Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “He was a thousand cuts happening all at once. Devastation made of hair as blue as dark ocean waves, and lips sharp as cracked glass that would delightedly cut her.”

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252. “People called it falling out of love, but falling was easy. Letting go of Luc had been more like climbing the face of a rock. She’d clawed her way out, fighting to shake it off, to let it go, to find something to hold on to.”

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253. “He was terrible. There was no other word to describe him- except maybe heartless or depraved or rotten. The way Jacks seemed to enjoy pain was absolutely staggering. The apple in his hand probably possessed more sympathy than he did. This was not the same young man who’d practically bled heartbreak all over the knave of the church. Something inside of him was broken.”

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254. “All stories are made of both truths and lies, she used to say. What matters is the way that we believe in them.”

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255. “When we feel, it’s intense and consuming. It devours us and drives us. And the strongest of our feelings is always the urge to be that which we were made to be.”

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256. “I’ll never understand humans.” Poison sighed. “All of you seem to welcome our lies, but you never like it when we tell the truth.”

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257. “Luck had nothing to do with it,” Jacks mumbled. “I wanted you here, Little Fox. Who do you think asked Poison to save you and suggest to his empress that she send you to Nocte Neverending?”

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258. “Dark was for stars and dreams and the magic that took place in between days.”

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259. “She tried to pull away, but Jacks held tight, knotting her hair in his fist and keeping his forehead pressed to hers. “Please, Little Fox, remember.”

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260. “He was still indescribably breathtaking, but it was all the tragic beauty of a sky where every single star was falling. His hair was a storm of broken gold. His eyes were a mess of silver and blue.”

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261. “If you think I’m nice, you really need to spend time with better people.”

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262. “Hurt is what made me.”

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263. “If hope were a pair of wings, Evangeline’s were stretching out behind her, eager to take flight again.”

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264. “I already told you. You are the love of my life. You are mine, Jacks of the Hollow. And you’re not going to be the end of me.” “But you were dying.” “No,” she said, a little embarrassed. “I just forgot to breathe.”

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265. “Tella was amazing; of course Death would want to keep her.”

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266. “Happy endings can be caught, but they are difficult to hold on to.”

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267. “It’s all right. I’d probably kill another man if I found him with you like this.”

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268. “People who don’t like me call me Jacks.”

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269. “I know you were willing to sacrifice yourself for her, but I wasn’t willing to sacrifice you.”

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270. “The girl was dead. If her lifeless body had not confirmed it, then it would have been made clear by the horrible scream of the Fate who held her in his arms. The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form.”

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271. “Tella loved it when he showed off. She loved that he was magical. She loved so many things about him. She wanted him more than she’d ever wanted anyone – she didn’t want him to let her go or to leave her alone, not even for a moment. She wanted him to chase her to the ends of the earth, to show up in her dreams every night, and to be there when she woke as well. She wanted him to love her.”

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272. “And you’re wrong if you think I don’t want you. I’ve wanted you for so long, and I’ll never stop wanting you.”

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273. “The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. ‘There is nothing of equal value to me.”

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274. “The future is much like the past; it is mostly set, but can always be altered – ” “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.” “So, you’re saying everything is fated?”

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275. “But Tella wanted love about as much as she wished to contract a disease. There were no kisses worth dying for. No souls worth merging with. 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.”

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276. “Something cracked inside of Tella. It might have been her heart, breaking while he walked away-as if he hadn’t just freed the fates and damned the entire world for her.”

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277. “And then they will write their vows on their hands and place them over each other’s chests, so they may sink into their hearts, where they will be kept safe forever and always.”

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278. “I’m actually a little afraid I’m going to lose. I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it’s a reason to fight for those things. I know my attempt to save Jacks could end in a fiery explosion, but I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”

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279. “He looked like a bad decision some unfortunate person was about to make.”

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280. “LaLa is my friend, this is her engagement party, and it is going to be magical. No one is going to die at this celebration. You are not going to kill people while we’re here.” Jacks leaned back in his seat and picked up his apple, mouth twisting into a sullen frown. “That’s a terrible plan, Little Fox.” He took a wide bite, sharp teeth tearing at the fruit. “Someone is going to die. It will either be one of them or one of us.”

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281. “Then her parents would both be sure to tell Evangeline that not all loves happened at first; some took time to grow like seeds, or they might be like bulbs, dormant until the right season approached. But Evangeline had always wanted love at first- she wanted love like her parents, love like a story.”

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282. “She no longer wanted to quietly sit at the end of a story. She wanted to keep stepping into new ones. She wanted to love, to discover, to feel. She wanted a life that felt like running through a field of wildflowers and then finding a gate at the end that led into an enchanted unknown. And she wanted to do it all with Jacks.”

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283. “Jacks gave her a smile that was all sharp edges. A drop of blood fell from the corner of his mouth, and something godforsaken washed over his expression. “Hurt is what made me.”

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284. “She’d been wrong before. Her life hadn’t been full of moments leading to the Valory Arch. Every moment of everything had brought her to this place. It had taken all the heartbreak, all the almost love and the wrong love, to know that this love was true love.”

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285. “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.”

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286. “Paradise was afraid of love because when she loved, she did it as fiercely as she lived.”

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287. “She liked the thrill that came with taking risks. 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. It was the closest she ever came to holding real power.”

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288. “Red. The color of love and heartache and other things both virtuous and vile.”

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289. “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. He was turned toward his nightstand washing his face, or maybe he was kissing his reflection in the mirror.”

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290. “He’d been infected with vampire venom, and she’d been infected with stupidity.”

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291. “But I actually think I fell more in love with the idea of you than the real you.”

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292. “Having faith was brave.”

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293. “I’ve made my decision, Jacks. It’s you. It will always be you, until the end of time.”

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294. “I’m not going to tell you to trust me, because that’s a terrible idea.”

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295. “Follow the boy with the heart made of black.”

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296. “I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”

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297. “I swear this is what I really want.” He spoke each word like a vow. “I want to erase every moment you and I have spent together, every word you’ve said to me, and every time I’ve touched you, because if I don’t, I’ll kill you, just like I killed the Fox.”

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298. “I will not let you die.” A single bead of water dripped from Jacks’s lashes onto her lips. It was raindrop soft, but the look in his eyes held the force of a storm.”

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299. “Little Fox. Two simple words. Only they did not feel simple at all. They felt like falling. They felt like hope. They felt like the most important words in the world. The words made her blood rush and her head spin until once again it was only her and Jacks. Nothing existed except for the press of his cool forehead, the feel of his strong hand tangling in her hair, and the pleading, broken look in his quicksilver blue eyes.”

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300. “For the rest of her life, whenever she thought about heartbreak, she would see the way he looked at her.”

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