Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I don’t care what she wants!′ roared the Fate. ‘I don’t want her dead. She saved you, you need to save her.”

— Stephanie Garber

402. “Given that the bookstore was a bit of a secret, it didn’t look like much from the outside. Just a door with a knob that always seemed on the verge of falling off. And yet there was a certain sort of magic once you stepped inside. It was the feel of candlelight at twilight, paper dust caught in the air, and rows and rows of unusual books on crooked shelves.”

— Stephanie Garber

403. “But Evangeline’s heart was already broken. And she understood the risks she was taking. She knew the rules for visiting Fated churches: Always promise less than you can give, for Fates always take more. Do not make bargains with more than one Fate. And, above all, never fall in love with a Fate.”

— Stephanie Garber

404. “Apollo hated apples.”

— Stephanie Garber

405. “Evangeline wished she could remember him. But the harder she tried, the worse she felt.”

— Stephanie Garber

406. “You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t cry.”

— Stephanie Garber

407. “The two of them would never be equal- he would always have more power than she did. But that didn’t mean she was powerless.”

— Stephanie Garber

408. “Can you at least try to smile?” she asked. He flashed his teeth. “That looks predatory.” “I am predatory. So is everyone else here,” he whispered.”

— Stephanie Garber

409. “I’ll ask you one more time, then you lose the eye. And I almost hope you don’t answer, because I’d love to cut out your eye. Who hired you to kill her?”

— Stephanie Garber

410. “Two nights ago, Apollo had said she wasn’t a prisoner and he’d never lock her up. In fact, he’d looked deeply hurt when she’d mentioned it. Clearly, these guards were mistaken.”

— Stephanie Garber

411. “I love balls and parties that have a high probability of ending dramatically. But I could cause an international incident – possibly a war – if I attend this celebration.”

— Stephanie Garber

412. “She wished there was a way to tether her heart to his, so that even when they were apart they would still be attached.”

— Stephanie Garber

413. “I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.”

— Stephanie Garber

414. “She’d forgotten how hope could make colors brighter and feelings warmer, how it could shift thoughts from what wasn’t to what was possible.”

— Stephanie Garber

415. “I was definitely jealous, but thats not the only reason I wanted you out of there.”

— Stephanie Garber

416. “He wore his plum-colored gloves, the shade of dark bruises and power.”

— Stephanie Garber

417. “But now it was crystal clear – he was the one who did the breaking, because he didn’t know how to love.”

— Stephanie Garber

418. “She felt like softness and sunlight and seeds for growing dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

419. “Don’t worry, Jacks, I would never inconvenience you by dying.”

— Stephanie Garber

420. “There were three rules about Fates that Evangeline had been taught as a child. The most important of those rules was to never ever fall in love with a Fate.”

— Stephanie Garber

421. “She didn’t need to erase her pain; she needed it to propel her into action. Just because it was a negative emotion didn’t mean it wasn’t a valuable one.”

— Stephanie Garber

422. “Black veins were filling the garden, spreading like escaped ink. Darkness, darkness everywhere. It was night, without any moons or stars.”

— Stephanie Garber

423. “Archer held her tighter. He banded one arm firmly around her ribs, the other he circled just below her waist, almost on her hips, his fingers splayed in a way that felt less like he wanted to restrain her and more like he just wanted to touch her – to hold her on that bridge in the dark where it was only the two of them and the rain and the feel of too many heartbeats racing between them.”

— Stephanie Garber

424. “Careful, pet. You might be one of the empress’s guests, but many in her court are not as forgiving as I am. And I’m not forgiving at all.”

— Stephanie Garber

425. “Did you ever play that game as a child- the one where there’s a circle of chairs, and when the music stops playing you have to find a chair to sit in? But there’s never enough chairs for everyone, so one person is always left without a seat in the circle and then tossed out of the game. That’s how I feel, as if I missed my chance at a chair and now I’ve been tossed out of the game.”

— Stephanie Garber

426. “Evangeline was beginning to fear that time was fuelled by emotions and things like dread made it move faster.”

— Stephanie Garber

427. “Scarlett tried to wiggle free, but the look on his face stopped her. He’d 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

428. “Tella had a spark that could either set the whole world ablaze, or give it much-needed light.”

— Stephanie Garber

429. “Jacks eyed the bare stretch of skin that went from her chest to her neck. And before she could read the look on his face, he dropped her wrist and stalked off into a dark kingdom of crypts and tombstones.”

— Stephanie Garber

430. “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. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand.”

— Stephanie Garber

431. “I was poisoned by a man I thought to be a friend,” Apollo roared. “Lord Jacks is the man who killed me. Then he stole the memories of my bride, Evangeline. I will not rest until Jacks is found and he pays for his crimes with his life!”

— Stephanie Garber

432. “Relax, brother.” A wolfish smile replaced Julian’s scowl. “I was just going to tell her the truth. We all have free will, Tella. If you become immortal, you won’t lose your free will. You won’t feel my brother controlling you. But you’ll never feel him loving you like the way I love Crimson.”

— Stephanie Garber

433. “We want you to get swept away, but be careful of being swept too far away,” repeated Rupert. “What happens if someone does get swept too far away?” asked Scarlett. “That’s usually when people die or go mad,” Rupert answered, so calmly she wondered if she’d misheard him.”

— Stephanie Garber

434. “He’d never heard her curse properly before. She wasn’t very good at it, but she was trying furiously.”

— Stephanie Garber

435. “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

436. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

437. “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

438. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

439. “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

440. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

443. “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

444. “I don’t know if I can fix your broken heart, but you can take mine because it’s already yours.”

— Stephanie Garber

445. “I do understand, and I hope you understand that as long as you treat me like an untrustworthy captive, I will act like one instead of your wife.”

— Stephanie Garber

446. “She tried to take comfort in the books. Stories had always felt as if they were her friends. But all these stories felt like distant relations to the tales she knew.”

— Stephanie Garber

447. “As much as she hated the choice that Jacks was making, she didn’t want to take it away. Instead, she hoped, one final time, that he would make a better one.”

— Stephanie Garber

448. “He willingly entered the cage, but now he regarded the lock like a thief contemplating all the ways he could break it.”

— Stephanie Garber

449. “If you care about her at all, then you should let her go rather than try to change her.”

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450. “She especially felt the women, judging her freshly mussed curls and her nearly backless gown as they whispered to one another words that Tella didn’t need to hear to imagine. Few things were quite so brutal as critical ladies.”

— Stephanie Garber