Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “I’m the villain, even in my own story. But you were supposed to play a different role. You were supposed to be my true love... you were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.”

— Stephanie Garber

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “Relax, Crimson – ” “It’s Scarlett.” “Same difference.”

— Stephanie Garber

166. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

169. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

175. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

187. “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

188. “We might not have what you want, but we have what you need.”

— Stephanie Garber

189. “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

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. “The future is much like the past; it is mostly set, but can always be altered.”

— Stephanie Garber

192. “Tella claimed she didn’t want love – she liked to say love trapped and controlled and ripped hearts apart. But the truth was she also knew love healed and held people together, and deep down she wanted it more than anything. 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

193. “Feathers covered the carnage, as if a rebel angel had gone mad.”

— Stephanie Garber

194. “There were many beautiful young men in the world, but Tella believed that none of them could be trusted with something as fragile, or valuable, as a heart.”

— Stephanie Garber

195. “Jacks’s mouth twisted bitterly. “Since then, every girl I’ve kissed has died, except for one. And you are not that girl.”

— Stephanie Garber

196. “He didn’t kiss her as if he’d simply just come back to life. He kissed her as if he’d died, been buried, and clawed his way out of the grave and through the dirt just to get to her.”

— Stephanie Garber

197. “Being yours does not make you mine.”

— Stephanie Garber

198. “If I remain your wife, I promise that I will make you fall in love with me. I will become everything you’ve ever wanted, and the moment you are mortal, I’ll stab the closest sharp object through your chest and end your heartbeat once and for all.”

— Stephanie Garber

199. “He wasn’t afraid. He was something far worse. He was hopeful that she would choose him.”

— Stephanie Garber

200. “There was something fantastically bewitching about the idea that a person’s destiny could change in one single night.”

— Stephanie Garber