Caraval Boxed Set Quotes

“Relax, Crimson—” “It’s Scarlett.” “Same difference.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“He tasted like exquisite nightmares and stolen dreams, like the wings of fallen angels, and bottles of fresh moonlight.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Few things were quite so brutal as critical ladies.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“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, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“You were supposed to want me, not him. You were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“I’m the villain, even in my own story. But you were supposed to play a different role.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Dante’s voice rumbled with a laugh. ‘If I was Legend I’d definitely never tell you.’ ‘Because you don’t trust me?’ ‘No,’ he answered slowly, gently tugging her even closer. ‘I’d hold on to my secret because I’d want to keep playing the game with you, and if I told you the truth it would spoil all the fun.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Tella loved danger the same way candlewicks loved to burn.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“There’s more to life than staying safe. …”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“the way a word feels bigger with an exclamation point tacked onto it.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“It made her wonder if jewels hidden away safely in boxes sometimes longed to be stolen by thieves – because now he was definitely stealing her heart, and she wanted him to take even more.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“She felt as if something had been lost. As if she’d been cut, but nothing was bleeding. And nothing seemed to be gone, either.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“The scent of tall tales, charcoal pencils, and parchment tickled Tella’s nose”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“the dark blue color of tears cried from storm clouds.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Be warned, winning the game will come at a cost you will later regret.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“The witch also warned that wishes come with costs, and the more he performed, the more he would transform into whatever roles he played. If he acted the part of a villain, he’d become one in truth.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Gloves are a symbolic gift … connected with asking for a girl’s hand in marriage … a young man’s way of saying he’ll take care of a girl, by giving her gloves to protect her hands.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“But if he was, then Legend was a greater villain than Tella had ever imagined.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Tella looked like a character who had wandered into the wrong story.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Covered in sapphire-blue lace that clung to a nude shell, the gown was delicate and feminine and a little scandalous all at once.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“They tasted like frost and wishes gone wrong.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“once a future is foretold, that future becomes a living thing, and it will fight very hard to bring itself about.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“It tasted like the moment before night gives birth to morning;”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“He takes on a part of whatever roles he plays, and he’d been playing the role of a villain for so long, he’d become one in real life.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Scarlett grabbed the fireplace poker and stoked the logs, watching the fire skip over the metal until it turned shades of brilliant orange-red—the color of bravery.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Aiko suddenly appeared by Scarlett’s side. Her skirt and blouse were silver this time, with eyes and lips painted to match. Like a teardrop the moon had cried.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“The moon was only a sliver, but it cast a silver glow over the usually colorful shops and turned the water into liquid metal.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Death was the color purple. Purple wallpaper and purple temperatures. Her nana’s purple gown—only the honey-blond young woman wearing the gown, and sitting in the purple chair, looked much more like Donatella.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy

“Not quite sure how far she’d already fallen, she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came”
― Stephanie Garber, The Caraval Complete Trilogy