Top 60 Sarah Beth Durst Quotes (2026 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. “You’re a teenage boy. I have boobs. What part of the equation is missing?”

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

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6. “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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7. “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

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

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9. “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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10. “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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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. “Don’t confuse mercy for forgiveness.”

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

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

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

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19. “The beanstalk felt like sandpaper”.”

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.”

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

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29. “I’m allowed to have new dreams.”

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

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

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

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

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

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36. “What should I do? Should I welcome them? Or should I hide? Is a sentient spider plant a plus or a minus for a business?” “You are always a plus,” Kiela told him firmly.”

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37. “I’m just an honest person, but if I’m truly being honest, sometimes blunt is just mean. Honesty can be an excuse for bullying.”

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38. “She remembered the way it looked at sunset, with the island winged cats perched on the rooftops, and the way it smelled at dawn of fresh-baked bread. In spring, wildflowers sprouted everywhere-the roofs, the cliffs, the fields. In winter, snow blanketed everything in thick white fluff.”

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39. “Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them.”

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40. “She’d met people like that, always convinced everything was the fault of someone else. They never looked at their own choices.”

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41. “Questions are the heart of a functioning society.” She wondered if she’d read that somewhere or had just invented it. She rather liked it.”

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42. “Sleep on the boat?” Caz sounded appalled. “With fish under us?” “You really have a thing about fish,” she said. “I had no idea.” “You hear stories,” he said darkly.”

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43. “I read and I forget anything else exists. And I don’t forgive anyone who isn’t careful with books. I hate people who tear out pages, who bend corners, who break the spines.”

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44. “Find someone who will be there for you, her father had once told her. Someone who will laugh with you through the years. Someone who makes you happy day-to-day.”

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45. “Of course knowledge is dangerous. But ignorance is even more dangerous.”

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46. “This is a ridiculous conversation that I regret beginning. You are not unlikable. I chose to be your assistant, out of all the librarians in the Great Library. I am a very picky plant with impeccable taste.”

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47. “I’m just too sensitive.” Yarrow grunted. “I don’t know what that means.” “I’m hurt when I shouldn’t be.” “If you’re hurt, you’re hurt. It doesn’t matter if anyone else thinks you don’t have a good enough reason. Pain doesn’t require approval.”

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48. “Because knowledge is power, and the powerful want – wanted – to keep it all to themselves.”

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49. “But I do know books – and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually.”

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50. “There’s no such thing as a weed,” Cas said. “That’s a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as ‘unwanted’ and some as ‘valuable,’ as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can’t gave its own intrinsic worth.”

— Sarah Beth Durst