Legendary Quotes

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― Joan of Arc

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

“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

“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

“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: "With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” ("The postman always rings twice")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“What's so dangerous about my arms?' he murmured.
'For me, everything.”
― 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

“The air tasted like wonder. Like candied butterfly wings caught in sugared spiderwebs, and drunken peaches coated in luck.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

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

“You're the most beautiful liar I've ever seen.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary, Legendary

“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 out.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“You know,' Tella mused, 'if I didn't hate you, I might actually enjoy your company.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“There were miniature fruit trees growing chocolate-dipped plumbs and brown-sugar-glazed peaches. Wedges of cheese peeking out of miniature treasure chests made of pastry. Upside-down turtle shells filled with soup. Finger sandwiches shaped like actual fingers. Colourful plates of salted pink and red radishes. Water with lavendar bubbles, and peach-coloured wine with berries at the bottom of the glass.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Every good story needs a villain.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“you're the most beautiful liar i've ever seen”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Women and men with bodies covered in feathers and heads crowned with tiny curved horns dangled from the ceiling, twirling and spinning around thick sheets of gold or magenta silk that hung like massive party ribbons. Below them, performers in costumes made of fur, more feathers and paint slathered over skin, prowled and crawled as if they were wild chimeras escaped from another world. Tella saw performers dressed to look like tigers with dragon wings, horses with forked tails, snakes with lion manes, and wolves with ram horns, who growled and nipped and sometimes licked at the hells of guests. There were a few low balconies where shirtless men with wings as large as angels' and fallen stars pushed grinning couples back and forth on giant swings hanging from canopies of thorns and flowers.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Her searching gaze wove past actors on stilts, covered in cream and chestnut fur, and men decorated to look like swans with fangs, rowing upside-down polka-dot umbrellas through flower-covered streams that led toward the center of the ballroom.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

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“There were miniature fruit trees growing chocolate-dipped plumbs and brown-sugar-glazed peaches. Wedges of cheese peeking out of miniature treasure chests made of pastry. Upside-down turtle shells filled with soup. Finger sandwiches shaped like actual fingers. Colourful plates of salted pink and red radishes. Water with lavender bubbles, and peach-coloured wine with berries at the bottom of the glass.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Do you remember my telling you R’s story?”
“The one about the man who faked his own death?”
“No, the one about the man who worked for the local council and used an entire year’s budget to construct a landing strip for small planes—on which, of course, no small plane ever landed.”
“I remember. He planned the whole thing when he was a kid. His classmates testified, saying that back then he would spend all day making paper planes.”
“That’s the one. Now, think: if that had happened in a city, how long would everybody have been telling the story?”
“Weeks.”
“And if it had happened in a town?”
“Months.”
“And if it had happened in small town?”
“Years.”
― María José Ferrada, How to Order the Universe

“Widespread legend is to think you are legend.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Widespread legend is to think you are a legend.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Seize the moment, because one silly act can create a legacy, and also birth a legend.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Legacies are footprints of legends who walked among men.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Why settle for the ordinary when you have what it takes to be legendary?”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“If you’ve ever been taken to court over something you’ve written, you’re a legend.

If you write something legendary enough to keep you out of court, you’re powerful.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Everyone had believed Cadsuane Melaidhrin dead somewhere in retirement until she reappeared at the start of the Aiel War, and a good many sisters probably wished her truly in her grave. Cadsuane was a legend, a most uncomfortable thing to have alive and staring at you. Half the tales about her came close to impossibility, while the rest were beyond it, even among those that had proof.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“If you really wanna live big,
don't ask yourself,
where'll you be in five years;
ask instead,
where'll you be in 500 years?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“and scarlett cried. she cried for the horrors he had been, and she cried for the wonders that he could have been instead.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“he looked like the ending of a doomed love story”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“i can't say that i understand love, or that I'm very good at it, because I've never loved anyone before. but I love everything about you, donatella dragna. everything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale