Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Fear was a poison that people mistook as protection.”

— Stephanie Garber

152. “Je hebt je verloofde aan een bed vastgebonden?′ gniffelde Tella.”

— Stephanie Garber

153. “It made her wonder if jewels hidden away safely in boxes sometimes longed to be stolen by thieves – because now he was definitely stealing her heart, and she wanted him to take even more.”

— Stephanie Garber

154. “He was the perfect picture of a gentleman in a top hat and tails, fully sane and dreadfully victorious.”

— Stephanie Garber

155. “I’m not going to tell you to trust me, because that’s a terrible idea. But you can believe that if I were going to have you harm Apollo, I wouldn’t be around when it happened.”

— Stephanie Garber

156. “I imagine the game wouldn’t be the same in the light,” Scarlett answered. “People think no one sees all the nasty things they do in the dark. The foul acts they commit, or the lies they tell as part of the game. Caraval takes place at night because you like to watch, and see what people do when they think there are no consequences.”

— Stephanie Garber

157. “When Evangeline had been infected with vampire venom, he had been there to make sure she didn’t feed on anyone and complete the transformation into a vampire. She’d never thanked him because she still felt embarrassed about the way they’d been tangled together that night. And she had no idea what to think of the way Chaos had smoothed her slip down before leaving. He was a monster for sure, but it seemed he was also a gentleman. A gentleman monster.”

— Stephanie Garber

158. “The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”

— Stephanie Garber

159. “Think whatever you want, but if you honestly believe that’s the only reason I’m here with my hands all over you, you’re not nearly as clever as I thought.”

— Stephanie Garber

160. “Saying something was for someone else’s own good was almost always another way of justifying something wrong.”

— Stephanie Garber

161. “Scarlet 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. Usually she wanted the opposite, for time to speed up, race ahead, so that she could escape any current pain and move forward into a new, unblemished moment.”

— Stephanie Garber

162. “Dante had wings. And, holy mother of saints, they were beautiful-soulless jet-black with midnight-blue veins, the color of lost wishes and fallen stardust.”

— Stephanie Garber

163. “Ballads never end happily, everyone knows that.”

— Stephanie Garber

164. “I don’t believe it’s as hopeless as it seems.”

— Stephanie Garber

165. “There are heroes, and there are villains. She made her choice between the two, and she got the ending that came with it.”

— Stephanie Garber

166. “For a moment she could feel his emotions again, as close as if they were her own. Awe mixed with fierce protectiveness, and a thread of pain so intense she wanted to take the hurt from him.”

— Stephanie Garber

167. “Do you stare at everyone like that, or just me?”

— Stephanie Garber

168. “Evangeline wanted a real love powerful enough to break a spell, which was exactly what Jacks wanted, too.”

— Stephanie Garber

169. “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

170. “I believe you could be good if you wanted to be.” “You only believe that because you’re so good. Decent people like you always believe other people can be virtuous, but I’m not.”

— Stephanie Garber

171. “I think the most magnificent things are worth living for.”

— Stephanie Garber

172. “Legends were supposed to be better than the truth.”

— Stephanie Garber

173. “Tick Tock Little Fox.”

— Stephanie Garber

174. “But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do.”

— Stephanie Garber

175. “As fantastical as Caraval might feel, the next five nights are very real.”

— Stephanie Garber

176. “Sometimes Scarlett felt all of Trisda was under a dome, a large piece of glass that trapped everyone inside while her father looked down, moving – or removing – people if they weren’t in the right places.”

— Stephanie Garber

177. “Just one look set her blood on fire, and she liked the way it burned.”

— Stephanie Garber

178. “Tella had exchanged things with other young men, but never hearts, and though she still had no plans to relinquish that part of her to Dante, she was beginning to understand how hearts could be slowly given away, without a person even realizing. How sometimes just a look, or a rare moment of vulnerability like the one Dante had just shared with her, was enough to steal a fraction of a heart.”

— Stephanie Garber

179. “The very thing he’d done to keep her was the very thing that had broken them apart.”

— Stephanie Garber

180. “But you have to have a working heart for it to break.”

— Stephanie Garber

181. “Inside the house, violin music, richer than the darkest chocolate, started playing. It seeped outside and whispered to Scarlett as Julian’s smile turned seductive, all shameless curves and immoral promises. An invitation to places that proper young ladies didn’t think about, let alone visit.”

— Stephanie Garber

182. “But there are many things to want in life. It’s not a bad thing if there are other things you desire a little more.”

— Stephanie Garber

183. “And Scarlett cried. She cried for all the horrors he had been, and she cried for the wonders that he could have been instead.”

— Stephanie Garber

184. “She knew when she was being deceived and she couldn’t imagine she’d become so confused about reality that she would lose her life or go insane.”

— Stephanie Garber

185. “Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

186. “Sometimes it’s easier to have someone else wound you.”

— Stephanie Garber

187. “Neat rooms were easy to rifle through and search undetected because it was simple to put carefully placed things exactly where they’d been. But messes, on the other hand, were difficult to recreate.”

— Stephanie Garber

188. “His voice was soothing ans commanding all at once, like the crackle of flames devouring wood. Fierce and fatal, yet somehow steady and reassuring. The type of voice a girl could have been easily consumed by.”

— Stephanie Garber

189. “I think I’ve made a mistake.” “Then make it into something better.”

— Stephanie Garber

190. “Evangeline didn’t want love that made sense, she wanted love that made her feel, love that made her want to fight and hope for the impossible.”

— Stephanie Garber

191. “Just because it was a negative emotion didn’t mean it wasn’t a valuable one.”

— Stephanie Garber

192. “Legend laughed, deep and rumbling “I’ll always want to play with you. But tonight I’m not playing. I want you, Donatella Dragna. I’ve never felt like this about anyone, and I’ve never asked anyone this either.”

— Stephanie Garber

193. “Jacks ran across the cavern and punched Apollo in the face. Then he punched him again and again. He punched until he stopped feeling his fist, breaking Apollo’s bones. When blood spewed from the prince’s nose, Jacks felt it spray his cheek.”

— Stephanie Garber

194. “You have me – and there is nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”

— Stephanie Garber

195. “Scarlett’s feelings were a commotion of colors, swirling around her in garlands of excited aquamarine, nervous marigold, and frustrated gingersnap.”

— Stephanie Garber

196. “Nothing about him was soft. His chest felt like a block of marble and yet she could have closed her eyes, curled up against him, and gone to sleep forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

197. “Jacks shoved her out of the way before she could move. Lightning fast, he darted in front of her like a shield.”

— Stephanie Garber

198. “And it struck her how intimate words could be, how they could be spoken only once, for only one person, and they would never be heard again, they would disappear like a moment, gone almost as soon as you realized they were there.”

— Stephanie Garber

199. “She enjoyed the kisses, but a part of her always wished that whenever she walked away from a boy he’d run after her, beg her to stay, and then promise he’d never leave.”

— Stephanie Garber

200. “Fortune-tellers aren’t like you and me. They see the world as it could be, and sometimes they try to bring about what they want, rather than what should be.”

— Stephanie Garber