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Help requires trust," said Kell. "Hardly," countered Holland. "Only mutual interest. -- V.e Schwab
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he was left with the words going sour on his tongue. -- V.e Schwab
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My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird."
Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time. -- V.e Schwab
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Sometimes you had to pretend, everyone knew that. Pretend to be happy. Pretend to be brave. Pretend to be strong. If you pretended long enough, it eventually came true. Pretending -- V.e Schwab
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I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking for one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stairs divide you. -- V.e Schwab
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We can't all turn blood and whispers into weapons. -- V.e Schwab
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I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I'm more than capable of multitasking -- V.e Schwab
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I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It's hardly an arsenal. -- V.e Schwab
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All of them screamed by the end. -- V.e Schwab
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Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for the control. The act of taking, breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. -- V.e Schwab
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Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will. -- V.e Schwab
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I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled. -- V.e Schwab
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!' -- V.e Schwab
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But what stops one from committing sins, if they have nothing to fear?" Kell shrugged. "I've seen people sin in the name of god, and in the name of magic. People misuse their higher powers, no matter what form they take. -- V.e Schwab
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Are you ready ?" she asked, spinning the chamber.
Kell gazed through the gate at the waiting castle. "No."
At that, she offered him the sharpest edge of a grin.
"Good," she said. "The ones who think they're ready always end up dead. -- V.e Schwab
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Whenever she felt the weight of those bonds, she wished she could take her sharpest knife and cut them free, carve out the part of her that wanted, that cared, that warmed at the feeling -- V.e Schwab
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Do you know what makes you weak?" said Holland. "You've never had to be strong. You've never had to try. You've never had to fight. And you've certainly never had to fight for your life. -- V.e Schwab
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I put my life into His hands." "Well," said Victor, earnestly, "let's hope He gives it back. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking. -- V.e Schwab
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Sure I do," countered Lila cheerfully. "There's Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London," she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. "See? I'm a fast learner. -- V.e Schwab
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A low whistle behind him as Alucard appeared at the entrance.
'Picking out a gift?' asked the captain.
'No.'
'Good, then take this'. He dropped a ring into Kell's hand.
Kell frowned. 'I'm flattered, but I think you're asking the wrong brother. -- V.e Schwab
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the gravity of want drew Sydney back. She couldn't break the orbit. -- V.e Schwab
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men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft. -- V.e Schwab
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My life is mine to spend," she said. "And I will not spend it here, no matter how nice your city is, or how much safer it might be. We had a deal, Kell. And now you have Tieren to guard your story and heal your brother. I'm of no use to him. Let me be of use to you. -- V.e Schwab
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Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on."
Calla raised a brow. "You do not think Master Kell knows how? -- V.e Schwab
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It does nothing to dwell on what's been taken from you. Nothing. -- V.e Schwab
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I am going to let you keep your mind," said Athos. "Do you know why?" The blades tip bit in, and Beloc gasped. "So I can watch the war play in your eyes every time your body obeys my will instead of yours. -- V.e Schwab
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Love and loss," he said, "are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be. -- V.e Schwab
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And then the door burst open.
Alucard stood in the doorway, soaking wet, as if he'd just been dumped in the sea, or the sea had been dumped over him. "Stop fucking with the ship. -- V.e Schwab
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Kell stared at her, at a loss. Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and a life was a thing that could always be lost. -- V.e Schwab
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Are you as famous in your world as Kell is here?"
Lila thought of the wanted posters lining her London. "Not for the same reasons. -- V.e Schwab
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Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick. -- V.e Schwab
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It was then she realized that she wasn't a ghost, or a god. She was a monster. -- V.e Schwab
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Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I."
"And that doesn't frighten you?"
Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it. -- V.e Schwab
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Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again. Caring didn't break you clean. It was a bone that didn't set, a cut that wouldn't close. -- V.e Schwab
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I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify me. And the idea of you walking away again, vanishing from my life, that terrifies me most of all. -- V.e Schwab
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One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you. -- V.e Schwab
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SYDNEY Clarke died on a cool March day. It was just before lunch, and it was all Serena's fault. -- V.e Schwab
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It wasn't a good-bye, not really.
