Top 500 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

53. “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

54. “I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.”

— Stephanie Garber

55. “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

56. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

58. “You were supposed to be my true love. You were supposed to want me, not him. You were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.”

— Stephanie Garber

59. “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

60. “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

61. “A tormented scream pierced the night like a blade. The sky bled, and darkness fell instead of stars, erasing lights across the Magnificent North.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

63. “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

64. “I know you are afraid of love, I know it’s hurt you in the past and you see it as a weapon. You think love is a disease, but you’ve become the disease. Your fear of love is destroying you and everyone you touch. And it doesn’t make you powerful, it makes the world around you tragic.”

— Stephanie Garber

65. “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

66. “The world outside the windows was a wonderland of white and ice and pale blue winter birds with wings that turned to frosted lilac when they flew.”

— Stephanie Garber

67. “He seemed uncharacteristically nervous as he reached toward her cheek. He slowly took an errant pink strand of hair between his fingers and tucked it behind her ear. He was so careful, his fingers didn’t even brush her skin, but he looked as if he wanted to.”

— Stephanie Garber

68. “In the fairy tales, sixteen was always the age when girls either learned they had magical powers, were truly princesses in disguise, or were cursed and needed a handsome prince to help them break the dark enchantment.”

— Stephanie Garber

69. “Locks of blue hair fell across his forehead, but they didn’t hide his eyes. They were wide, broken star-bright, and full of something that looked a lot like hope.”

— Stephanie Garber

70. “And what do people say? Tella asked. Just that he murdered his last fiancee. But they also say he’s very handsome, she tacked on, as if that made up for murder.”

— Stephanie Garber

71. “But now it was crystal clear – he was the one who did the breaking, because he didn’t know how to love.”

— Stephanie Garber

72. “But Evangeline’s heart was already broken. And she understood the risks she was taking. She knew the rules for visiting Fated churches: Always promise less than you can give, for Fates always take more. Do not make bargains with more than one Fate. And, above all, never fall in love with a Fate.”

— Stephanie Garber

73. “I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

74. “There were three rules about Fates that Evangeline had been taught as a child. The most important of those rules was to never ever fall in love with a Fate.”

— Stephanie Garber

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

78. “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

79. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

82. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

83. “If you think I’m jealous because someone else got to stab you, then you’re right.”

— Stephanie Garber

84. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

86. “And he loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her so much he’d rewritten history.”

— Stephanie Garber

87. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

88. “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

89. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

91. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

93. “I wish our story could have had another ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

94. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

95. “But Scarlett had decided after Caraval that she would not let fear rule her.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

98. “You don’t want to be the hero, you want the happy ending- that’s why you came to me. If you do this, that will never happen. Heroes don’t get happy endings. They give them to other people. Is that what you really want?”

— Stephanie Garber

99. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

100. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber