212 Quotes by Stephanie Garber

There was also the Duchess of Dao. Wanted for inland piracy, selling poisons, and seduction. “I didn’t know seduction was a crime,” Tella murmured. “Depends on who you’re trying to seduce.

A beautiful, ridiculous fantasy.

Just because something is real doesn’t mean you believe in it.

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.

And Scarlett cried. She cried for all the horrors he had been, and she cried for the wonders that he could have been instead.

Tella was the most important person in the world to Scarlett, but it always broke Scarlett to know her sister did not feel the same way.

Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don’t get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all.

The count’s residence looked like the beginning of a fairy tale, before the magic had arrived. The gardens were full of curious, well-tended flowers that appeared to have been planted with care. But the house itself was covered in chipping paint, the windows clean but full of cracks, and the crumbling chimneys appeared to be in severe need of repair. Even the long path they followed to the house was covered in fractures.

Sometimes Scarlett felt all of Trisda was under a dome, a large piece of glass that trapped everyone inside while her father looked down, moving – or removing – people if they weren’t in the right places.