Great and Precious Things Quotes

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“You two are a damned Shakespearean tragedy. It’s slightly entertaining yet incredibly painful to watch.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“No, you don’t. I was most angry at Sullivan, because he had the right I would have died for and never even used it. Because when he passed, it was Mom’s name on his lips, when I knew mine would have been yours.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“You’re free to make your own choices, but you’re not free from the consequences of that choice.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“There was power in not giving a fuck.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I’ve loved you since forever. I’ve been in love with you since I was old enough to understand what that meant. No one else ever had a shot of getting close. How could they, when you took my heart with you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“Always here but never present.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“It’s a rare gift to see the hidden beauty in things. That kind of optimism is something to be treasured.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“People need to place blame when things go to shit. Makes them feel like they have control over things they don’t.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“Desperation and love make ordinary people do heroic things.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“The ability to control what happens to our flesh and to choose our future is the core of our personhood. Free will is the most precious of our possessions, and to lose it is a tragedy to which there is no equal.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“You're not scared of hurting me. You'd die before you let that happen, and we both know it. You're scared I'll hurt you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“Darkness is drawn to the light, right? And there’s nothing brighter in this town than you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“It's a rare gift to see the hidden beauty in things. That kind of optimism is something to be treasured.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“There was a sacred understanding that we were a combination-free vault. Secrets went in. Nothing came out. We were uncrackable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“He could remember lines and details that most people glanced over and never thought about again.
"It's one of my favorites. Besides, books are easy," he said with a shrug. "They lay out their truth in literal black and white.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“He was the easy one, and it was so easy to love him.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“He was magnetic, which certainly repelled some, but never me. No, he drew me in like gravity, an undeniable, irrefutable force that anchored my world.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“Free will is the most precious of our possessions, and to lose it is a tragedy to which there is no equal. But the compassion we show to those who lack that control—both the very young who have yet to claim it and the very old who face its loss—that is the essence of our humanity.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“he drew me in like gravity, an undeniable, irrefutable force that anchored my world.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I wore my grief like armor, a wall I refused to let crumble or weaken. She wore hers like art, a bold invitation to experience the loss with her, daring you to look away, daring you to forget that he’d lived. He’d loved her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“You’ve held your tongue in the moments I couldn’t, and that’s something to be proud of. Restraint can be so much harder.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I’ll never not want you. Wanting you is all I’ve ever known. You’re in my blood, my bones, my soul.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“This town exists for the dead, not the living. When the younger generations leave, they only come back for funerals—their family’s or eventually their own. Alba is a huge mausoleum, literally funded by tourists who flock here to see the dead things we refuse to let go. We’re all just part of the exhibit. If you’re expecting change or acceptance, don’t. Survival here depends on our ability not to change, to preserve the past. Change and progress are the two things that will kill this town.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“It felt like coming home.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“Only yours. Always yours.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I was relieved that you didn’t. And I knew that eventually I’d be okay. I’d heal. And I did. I put myself back together and made myself whole. But I knew that if your places had changed, and we’d buried you, I wouldn’t have. I couldn’t—I can’t—picture my world without you in it somewhere.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“I missed you every day for ten years, Cam.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things

“She closed the inches between us, resting her hands on my chest, on the heart she didn’t realize only beat because hers did. “I’ve loved you since forever. I’ve been in love with you since I was old enough to understand what that meant. No one else ever had a shot of getting close. How could they, when you took my heart with you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Great and Precious Things