Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “It’s too late to save Mom, but I’ll be damned if I let Xaden get himself killed.”

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352. “And what would you have done with the knowledge had he shared it?” Tairn asks. “Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”

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353. “Life is varying degrees of pain, but Liam never leaves. He’s there every time I open my eyes, watching, talking me through the torture, holding my sanity together while simultaneously proving it’s already left.”

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354. “I love you so much it hurts.”

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355. “Even the most effective poisons come in pretty packages, and Xaden’s exactly that – as beautiful as he is lethal.”

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356. “Ten years had passed since we’d met on a very different tarmac, and the sight of her still left me speechless.”

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357. “Think about that later,” Tairn commands. “I’m fine, thanks for asking.” “Of course you are. I chose well.”

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358. “You are my Home.”

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359. “Rare abilities, when kept secret, are the most valuable form of currency we possess.”

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360. “I told you I’d feel jealous and then I’d kick his ass. I might have turned, but I’m still a man of my word when it comes to you.”

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361. “And it is always you.”

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362. “I have exactly two shades when it comes to the sun, pale and burned.”

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363. “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.”

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364. “I told you in Aretia – I would rather lose this entire war than live without you.”

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365. “Gods, it feels like my chest is going to crack open when he looks at me like that.”

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366. “Like someone picks up your life and shakes it like a snow globe,” Ella offered. “It seems to take forever for the pieces to settle, and then they’re never in the same place.”

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367. “Tell me something, Violence.” A muscle in his square jaw ticks as he stares down at me, rippling the tawny-brown skin of his stubbled cheek. “Why is it always you?”

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368. “You named a kitten Broccoli?”

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369. “Now cease this line of thinking. It does not serve to make you stronger.”

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370. “Do you really think this is the only room where I’ve felt tormented? Pain isn’t new to me, Jack. She’s an old friend I spend most of my days with, so I don’t mind if she sings to you. Honestly doesn’t even look like the same chamber with how you’ve redecorated. It’s a little monochromatic for me.”

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371. “If I get my hands on you, really, honestly get my hands on you, I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop.”

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372. “Dying today would be inconvenient.”

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373. “I’m not giving up on the man I love!”

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374. “Not distracted. Obsessed.”

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375. “I’ll spend every single day of my life earning back your trust. Xaden to Violet.”

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376. “I lift his hand and press a kiss to the center of his callused palm before putting it back above my heart and holding it there. “This will only ever be yours. You could leave me or even meet Malek, and it still would be. I’ve made my peace with knowing there’s no getting over you.”

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377. “That’s the vision I’m going to cling to: you and me, holding hands, looking over the city.”

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378. “I would like to try an Unnbrish horse,” Andarna muses. “No,” Tairn and I answer simultaneously. Andarna sighs down the bond. “One day I’m going to stop asking nicely.”

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379. “Prince Halden, and whatever favorite guard follows you in case you stub your toe,” I say to Halden.”

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380. “It’s hard to leave behind everything you know, everything you love, because your honor demands it.”

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381. “Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”

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382. “I can handle pain.” I turn toward her. “I live in pain. I practically built a house there and set up a whole economy. I can take whatever they dish out.”

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383. “She really, honestly hasn’t thought about you. At least not since the second she set eyes on me.”

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384. “Ditch the books. Dad can’t save you. He tried. I tried. Decide, Violet. Are you going to die a scribe? Or live as a rider?”

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385. “Only go to war with those you trust implicitly.”

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386. “Howard, tell Scarlett I love her.”

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387. “One does not live a century without being well aware of the space one takes up.”

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388. “I know,” he repeats. “And I could call you Violence like the wingleader.” “You wouldn’t dare.” I narrow my eyes as I move forward, checking where his chest begins to rise. “And you know how much that ass annoys me.” “Annoys you?” Tairn chuckles above me, the sound like a chuffing cat. “Is that what you call it when your heart rate – ” “Don’t even start with me.”

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389. “You are the only person in the world with the power to strip me of every ounce of my control, and the only person I can’t fathom losing that control with.”

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390. “Graham’s tone. “She’s not my ex.” We never got to that point. “And wipe the smirk off your face.” “She’s worse than your ex,” Torres mumbled. “She’s your what-if.”

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391. “Because you’re the only one capable of killing me.”

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392. “Great.” Ridoc rolls his neck. “Down the stairwell to the torture chamber where an untold number of freshly fed dark wielders wait. Good times.”

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393. “He exists, therefore I must, because we are bound. Never alone. Always connected.”

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394. “First thing to learn about us is that we’re careful with our words. And the second? We also lie.”

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395. “But keeping me safe is keeping me from growing, too.”

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396. “Drake, you’re starting to annoy me,” Xaden warns with a sideways glance. “You should stop that.”

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397. “It was hotter than rage, and sharper than fear, and cut deeper than helplessness, all because I couldn’t get to you.”

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398. “Every possible path may require breaking a few laws.” “Dragons do not answer to the laws of humans,” she counters in a tone that reminds me of Tairn. “And as my bonded, as Tairn’s rider, you no longer answer to them, either.”

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399. “I never loved Cat.” Xaden’s head whips up. “Sure, the idea of” – he swallows like he might puke – “Halden putting his hands on you makes me want to put him back into the wall, especially given the fact that he can touch you and I can’t, but knowing he’s been here – ” Xaden puts his hand just beneath my collarbone. “Has me considering murder so there’s no chance of him worming his royal ass back in.”

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400. “At some point, you and I are going to have to start trusting each other, Sorrengail. The rest of our lives depend on it.”

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