Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What makes something real Tella?′ Dante hooked a finger into the rope around her waist. ‘Does seeing something make it real?’ He tugged on the rope and pulled her closer, until all she could see was his face. ‘Or does hearing something make it real?’ His voice turned a little rough. ‘What about feeling something, is that enough to make it real?”

— Stephanie Garber

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

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53. “It’s better this way, sister. There’s more to life than staying safe...”

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54. “Scarlett nodded, afraid saying the wrong thing might push him away. With Julian it wasn’t about protection – she just wanted to be with him. The boy who’d saved her from drowning in more ways than one.”

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55. “His mouth was crashing against hers. He tasted like exquisite nightmares and stolen dreams, like the wings of fallen angels, and bottles of fresh moonlight.”

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56. “Scarlett’s nana used to say the world of Caraval was Master Legend’s playground. No words were spoken that he didn’t hear. Not even a whisper could escape his ears, no shadow went unseen by his eyes. No one ever saw Legend – or if they did, they didn’t know it was him – but Legend saw all during Caraval.”

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57. “Gold shimmered no matter what, but few people could make darkness glitter the way he did.”

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58. “I used to be scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren’t supposed to exist, it’s infinitely valuable.”

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59. “Jacks no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.”

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60. “What happens beyond this gate may frighten or excite you, but don’t let any of it trick you. We will try to convince you it’s real, but all of it is a performance. A world built of make-believe. So while we want you to get swept away, be careful of being swept too far away. Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won’t wake up.”

— Stephanie Garber

61. “It was the sort of kiss she could have lived in. The sort of kiss worth dying for.”

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62. “He looked like a freshly woken storm, or a beautiful nightmare come to life so he could personally haunt her.”

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63. “Wishes were things of wonder that took a certain amount of faith, and Julian seemed the type to trust only what he saw.”

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64. “Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don’t get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all.”

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65. “It’s just a game, Crimson. Those people were only playing. If you want to win you have to be a little bit ruthless. Nice is not what Caraval is about.” “I don’t believe you,” Scarlett said. “Just because your moral compass is broken doesn’t mean everyone here is unscrupulous.”

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66. “He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.”

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67. “You’re the starlight to his darkness, and if you feel the same about him, you should give him another chance.”

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68. “Fear was a poison that people mistook as protection. Making choices to stay safe could be just as treacherous.”

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69. “The air tasted like wonder. Like candied butterfly wings caught in sugared spiderwebs, and drunken peaches coated in luck.”

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70. “I know Caraval can be magical and romantic and wonderful, but the spells it casts aren’t easily shaken off, and half the time I don’t even think people realise they have been bewitched.”

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71. “But for all its sparkle, once Tella looked closer she thought it seemed more like glitter pretending to be stardust.”

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72. “Tella was the sister who would destroy the world if anything happened to Scarlett, but Scarlett’s world would be destroyed if anything happened to Tella.”

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73. “Tella was the most important person in the world to Scarlett, but it always broke Scarlett to know her sister did not feel the same way.”

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74. “The secret to staying in love is having someone who will catch you when you start to fall out of it’ and I promise to always catch you.”

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75. “Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.”

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76. “Scarlett was not fond of fate. She liked to believe if she were good, good things would happen. Fate left her feeling powerless, and hopeless, and with an overall feeling of lessness. To her, fate seemed like a larger, omnipotent version of her father, stealing her choices and controlling her life without any regard for her feelings. Fate meant that nothing she did mattered.”

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77. “Fate had already decided no one she loved would ever love her back.”

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78. “The boy who’d saved her from drowning in more ways than one.”

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79. “Dante ran his tongue over his lips, like a tiger that had just bested a kitten.”

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80. “He held her so tightly it hurt, but this pain she didn’t mind. She’d let him crush her, let him break her, just as long as he never let her go. This was what she wanted, and she refused to believe that he didn’t want it, too.”

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81. “He smelled of magic and heartbreak, and something about the combination made her think that despite what he claimed, he wanted to be her hero.”

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82. “She loved the feeling of doing something bold enough to make her future hold its breath while she closed her eyes and reveled in the sensation that she’d made a choice with the power to alter the course of her life.”

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83. “Glad to know you’re thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”

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84. “As a girl, Scarlett had been drawn to the idea of Legend’s magic. But Tella always wanted to hear about the master of Caraval’s darker side. A part of Scarlett couldn’t deny there was something seductive about winning the heart of someone who’d vowed to never love again.”

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85. “Evangeline Fox always believed she’d find herself inside of a fairytale one day.”

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86. “When you truly care about someone, aren’t you supposed to be honest, even if it means you might lose that person?”

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87. “She tried to smile then. She was finally the hero. All it had cost her was everything.”

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88. “Before, Scarlett had always felt as if she didn’t have choices, but now she was starting to realize that she did. She just needed to be bold enough to make the difficult ones.”

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89. “As beguiling as the church of Legend was, Tella imagined it had Legend all wrong. Caraval might have been extreme in all of its splendor, but she didn’t think he was.”

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90. “Every touch created colors she had never seen. Colors as soft as velvet and as sharp as sparks that turned into stars.”

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91. “She used to think love was like a house. Once it was built, a person got to live in it forever. But now she wondered if love was more like a war with new foes constantly appearing and battles creeping up.”

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92. “Scarlett pressed down on the tip of the blade. A single drop of ruby blood welled. Carefully Julian brought her finger to his mouth, and when his soft lips touched her skin the entire world shattered into a million shards of colored glass.”

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93. “Every story needs a villain, but the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”

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94. “This was why love was so dangerous. Love turn the whole world into a garden, so beguiling it was easy to forget that rose petals were as ephemeral as feelings, eventually they would wilt and die, leaving nothing but the thorns.”

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95. “This game brings out the most selfish parts of many people, but it had the opposite effect on you. Watching you restored my belief that Caraval could be what I believe it used to be – and that my brother could be good once again.”

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96. “But I don’t want to feel differently. I want to feel love in its every form. I used to be scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren’t supposed to exist, it’s infinitely valuable. I can’t imagine my life without it.”

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97. “When she loved, she did it as fiercely as she lived.”

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98. “But Scarlett had already been broken. For years her father tore her down. Over and over, she had let him. She’d allowed him to make her feel worthless and powerless. But she was neither of those things. She was done allowing her fear to make her weaker, to eat away at the meat on her bones until she could do nothing but whimper and watch.”

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99. “I’d give you the world if I could. The moon, stars, and all the suns in the universe. Anything for you, my heart.”

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100. “Love is messy. It’s not easily controlled. But that’s what makes it so powerful. It’s unbridled passion. It’s caring about someone else’s life more than you care about your own.”

— Stephanie Garber