Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Gods, I could lose Xaden just like – I can’t. I won’t. I refuse to lose him, for him to lose himself.”

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302. “Only with Jameson did Scarlett allow herself to simply feel. The need, the longing, the pain, the overwhelming ache of love in her heart – she surrendered to it all. Every other part of her life was managed and controlled. Jameson shredded the rules she’d been raised under and brought her into a world of emotion just as vibrant and colorful as he was.”

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

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305. “The problem with mankind is we too often find our souls to be a fair price for power.”

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306. “Aren’t you going to tell me how brilliant that idea was?” Tairn scoffs. “I chose you last year for that brilliance, and now you’d like to be congratulated like it’s something new? How odd.”

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307. “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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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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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311. “You aren’t where I left you, Violence.”

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312. “Because nothing worth having is easy.”

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313. “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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314. “Do you want me to sit out here with you?” His grin deepens. “When you clearly need to rest? No, love, though I appreciate the offer. It’s hard to explain, but I’m just going to take a little time to myself to soak in this view.”

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

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316. “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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317. “Time began and ended with him.”

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “Xaden is mine. My heart, my soul, my everything.”

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321. “You have been the gift of my life,” I tell Tairn.”

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322. “There is no cure for me.” He presses a kiss to my forehead. “That’s why you have to become better than me. There’s only you.”

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323. “You take a step toward this Sorrengail and you’ll be dead before you can even shift your weight,′ Xaden says, his voice dropping lethally. ‘She’s not up for discussion.”

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

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325. “Are you trying to bring me to my knees? Or win the argument?” His hand flexes at my hip as his heated gaze sweeps over me.”

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

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327. “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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328. “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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329. “Less than a minute,” “That’s how long it took for you to fall out of love with me.”

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

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332. “I’m just... his.”

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

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334. “I am as unknown as he is, and you still trust me,” she says. “I will not be another battle you have to fight.”

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

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

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338. “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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339. “Violence, remember it’s only the body that’s fragile. You are unbreakable.”

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340. “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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341. “And not all strength is physical, Violet.”

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

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

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

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345. “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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346. “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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347. “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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348. “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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349. “Just because you gained power today doesn’t mean you lost agency.”

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

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