Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The first time I kissed you I did it because I’d just died and come back to life, but I wasn’t feeling alive. I needed something real. But tonight I kissed you because I wanted you. I haven’t stopped wanting you since the night of the Fated Ball when you were willing to risk your life because you wanted to make me angry. After that, I couldn’t stay away.”

— Stephanie Garber

352. “Instead of time moving like sand slowly pouring through an hourglass, she felt as if the hourglass had cracked open and all the sand was quickly spilling out. She didn’t know if it was her fear or if it was something else, but she kept losing moments.”

— Stephanie Garber

353. “She meant to say, For tonight, I’m yours, but all that came out was “I’m yours.”

— Stephanie Garber

354. “Heroes don’t get happy endings.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

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356. “So, she only gave herself one minute. One minute to cry for Dante and sob for her sister and rage because Julian was not who she thought he was. To fall on the bed and whine and moan over all the things that had churned out of her control. To pick up Legend’s stupid vase of roses and dash them against the mantel of the fireplace.”

— Stephanie Garber

357. “Butter-soft light streamed through the rounded windows, gilding every surface of the unexpectedly bright flat that Evangeline found herself in. The walls were covered in bold yellow and orange flowers, the shelves were speckled with glitter, and the books on them were arranged by the colour of the spine.”

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358. “Each living wall was formed of different rare flowers. Burning orange starfire lilies. Deep purple twilight thistles. Brilliant gold creeping faisies. Champagne delights. Scorching red feverbells. All of which grew and stretched with every person that stepped inside.”

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359. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

360. “He considered setting the room ablaze just so that he’d have a reason to pick her up and carry her out, to save her one last time, before he left her for good.”

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361. “Julian had always been handsome to her, but this very real scar down his cheek made him devastating. It reminded her of his bravery and his selflessness, and how he’d made her feel more than anyone else she’d ever met.”

— Stephanie Garber

362. “Don’t worry, I’m still not going to kiss you.” His lips brushed over the delicate underside of her wrist. Once. Twice. Three times. It was barely a touch, and yet there was something incredibly intimate about it. It made her think of the other stories that said his kisses might have been fatal, but they were worth dying for.”

— Stephanie Garber

363. “I made your heart beat. I’m your one true love. Your kiss can’t kill me.”

— Stephanie Garber

364. “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.”

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365. “There’s more to life than staying safe.”

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366. “Then it hit her, not a feeling but a thought – a sharp, fragmented one. She had something important to tell someone.”

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367. “He wanted to keep her pressed to the floor beneath him. He would have set the world on fire and then let it all burn just to keep holding her like this.”

— Stephanie Garber

368. “Are you sure? For a moment you stopped breathing. Or do I just have that affect on you?”

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369. “At least that’s what he’d told himself. She was only a key. A human. She wasn’t an obsession. She wasn’t his.”

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370. “And it might have been a beautiful moment, if Legend had not chosen that same instant to pull out a knife and stab Julian in the chest.”

— Stephanie Garber

371. “What would have been was a question that no one ever knew the answer to.”

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372. “The gowns all came in shades of frost white, pearl pink, romantic blue, and fresh cream. Some were simple sheaths. Others had elaborate trains or hems covered in everything from silken flowers to seashells. None of them looked as if they’d ever been worn.”

— Stephanie Garber

373. “He wanted to know what her voice sounded like, what her skin felt like.”

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374. “I know I seem naive,” Evangeline pressed on. ” I know my faith in love might appear foolish. I also know it might not be enough. But I’m not doing this because I believe I’ll win. 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 fiery explosion, but I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”

— Stephanie Garber

375. “But you could open us.”

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

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377. “But more than those things, she wanted to forever by his side, whether he was with her as she was fighting a nightmare or chasing a dream, or if it was the other way around and she was helping him achieve a new dream. Even if that meant sacrificing one of her dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

378. “He looked like ethereal heartbreak.”

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379. “Believing something doesn’t make it true.”

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380. “Jacks has done atrocious, unforgivable things to you, and I truly believe you might be happier if those things stay forgotten.”

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

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382. “Although given how driven Jacks was, if he were to be, loyal, she could see him being loyal to the death.”

— Stephanie Garber

383. “But there were reasons powerful emotions didn’t vanish in a blink, reasons why a person had to become stronger than her feelings to let them go.”

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384. “There were things in this world to be truly afraid of, but loving Julian was not one of them.”

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385. “I don’t think what you want will help you. But I do appreciate a good lost cause.”

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386. “You’re right. You keep saying Jacks is the villain. Yet you just let a man attack me with his pet bird in order to hunt another man down and kill him. You also told my guards – who aren’t very nice, by the way – not to let me leave the castle, despite promising me you’d never lock me up. So, no, I don’t know how much of a threat Lord Jacks is, but I’m starting to see you as one.”

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387. “Your memories were stolen by someone who’s been trying to tear us apart.” Something flickered in Apollo’s brown eyes, although if it was anger or pain, she couldn’t tell.”

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388. “Evangeline, of course, knew that bells could not speak. But her Mother had told her that bells had a sixth sense. She’d said to always polish them, always mind what you say in front of them and always listen to the bells that ring when they shouldn’t.”

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389. “Love really was another type of magic.”

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390. “Death visited Tella while she slept. The tips of his claws stroked the back of her neck, while his shadow followed her into pristine dreams, poisoning all the colors until everything tasted of dust and withered to ash.”

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391. “Now that you’ve gotten a taste of our world, your life will start to feel bland.”

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392. “His heart was racing again, and now so was hers.”

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393. “And what do people say? Tella asked. Just that he murdered his last fiancee. But they also say he’s very handsome, she tacked on, as if that made up for murder.”

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394. “How can you keep mistaking me for someone who cares?”

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395. “You make an excellent murder suspect. Orphan, turned savior, turned bride, turned killer – I’m actually surprised that wasn’t Kristof’s headline today.”

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396. “Fate is only an idea, but I think by believing in it we turn it into something more. You just said you’ve avoided love because you’ve believed it wasn’t in your future, and so it hasn’t been.”

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397. “He seemed uncharacteristically nervous as he reached toward her cheek. He slowly took an errant pink strand of hair between his fingers and tucked it behind her ear. He was so careful, his fingers didn’t even brush her skin, but he looked as if he wanted to.”

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398. “Not every love needs to make a great story, Jacks.”

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399. “This forest was filled with flowers that produced light at night and birds that sang music so sweet even the hardest heart wept at hearing it.”

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400. “She didn’t want someone to hold her while she cried and tell her it would be all right. She wanted fury, she wanted rage, she wanted a villain to tell her she’d done exactly what she needed to do.”

— Stephanie Garber