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“So,’ she said cautiously, 'is all this your way of telling me you’re the villain?’
His chuckle was dark. 'I’m definitely not the hero.’
'I already knew that,’ Tella said. 'It’s my story, so clearly I’m the hero.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“You're the starlight to his darkness, and if you feel the same about him, you should give him another chance.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“If you can convince yourself it's true, you can convince anyone.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“His mouth was crashing against hers. He tasted like exquisite nightmares and stolen dreams, like the wings of fallen angels, and bottles of fresh moonlight.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“For it was also said the Prince Of Hearts was not capable of love because his heart had stopped beating long ago. Only one person could make it beat again: his one true love. They said his kiss had been fatal to all but her - his only weakness - and as he’d sought her, he’d let a trail of corpses.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Scar, I don't know what you're thinking, but I swear there is nothing going on between Dante and me. You know how I feel about boys who are prettier than me.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Why aren’t you dressed like a leopard with butterfly wings, or a unicorn?”
A sliver of a grin. “Not even Legend could make me dress like a unicorn.”
“But unicorns are magical, and then all the ladies would want to pet you.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Tella often imagined she knew what people thought when they saw her. One look at her honey-blond curls, her girlish smile, and her pretty dresses, coupled with the fact that she liked to enjoy herself, and people dismissed her as a silly girl. Tella might have been many things, but she was far from silly or worthless or whatever labels people liked to affix because a person was young and female. Tella liked to think that was where much of her strength came from. She was bold. She was brave. She was cunning. And she was going to come out of this triumphant—no matter the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“As fantastical as Caraval might feel, the next five nights are very real.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

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

“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

“Gold shimmered no matter what, but few people could make darkness glitter the way he did.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Her heart was still a little heavy, but she'd decided carrying it around would only maker her stronger.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“This was why love was so dangerous. Love turn the whole world into a garden, so beguiling it was easy to forget that rose petals were as ephemeral as feelings, eventually they would wilt and die, leaving nothing but the thorns.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Legends were supposed to be better than the truth.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“...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.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Tella was the sister who would destroy the world if anything happened to Scarlett, but Scarlett’s world would be destroyed if anything happened to Tella.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Saying something was for someone else’s own good was almost always another way of justifying something wrong.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“The air was full of salt and secrets.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“He looked like a freshly woken storm, or a beautiful nightmare come to life so he could personally haunt her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Invite the lie to play until you become so comfortable with it that it feels like the truth.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“The Prince of Hearts. A symbol of unrequited love and irrevocable mistakes that never ceased to fill Tella with both dread and morbid bewitchment.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“For centuries the Fates were locked away, but now they wish to come out and play.
If they regain their magic the world will never be the same, but you can help stop them by winning the game”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“What have I always told you about the future?"
"Every person has the power to write her own.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“The very thing he'd done to keep her was the very thing that had broken them apart.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I used to fear I wouldn't come back, until I learned that it's the fear that feeds him. It's the same way hopes and dreams give Legend so much power during Caraval.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary