Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m the villain, even in my own story.”

— Stephanie Garber

2. “Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

3. “Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”

— Stephanie Garber

4. “She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”

— Stephanie Garber

5. “This is my choice, and I choose you, Donatella. I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

6. “Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won’t wake up.”

— Stephanie Garber

7. “Every story has four parts – the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

8. “Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.”

— Stephanie Garber

9. “There’s always a bit of real mixed in with everything.”

— Stephanie Garber

10. “Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”

— Stephanie Garber

11. “Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you’ll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it’s all a game.”

— Stephanie Garber

12. “Not everyone gets a true ending. There are two types of endings because most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, where the situation feels hopeless. But that’s when hope is needed most. only those who persevere can find their true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

13. “He was a mess of gold hair, sea-salt blue eyes, and bitten lips, beautiful in a way only broken things could be.”

— Stephanie Garber

14. “Just because your moral compass is broken doesn’t mean everyone here is unscrupulous.”

— Stephanie Garber

15. “I mean... it’s just one night,” he said softly. “In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don’t like me, and I can pretend that I don’t care. But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

16. “It is not fate, it is simply the future observing that which we crave most. Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”

— Stephanie Garber

17. “It took seven years to get the letter right.”

— Stephanie Garber

18. “She liked the thrill that came with taking risks. She loved the feeling of doing something bold enough to make her future hold its breath.”

— Stephanie Garber

19. “Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them.”

— Stephanie Garber

20. “Do you always focus on what you’re giving up, rather than what you’ll be gaining? Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”

— Stephanie Garber

21. “Wishes were things of wonder that took a certain amount of faith.”

— Stephanie Garber

22. “I know you’re still angry with me, but you’ve always known what I am. I never tried to pretend otherwise, you just let yourself believe I was something I’m not.”

— Stephanie Garber

23. “You can go back to pretending you don’t like me, and I can pretend that I don’t care. But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

24. “She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.”

— Stephanie Garber

25. “Remember, dreams come true can be beautiful, but very quickly turn into nightmares if you don’t wake up.”

— Stephanie Garber

26. “If she were Scarlett, someone would have come to her rescue by now. Julian would have probably flown in on a hot-air balloon, and then sprouted wings to soar down and carry her away. Unfortunately Tella wasn’t the sort of girl people saved – she was the one they left behind... But she was also the sort they underestimated.”

— Stephanie Garber

27. “I’m not trying to win her hand. I’m offering her mine, and everything that comes with it, hoping she’ll take it and decide she wants to keep it.”

— Stephanie Garber

28. “Your future can be whatever you wish. We all have the power to choose our own destiny. But, my sweet, if you play with those cards, you give the Fates pictured inside them the opportunity to shift your path. People use Decks of Destiny, similar to the one you just touched, to predict the future, and once a future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing, and it will fight very hard to bring itself about.”

— Stephanie Garber

29. “She shut her eyes, but it didn’t help. It only made her more aware of Legend’s deep voice as he said, “I’m sorry I left you that night. I shouldn’t have left, I shouldn’t have hurt you. And I shouldn’t have gotten scared and run away when I realized that I was falling in love with you.”

— Stephanie Garber

30. “I’ve never liked the rain; it washes all the magic away.”

— Stephanie Garber

31. “If you can convince yourself it’s true, you can convince anyone.”

— Stephanie Garber

32. “He might have been a liar and villain, but he made both things look very good.”

— Stephanie Garber

33. “Good, because I don’t want to fight you. I just want to love you.” He lifted her a little and pressed another kiss to her lips. “This is my choice, and I choose you, Donatella. I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

34. “She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle.”

— Stephanie Garber

35. “A true queen’s power isn’t in her crown, my little love. It’s here.” Her mother placed a hand over her heart.”

— Stephanie Garber

36. “He mumbled words against her lips, too low for her to hear, but she imagined she got a strong impression of what he wanted to say, as he coaxed her lips apart, letting Scarlett taste the coolness of his tongue and the tips of his teeth as he grazed her lower lip. Every touch created colours she had never seen. Colours as soft as velvet and as sharp as sparks that turned into stars.”

— Stephanie Garber

37. “Caraval is a world built of make-believe, and sometimes it’s difficult for those of us who always live inside it to feel as if anything is real. Most of us won’t admit it, but we all crave the real.”

— Stephanie Garber

38. “A beautiful, ridiculous fantasy.”

— Stephanie Garber

39. “People tossed around the word sorry far too easily, as if it were worth even less than the promise of a copper.”

— Stephanie Garber

40. “That girl gave a performance, meant to make you drop your guard. They say they don’t want us to get too carried away, but that is the point of this game.”

— Stephanie Garber

41. “Our futures are only predictable because as creatures of this world we are predictable.”

— Stephanie Garber

42. “Briefly, Scarlett let herself imagine what it would be like to go to Legend’s private isle, to play the game and win the wish. Freedom. Choices. Wonder. Magic.”

— Stephanie Garber

43. “Tonight he was smiling like a wicked prince, escaped from the stars, ready to spirit her up into the heavens.”

— Stephanie Garber

44. “There is nothing quite so precious as the love of a sister.”

— Stephanie Garber

45. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”

— Stephanie Garber

46. “Most of my life, I’ve romanticized death. I used to love the idea of something being so tremendous that it was worth dying for. But I was wrong. I think the most magnificent things are worth living for.”

— Stephanie Garber

47. “She’d disappeared like a broken star, leaving the world untouched, save for the bits of missing light that no one would ever see again.”

— Stephanie Garber

48. “No one is truly honest. Even if we don’t lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”

— Stephanie Garber

49. “The Prince of Hearts. A symbol of unrequited love and irrevocable mistakes that never ceased to fill Tella with both dread and morbid bewitchment.”

— Stephanie Garber

50. “Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”

— Stephanie Garber