Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

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

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353. “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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354. “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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355. “You are my home. And if we all die here today, then the knowledge dies with us anyway.”

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356. “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.”

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

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358. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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369. “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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370. “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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371. “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?”

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

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

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

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377. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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383. “Stories can change depending on who tells them.”

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384. “But what I do have is yours, Scarlett. My heart, my name, my very being – it’s all yours. And I promise I will spend every day of my life earning the privilege of your love if you let me.”

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385. “Xaden and I are the first of our signets to live simultaneously since the Great War?”

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386. “Open that door, and I’ll pin the edge of your pants to the wood and leave you there for the next three days.”

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387. “I will not stand for you being devoured by a house cat.”

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388. “I say yes. Let’s take our shot. Let’s go slow or move fast. Let’s do everything we talked about and dream up new stuff. I don’t care where we live or what we do, as long as I get to do it with you. I love you.”

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389. “That’s why you have to become better than me. There’s only you.”

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390. “I’m still not making it easy. But you and I are not easy people. What we build together has to be strong enough to withstand a storm. Or a war. Easy isn’t going to give that to us.”

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391. “Always here but never present.”

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

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

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394. “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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395. “Stay close to the wingleader until we return,” Tairn orders. Surely he meant to say squad leader.”

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396. “It’s been my honor. Liam’s last words to me.”

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397. “You fly next time.”

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398. “It hurts to rearrange everything you think you know. Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”

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399. “I was forever kept in his orbit, allowed to glimpse the damage I knew lingered beneath his surface, but condemned to watch helplessly from afar as he collected scars.”

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400. “We’re all entitled to our mistakes. When you recognize them for what they are, don’t live there. Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”

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