Top 500 Rebecca Yarros Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “You going to hand her over to Jenkins?” Torres asked, leaning against the wall next to me. “Every instinct tells me not to,” I said quietly. “But at least he’d treat her as just another detail.” “Just another mission.” Torres nodded. “Solid point.” Jenkins wouldn’t spare a single glance for her eyes, her smile, her curves. He’d be 100 percent focused. “She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”

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352. “Clearly it was common sense that attracted you to the heir.” Sarcasm drips from Tairn’s tone.”

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353. “Anxiety ties a pretty little bow around my throat and tugs.”

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354. “Scribes freak me out. Quiet little know-it-alls, acting like they can make or break someone by writing something down.”

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355. “She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”

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356. “Xaden is mine. My heart, my soul, my everything. He channeled from the earth to save me, and I’ll scour the world until I find a way to save him right back.”

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357. “I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.”

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358. “Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”

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359. “Whatever is going through that beautiful mind, I’m here for it.”

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360. “Andarna shows no sign of trouble. I am inconvenienced, annoyed, and cut off from my source of power, strength, and my mate’s thoughts, but I am still Tairneanach, son of Murtcuideam and Fiaclanfuil, descended from – ” “All right, yes, I get it. You are superior in all ways.” I interrupt him before he can get through his whole pompous lineage like I don’t have it memorized by now.”

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361. “No one really wants broccoli, but it’s good for you, so seems fitting to me.”

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362. “There is no stronger bond than that between two mated dragons. It goes beyond the depth of human love or adoration to a primal, undeniable requirement for proximity. One cannot survive without the other.”

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363. “There are worse things than dying.”

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364. “My loyalty is to Violet first above everything, everyone else,” Xaden says.”

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365. “You were in my dream.”

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366. “Xaden comes first for me.” It comes out so self-sacrificial that I half expected my mother to appear and smack me upside the back of my head. “Just so we’re clear. But I will never stop being the woman he fell in love with in order to morph into whatever doormat you think he requires.”

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367. “We could really use Dain right about now,” I whisper. “I could live the rest of my life without ever hearing you say that again,” Xaden replies.”

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368. “Is this what it feels like?” he whispered so quietly that I leaned down. “What it feels like?” I asked. “Having a dad?” He tilted his head slightly.”

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

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

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371. “Just remember who trained me.”

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

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

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

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375. “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.”

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

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377. “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.”

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

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

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380. “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.”

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381. “Killing you wouldn’t be any trouble, Violence. It’s leaving you alive that seems to cause the majority of my trouble.”

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382. “They’re accommodations for me. I’ve seen your memories. I’m not about to have you sticking daggers into my leg to climb up. Now let’s go.”

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383. “Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”

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384. “I love you, Scarlett, and it’s not the kind of love that fades with distance or time. I’m yours and have been since the first time I looked into your eyes. I’ll be yours no matter how much time passes before I see your eyes again. Always.”

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385. “As complicated as our connection is, it’s also undeniably simple. He’s the horizon, and nothing exists beyond for me.”

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386. “I don’t deserve you.′ His arm curls around my hips and he tugs me closer. ‘But I am going to keep you all the same.”

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387. “You have to find your center again, Violet. I can’t do it for you.” He holds my gaze, letting his words sink in, before adding, “You are a creature of logic and facts, and everything you know got turned upside down and shaken. You’ll never know how truly sorry I am for that. But you can’t just sit there and hope. You want it to change, then you have too figure it out, just like Gauntlet. You’re the only one who can.”

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388. “I’m not quite sure how I even did it. Is the thought sharing an inntinnsic thing? Or a bond thing? It’s happened more than once with us.” A corner of his mouth rises, and his grip relaxes.”

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389. “We do not accept those who do not adjust their sails in a storm.”

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390. “She’d only known him for three weeks, and yet she couldn’t remember what the world had felt like before. There were now two eras in her life – before Jameson, and now.”

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391. “If we’re not back by nightfall, burn the place to the ground.”

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392. “You’ll have to keep secrets again,” Andarna warns. “Only the ones that protect Xaden.”

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393. “Let me rephrase,” Xaden says slowly. “Everyone get out now. And close the door.”

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394. “But Xaden isn’t in power. He is power.”

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395. “Hard to access like we need Aaric and a midnight mission?” Sawyer asks, and Ridoc translates. “Hard to access like we need Dain to betray his father.” Which is highly unlikely.”

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396. “Let me know when you’re done brooding and we’ll see how big my next strike is.”

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397. “It only takes one desperate generation to change history – even erase it.”

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398. “Justice is not always merciful.”

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399. “There’s no magic here.” He tugs me against him. “No power. No lure. No taunting reminder that I can save everyone if I just reach for it and take what’s offered. It’s only... peace.”

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400. “Truth always differs depending on who’s telling the story, and in complicated situations, there are countless variations.”

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