What was the word for parting?
Anoshe.
That was it.
Until another day. -- V.e Schwab
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Delilah Bard - always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate - was running as fast as she could. Hold -- V.e Schwab
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She straightened. "You tried to seduce me, for information."
"You can't hold that against me forever."
"It was last night."
"Well I was running out of options, and I figured it was worth a shot."
Lila rolled her eyes. "You really know how to make a girl feel special. -- V.e Schwab
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You're still mad at me." She straightened. "You tried to seduce me, for information." "You can't hold that against me forever." "It was last night. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch. -- V.e Schwab
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Barron's kindness was like a curse, because she knew she had done nothing to deserve it. -- V.e Schwab
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You want me to ask you why you left? Why you chose the open sea over my bed? A criminal's brand over my touch? I didn't ask you, Alucard, because I don't want to hear them [your excuses] -- V.e Schwab
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There are no good men in this game. -- V.e Schwab
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Three Antari get on a boat... -- V.e Schwab
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment. -- V.e Schwab
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My greatest fear in life isn't dying. It's being the source of someone else's suffering. -- V.e Schwab
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It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.
And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. -- V.e Schwab
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Rhy watched his brother move toward her as naturally as if the world had simply tipped. For Kell, apparently, it had -- V.e Schwab
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Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the time those points were places. But sometimes, rarely, they were people. -- V.e Schwab
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Serena hadn't told Sydney to go home. She hadn't told her to run away. She told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.

Specifically, safe had become Victor. -- V.e Schwab
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You want to live," he told his reflection. His reflection looked unconvinced. -- V.e Schwab
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Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world - in his world - it was hard to imagine her being so slight. In his mind, she was made of stone. -- V.e Schwab
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In addition to Tieren's list, she'd nicked a flask of something called "sleep sweet" and a tiny ampule marked "seer's tea," but she'd left the rest, feeling quite impressed with her restraint. -- V.e Schwab
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To my son, the crown prince of Arnes, when it is time know that a father lives for his son, but a king lives for his people. -- V.e Schwab
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You can't kill me today," she called back. "I'm late for class. -- V.e Schwab
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes. -- V.e Schwab
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He begged Angie but the words were cut short by the strap and the dial turning up again and the sound in the air like cracking ice and shredding paper and static. -- V.e Schwab
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Yes, I killed him, Serena. He was very dead. -- V.e Schwab
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Delilah Bard had a way of finding trouble. She'd always thought it was better than letting trouble find her, but floating in the ocean in a two-person skiff with no oars, no view of land, and no real resources save the ropes binding her wrists, she was beginning to reconsider. The -- V.e Schwab
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Ah, there you are, Bard," came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.
"Saints, is that a dress you're in? The crew will never believe it."
"You've got to be kidding me," growled Kell. -- V.e Schwab
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Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black. -- V.e Schwab
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There were moments when Lila wondered how the hell she'd gotten here. Which steps - and missteps - she'd taken. A year ago she'd been a thief in another London. A month ago she'd been a pirate, sailing on the open seas. A week ago she'd been a magician in the Essen Tasch. And now she was this. -- V.e Schwab
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His heart slowed, winding down like a music box, a season at its end.
The last air left Holland's lungs.
