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“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Happy endings can be caught, but they are difficult to hold on to. They are dreams that want to escape the night. They are treasure with wings. They are wild, feral, reckless things that need to be constantly chased, or they will certainly run away.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Not everyone gets a true ending. There are two types of endings because most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, where the situation feels hopeless. But that’s when hope is needed most. only those who persevere can find their true ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Adulthood should be illegal.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Normal" was for those who didn't have the ability to stretch their minds past the unreachable end.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She was afraid, but she knew now: fear usually meant you were standing on the edge of something new, something self-altering, something potentially good. Fear was not something she would shy away from ever again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“It had occurred to her many times over that "impossible" was merely a word people used to describe limitations they wished for you to adhere to, so you wouldn't upset the balance.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“I would never make the mistake of underestimating a woman like you. It would be a fatal one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Nothing has to matter unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“You have to learn to take what you want—and never, ever let someone take what you don’t want to give.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“There’s no such thing as fighting dirty,â€� I told Nash, “if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“What is the human condition, if not Why me?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“I'm not good at losing people." Grayson paused. "Either that," he continued hoarsely, "or I am exceptionally good at losing people.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“Maybe people can be happy and sad. Maybe stories are messy and complicated. Maybe endings don’t always include solutions that tie everything together in a bow. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be tragedies.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

“Nothing hurts unless you let it. Nothing matters unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“History isn't a premade tapestry that we've got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. Seize on every opportunity that comes your way and cling to it, lest it be washed back out to sea.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Make art, make mistakes, and have no regrets.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I’ve hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“My favorite thing about music—when you played it loud enough through good headphones (and I had the best)—was that it softened the edges of the world.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies