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

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

“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

“There were shipwrecks more graceful than Tella.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

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

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

“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

“Great code didn’t always announce itself. Sometimes it came as a legendary snack. Sometimes it was the hidden patch that kept a whole structure from falling apart. Either way, she’d find it. And figure out what made it work.”
― R.P. Gage, Noetic Gravity

“But judging her based on a moment like that is the same as reading one page from a book and assuming you know the whole story”
― Stephine Garber

“It's just a story, Moana."
"They might say that about us and our journey someday.”
― Keala Kendall, How Far I'll Go

“Whispers of amethyst meadows
Where a phoenix once cried.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“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

“But the best villains are the ones you secretly like”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Is she were Scarlett, someone would have come to her rescue by now. Julian would have probably flown in on a hot-air balloon, and then sprouted wings to soar down and carry her away. Unfortunately Tella wasn't the sort of girl people saved – she was the one they left behind.
But she was also the sort they underestimated.
She reminded herself she was the daughter of two dangerous criminals.
She'd once bet her life on her sister's love.
She'd kissed the Prince of Hearts and still lived.
These Fates would not kill her tonight.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I hate to break your heart, but I think of girls the way I imagine you think of ball gowns; it's never a good idea to wear the same one more than once."
...
"What a coincidence, that's the same way I see young men.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“She should have known better than to think Death wouldn't haunt her after she'd escaped. Tella was amazing; of course Death would want to keep her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Batman had the Batmobile, but the real Dark Knight would’ve loved an AI car that thinks faster than the Joker. – AIinCars”
― AIinCars

“He told me he's seeing someone. When this prompted no response, he added: Apparently she's thirty-six. She's separated from her husband

From the living room, a cackle of laughter. And her voice saying: You never told me your brother was such a legend.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Zac Posen, The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business