Top 500 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “She tried to smile then. She was finally the hero. All it had cost her was everything.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

103. “I kept coming back to you, not because of Legend, or the game. But because you’re so real and alive and fearless and daring and beautiful and if what’s between us isn’t real, then I don’t know what is.”

— Stephanie Garber

104. “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

105. “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

106. “Where were you?” she asked. “I was killing innocent maidens and kicking puppies.” “Jacks, that’s not funny.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

108. “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

109. “Stop flashing your fangs. I’m the only one who gets to bite her.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

111. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

113. “You are my choice. You are my love. You are mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

114. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

115. “Julian had a voice meant for casting spells. But tonight he’d have broken them instead. He sounded like salt without the sea. Rough, alone, and lost.”

— Stephanie Garber

116. “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

117. “Fate is only an idea, but I think by believing in it we turn it into something more.”

— Stephanie Garber

118. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

119. “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

120. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

121. “I thought it was the opposite,” Scarlett said. “The past is set but the future is changeable?” “No. The past is only mostly set, and the future is harder to change than you would think.”

— Stephanie Garber

122. “Don’t be like me and settle for the ease of an almost-ending, when you could have the true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

123. “I think there’s a happy ending for everyone. But I don’t think these endings always follow the last page of a book, or that everyone is guaranteed to find their happily ever after. Happy endings can be caught, but they are difficult to hold on to. They are dreams that want to escape the night. They are treasures with wings. They are wild, feral, reckless things that need to be constantly chased, or they will certainly run away.”

— Stephanie Garber

124. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

125. “He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn’t quite theirs.”

— Stephanie Garber

126. “He gritted his teeth. “Being yours does not make you mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

127. “But Scarlett knew who Julian was. He was flawed and imperfect, rash and impulsive. But he was also passionate and loyal and loving and he was who she wanted. His hand was the hand that she wanted to hold. His voice was the sound she wanted to hear, and his smile wasn’t just something she wanted to see, she wanted to be the reason for it.”

— Stephanie Garber

128. “Arrogant. Overconfident. Vain. Impossible. She hated the way he refused to leave her alone, how he took her insults the same way other boys might take a compliment, and that his interest in her was clearly only part of his role. And yet she could never seem to push him away.”

— Stephanie Garber

129. “He kissed her once more, gently and deliberately, reassuring her without words that he had no intentions of letting her go.”

— Stephanie Garber

130. “Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don’t end happily, and neither do the two of us.”

— Stephanie Garber

131. “I’m sorry, Crimson. I lied when I said I left for five weeks to give you space. I left because I was angry you wanted to meet the count, and I thought leaving would make you want me more.”

— Stephanie Garber

132. “He’s never stared at her like this before. Sometimes he gazed at her as if he wanted to be her undoing, but just then it was as if he wanted her to undo him.”

— Stephanie Garber

133. “I used to fear I wouldn’t come back, until I learned that it’s the fear that feeds him. It’s the same way hopes and dreams give Legend so much power during Caraval.”

— Stephanie Garber

134. “For it was also said the Prince Of Hearts was not capable of love because his heart had stopped beating long ago. Only one person could make it beat again: his one true love. They said his kiss had been fatal to all but her – his only weakness – and as he’d sought her, he’d let a trail of corpses.”

— Stephanie Garber

135. “It didn’t matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.”

— Stephanie Garber

136. “She wanted to trust him, but a lifetime of mistrust made it impossible.”

— Stephanie Garber

137. “Invite the lie to play until you become so comfortable with it that it feels like the truth.”

— Stephanie Garber

138. “Humans were selfish creatures. The stars witnessed it again, and again, and again. But tonight, as stars peered down on the world, they saw what seemed to be truly unselfish acts.”

— Stephanie Garber

139. “Her heart was still a little heavy, but she’d decided carrying it around would only maker her stronger.”

— Stephanie Garber

140. “Nothing has been safe since the moment I laid eyes on you. And yet I don’t want to look away.”

— Stephanie Garber

141. “A second in Caraval seemed richer than an ordinary second, like that moment on the cusp of sunset, when all the colors of the sky coalesce into magic.”

— Stephanie Garber

142. “Only those who persevere can find their true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

143. “The air was full of salt and secrets.”

— Stephanie Garber

144. “Tella loved danger the same way candlewicks loved to burn. It never seemed to scare her that some of the things she lusted for might consume her like a flame.”

— Stephanie Garber

145. “It tasted like the moment before night gives birth to morning; it was the end of one thing and the beginning of something else all wrapped up together.”

— Stephanie Garber

146. “Just because something is real doesn’t mean you believe in it.”

— Stephanie Garber

147. “For finding dreams that don’t exist yet.”

— Stephanie Garber

148. “No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don’t lie to others, we often lie to ourselves.”

— Stephanie Garber

149. “She’d once heard emotions and desires fueled the magic that made wishes possible. But either Scarlett didn’t feel enough, or the stories she’d heard about wishes were made of lies.”

— Stephanie Garber

150. “Shades of the rich ruby love she’d felt during the game mixed with hues of deep-indigo hurt, turning everything just a little bit violet.”

— Stephanie Garber