet is concerned, Colonel Kaori?” Varrish moves to step toward us, but my bag is in the way. “Oh, no.” Kaori shakes his head. “I think you abuse your power in general.”

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297. “With trembling hands, I unfold the paper – and smile. Xaden Riorson wrote me a letter.”

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298. “I think I started falling for you that night in the tree when I watched you with the marked ones, but I began tumbling the day you gave me Tairn’s saddle. You’ll give some self-serving excuse, but the truth is you’re kinder than you want people to know. Maybe kinder than you know. – Recovered Correspondence of Cadet Violet Sorrengail to His Grace, Lieutenant Xaden Riorson, Sixteenth Duke of Tyrrendor.”

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299. “People die. It’s going to happen over and over again. It’s the nature of what happens here. What makes you a rider is what you do after people die.”

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300. “We’d proved to be the magnets that fate could never quit playing with.”

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