Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

60. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

67. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

71. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

75. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

78. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

79. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

82. “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

83. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

84. “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

85. “Once upon a time, a girl who believed in fairytales stole the heart of a prince who had sworn to never love.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

90. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

91. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

94. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

96. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

98. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber