Top 35 Sarah Beth Durst Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “She’d always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be – she was a librarian, after all.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

2. “There’s only one way in and one way out of this world.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

3. “One day, I’m certain a meteor will crash through the atmosphere and land on my apartment... Or maybe, as Mom says, it’s only that I am a little bit disorganized and a little bit paranoid. To which I remind her, it’s not paranoia if the meteors really are out to get you.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

4. “Do you believe in vampires? Not the sparkly variety.”

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5. “You’re a teenage boy. I have boobs. What part of the equation is missing?”

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6. “Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without the dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

7. “I am myself in spite of my memories.” -Aunt Nicki.”

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8. “Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they’re made. It’s not time to regret them; it’s time to live with the consequences.”

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9. “My manly strength will not allow me to choose a less unyielding material,” Matt said. “I have rocks for muscles. You fear my strength.”

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10. “All her life, Sophie had been taught that books are precious. Each one holds people and worlds. Each one is a piece of someone’s heart and mind that they chose to share. They were shared dreams.”

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11. “Point is, I invented me... maybe as a reaction to them... definitely as a reaction to them. I am myself in spite of my memories.”

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12. “The only fearless people I’ve met were frightfully stupid.”

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13. “She’d also liked being within a wall of books. There, she’d felt as close to safe as she could remember.”

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14. “Always talk, talk, talk with you people,” Pearl said. “You know, sometimes violence really is the answer.”

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15. “They didn’t understand that evil could grow if planted in a field of banal cruelty.”

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16. “Whether he loved her or not didn’t change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.”

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17. “Don’t confuse mercy for forgiveness.”

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18. “Fear can be your friend. It tells you when to run and when to hide. The trick is that after you’ve run and hid, you have to tell your fear thank you very much, you’re fine now, come back later.”

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19. “Daleina would not be kept from her fate. She’d run toward it, arms open, and kick fate in the face.”

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20. “It seems the more we try to fix the world, the more we break it.”

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21. “You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you.”

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22. “She was our friend and our enemy, Chancellor Xanon,” Naelin said. “We will mourn our friend who was killed by our enemy. Surely you understand that a life is more complex than a label. We can love who she was while we hate what she’s done.”

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23. “The beanstalk felt like sandpaper”.”

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24. “Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.”

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25. “I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They’re ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.”

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26. “I loved him. And he thought that meant that he had no responsibilities.”

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27. “I do not want leaving me to be easy.”

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28. “I’m allowed to have new dreams.”

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29. “Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you,” Tamra informed the kehok.”

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30. “Together, we’ll set the world on fire.”

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31. “Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life.”

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32. “Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone’s hope.”

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33. “I’ve lived life without you, and I couldn’t bear it. Not when I had the strength to save you.”

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34. “I would have lied to you until we died. Sometimes honesty is cruelty, and love is lies.”

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35. “There was something about how it made your heart race, skin tingle, and breath speed. I feel alive, she thought.”

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