Top 450 Stephanie Garber Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Not every love needs to make a great story, Jacks.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

404. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

405. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

407. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

409. “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

410. “But you could open us.”

— Stephanie Garber

411. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

413. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

415. “Apollo hated apples.”

— Stephanie Garber

416. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

417. “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

418. “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

419. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

421. “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

422. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

424. “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

425. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

427. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

428. “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

429. “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

430. “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.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

436. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Stephanie Garber

443. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

446. “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

447. “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

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

— Stephanie Garber

449. “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

450. “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