“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“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, quote from Caraval
“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or performance. It's the closest you'll ever find yourself magic in this world.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“No one is truly honest. Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“It's better this way, sister. There's more to life than staying safe...”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you’ll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it’s all a game.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“The boy who’d saved her from drowning in more ways than one.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“What happens beyond this gate may frighten or excite you, but don’t let any of it trick you. We will try to convince you it’s real, but all of it is a performance. A world built of make-believe. So while we want you to get swept away, be careful of being swept too far away. Dreams that come true can be beautiful, but they can also turn into nightmares when people won’t wake up.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Every touch created colors she had never seen. Colors as soft as velvet and as sharp as sparks that turned into stars.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Sometimes it's easier to have someone else wound you.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Scarlett was not fond of fate. She liked to believe if she were good, good things would happen. Fate left her feeling powerless, and hopeless, and with an overall feeling of lessness. To her, fate seemed like a larger, omnipotent version of her father, stealing her choices and controlling her life without any regard for her feelings. Fate meant that nothing she did mattered.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle. It”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Inside the house, violin music, richer than the darkest chocolate, started playing. It seeped outside and whispered to Scarlett as Julian’s smile turned seductive, all shameless curves and immoral promises. An invitation to places that proper young ladies didn’t think about, let alone visit.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“It is not fate, it is simply the future observing that which we crave most. Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“I think this cut might need stiches,” Scarlett said, yet as her cloth wiped away the blood it revealed a smooth line of unmarked, unbroken flesh. “Wait, I don’t see a wound.”
“There’s not one. But that feels really good.” Julian moaned and arched his back.
“You scoundrel!”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“He kissed her once more, gently and deliberately, reassuring her without words that he had no intentions of letting her go.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“But Scarlett had already been broken. For years her father tore her down. Over and over, she had let him. She’d allowed him to make her feel worthless and powerless. But she was neither of those things. She was done allowing her fear to make her weaker, to eat away at the meat on her bones until she could do nothing but whimper and watch.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“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, quote from Caraval
“She’d once heard emotions and desires fueled the magic that made wishes possible. But either Scarlett didn’t feel enough, or the stories she’d heard about wishes were made of lies.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“Do you always focus on what you're giving up, rather than what you'll be gaining? Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“He’d heard every person gets one impossible wish—just one—if the person wants something more than anything, and they can find a bit of magic to help them along.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“For a moment she could feel his emotions again, as close as if they were her own. Awe mixed with fierce protectiveness, and a thread of pain so intense she wanted to take the hurt from him.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
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“Amardeep has been baptized ‘Raamji’ by MP. I don’t know when he got this weird nickname or why, but it was probably because of his simple, sober nature. Unlike the rest of us at the hostel, he was not at all a night person and his room’s light would go off precisely at 11 p.m. At times, MP, Happy and I used to stand outside”
― Ravinder Singh, quote from I Too Had a Love Story
“Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, quote from In the Night Garden
“The punches you miss are the ones that wear you out. —Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee”
― Benjamin Graham, quote from The Intelligent Investor
“To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he would ever be again to his house in Amherst Avenue.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Empire of the Sun
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”
― Chad Harbach, quote from The Art of Fielding
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