Top 500 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “She especially felt the women, judging her freshly mussed curls and her nearly backless gown as they whispered to one another words that Tella didn’t need to hear to imagine. Few things were quite so brutal as critical ladies.”

— Stephanie Garber

452. “But the problem with happily ever after is that it’s more of an idea than a reality. A dream that lives on after a storyteller is finished. But real stories never finish.”

— Stephanie Garber

453. “She believed that people could change; she believed that everyone’s life was like a story with an ending that was not yet written, and therefore everyone’s future held infinite possibilities.”

— Stephanie Garber

454. “If you think my moral compass is damaged, his doesn’t exist.”

— Stephanie Garber

455. “For anyone who has ever hoped for a second chance.”

— Stephanie Garber

456. “What is magic, if not something that makes you believe and feel and wonder?”

— Stephanie Garber

457. “I know that stories often take on lives of their own. I already feel as if the horror I went through is turning into a fairytale, but I am nothing special, and this is not a fairytale.”

— Stephanie Garber

458. “It looked as if it was taking all his strength not to reach out and graze her fingers with his. As if one brush of their skin might set off a riot of sparks or blow out every light in the hall.”

— Stephanie Garber

459. “Life is not a kind storyteller. And I’m not meant to be a savior.”

— Stephanie Garber

460. “And the story curse decided to stop watching. It was time to leave these two alone and let them have their ever after. Other stories were brewing in the Magnificent North.”

— Stephanie Garber

461. “People rarely looked each other in the eye for prolonged periods of time. There was almost something more intimate about it than touching. When Dante looked in Tella’s eyes he wasn’t watching the rest of the world. He wasn’t looking out for himself. He was risking part of his person to focus solely on her.”

— Stephanie Garber

462. “There is nothing of equal value” – Jacks.”

— Stephanie Garber

463. “Is your pride really so wounded that you would kill me over a kiss?”

— Stephanie Garber

464. “Love is the one weakness I’ve never been able to defeat. Humans try to make it sound as if it’s a gift. But once they find love, it never lasts, it only destroys.”

— Stephanie Garber

465. “Scarlett had never wanted time to stop before, to slip into a crawl so slow that one heartbeat would take a year, a breath would take a lifetime, and a touch could last an eternity.”

— Stephanie Garber

466. “You look quite dashing, my love.” She pressed a kiss to his cheek as she reached him. But Julian turned quickly enough that her lips found his instead. His arm snaked around her waist, holding her tight and kissing her back until her cheeks were redder than a candy cane. “You scoundrel,” she murmured. “It’s not my fault you look so pretty when you blush.”

— Stephanie Garber

467. “If anything, he held her tighter.”

— Stephanie Garber

468. “I am a weapon,” Tella muttered.”

— Stephanie Garber

469. “If two people really loved each other and they were willing to fight for that love, if they were willing to go to war for each other, day after day, then it didn’t matter what they were up against. Love would always win as long as they never stopped fighting for it.”

— Stephanie Garber

470. “He would have set the world on fire and then let it all burn just to keep holding her like this.”

— Stephanie Garber

471. “She’d thought that she didn’t want a savior, but maybe a part of her needed one. Or perhaps she just needed him.”

— Stephanie Garber

472. “Todas las historias tienen potencial para infinitos finales.”

— Stephanie Garber

473. “He gazed at her as if he wanted her to lose herself somewhere in his eyes, so that he could be the one to find her.”

— Stephanie Garber

474. “This is a very bad idea,” Jacks murmured. “I would have thought you liked bad ideas.” “Only when they’re mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

475. “Always promise less than you can give, for Fates always take more.”

— Stephanie Garber

476. “He didn’t believe they could kiss. He believed in doomed love and unhappily ever after.”

— Stephanie Garber

477. “I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”

— Stephanie Garber

478. “The only magic in the room was that of touch and heartbeats and Jacks. And for a moment it was perfect. He felt like hers and she felt as if she was his.”

— Stephanie Garber

479. “Then very soft from LaLa: “I hope you brought enough apples.”

— Stephanie Garber

480. “Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or a performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find to magic in this world.”

— Stephanie Garber

481. “You could never look awful,′ he said faintly.”

— Stephanie Garber

482. “Evangeline’s hope had always burned brighter than her fear.”

— Stephanie Garber

483. “May all those in this room who seek true love find it, and may those who stand in its way be cursed!”

— Stephanie Garber

484. “Julian flashed a wicked smile. “I know because I’ve played before.”

— Stephanie Garber

485. “I might have outgrown toys, but I hope never to outgrow joy and dressing up and giving gifts.”

— Stephanie Garber

486. “It’s not a real kiss if there isn’t any tongue.”

— Stephanie Garber

487. “If Jacks had more regard for his own life, he might have been frightened. But Jacks wasn’t feeling much these days unless the feelings involved Evangeline, and he was trying his best to avoid those at the moment.”

— Stephanie Garber

488. “Her heart still hurt, as if it had been broken and only jagged bits remained. She put a hand on it, as if to keep more pieces from breaking off.”

— Stephanie Garber

489. “Mourning was important, but it couldn’t go on forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

490. “I know my attempt to save Jacks could end in a fiery explosion, but I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”

— Stephanie Garber

491. “I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it’s a reason to fight for those things.”

— Stephanie Garber

492. “But maybe she needed to feel this pain to get over it.”

— Stephanie Garber

493. “But just because he was all she had didn’t mean that she needed to give him all the power.”

— Stephanie Garber

494. “Humans do a lot of stupid things when they’re scared.”

— Stephanie Garber

495. “People need holidays. They need happiness, they need joy, and they need reasons to give and to love.”

— Stephanie Garber

496. “He watched her the way you weren’t supposed to watch someone when they knew that you were looking – bold and unabashed and utterly inappropriate.”

— Stephanie Garber

497. “Falling never scared her as much as failing to find out the truth.”

— Stephanie Garber

498. “You can’t be in love with someone you just met.”

— Stephanie Garber

499. “For anyone who has ever feared they won’t find true love.”

— Stephanie Garber

500. “But maybe the reason for the warning about falling in love with Fates wasn’t because loving a Fate could never work, but because it was so much harder. Nearly impossible.”

— Stephanie Garber