And then, at last, the world breathed in. -- V.e Schwab
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Sometimes he worried that the coat had a mind of its own. The only other person who'd ever managed to find what they wanted in its pockets was Lila. He'd never managed to find out how she'd done that. Traitorous coat. -- V.e Schwab
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My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I. -- V.e Schwab
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Kell frowned deeply. It is amazing, thought Lila, that he doesn't have more wrinkles. -- V.e Schwab
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The calm troubled him; the fact that the physical absence of pain could elicit such a mental absence of panic was at once unnerving and rather fascinating. -- V.e Schwab
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It was like standing outside of life, stuck in a too still world that scared her more than she would ever admit. -- V.e Schwab
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Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell. -- V.e Schwab
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It doesn't matter what someone is. Only what they think they are. -- V.e Schwab
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A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son. -- V.e Schwab
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The rich strutted around, assuming they'd be safe, so long as they stayed in the good parts of town. But Lila knew there were no good parts. Only smart parts and stupid parts, and she was quick enough to know which one to play. -- V.e Schwab
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And while that seemed to be true, Holland knew that assumptions were made to take the place of facts, -- V.e Schwab
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I love you, Kell, but I had no interest in matching tattoos. -- V.e Schwab
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them. -- V.e Schwab
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little do these people know I am just a pawn" spat Kell -- V.e Schwab
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Kell had a strange feeling about the girl, but he pushed it aside. -- V.e Schwab
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But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest? -- V.e Schwab
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The voices started up again, but they couldn't stop her now. The waiting was over. There was no turning back, and that simple fact made it easier to go forward. The -- V.e Schwab
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Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila knew what it felt like to want something, knew the way it whispered and sang and screamed in your bones. And this felt like that, but wasn't. An impostor of longing. -- V.e Schwab
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Don't get yourself killed."
"I'll do my best," said Kell, and then he was going.
"And come back," added Rhy.
Kell paused. "Don't worry," he said. "I will. Once I've seen it."
"Seen what?" asked Rhy.
Kell smiled. "Everything. -- V.e Schwab
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And Ulysses stopped up his ears against the siren's song," recited Victor, pulling the plugs from his own ears as Serena collapsed to the dirt lot, "for it was death. -- V.e Schwab
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Those who ally themselves with monsters are little better than monsters themselves. -- V.e Schwab
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Walking away had been easy.
Not looking back was harder. -- V.e Schwab
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I loved him the way the moon loves the stars - that is what we say, when a person fills the world with light. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila backed away toward the curtain. "Do you just... stand here until I need you?"
The woman smiled and dug a volume from a pocket. "I have a book."
"Let me guess, a religious text?"
"Actually," said Ister, perching on the low couch, "it's about pirates."
Lila smiled. -- V.e Schwab
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She'd been betrayed, shot, saved, healed, hurt, healed again, forced to resurrect two men, only to witness the reassassination of one of them. -- V.e Schwab
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This isn't divinity, Eli. It's science and chance. -- V.e Schwab
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Death takes something with it. What did it take from you?" Eli lifted the gun again. "My fear. -- V.e Schwab
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Serena hated to admit how easy and addictive it was, getting her way, even when it made her miserable. -- V.e Schwab
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Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. -- V.e Schwab
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The earth beneath your feet does not care you will be king. Nor the water in your cup. Nor the air you breathe. You must speak to them as equal, or even better, as supplicant. -- V.e Schwab
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She'd ben teasing, but he clearly wasn't. -- V.e Schwab
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Standing there on display was painful enough.
Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing. -- V.e Schwab
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Stay with me," said Kell. "Stay with me. Rhy. Listen to my voice." "Such a nice voice," said Rhy quietly, his head lolling forward. "Rhy. -- V.e Schwab
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You remember me, and I'll remember you, and that way we won't be forgotten." "That's shit logic, Vic." "It's perfect. -- V.e Schwab
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The night Kate Harker decided to burn down the school chapel, she wasn't angry or drunk. She was desperate. -- V.e Schwab
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Easy meant dangerous. Easy led to mistakes. -- V.e Schwab
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To clever plans,' said Kell, toasting his brother. 'And dashing princes.'
'To masked magicians,' said Rhy, swiping the wine.
'To mad ideas.'
'To the Essen Tasch.'
'Wouldn't it be amazing,' murmured Rhy later, when the bottle was empty, 'if we got away with it? -- V.e Schwab
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Are you sure about him?" she asked.

"I am," he said, his voice so steady she wanted to lean against it. -- V.e Schwab
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There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all. -- V.e Schwab
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Her hand slid beneath his shirt with all the practiced grace of a thief. But this time she wanted him to feel her touch, her palms gliding over his ribs and around his back, fingertips digging into her shoulder blades. -- V.e Schwab
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Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halves of a whole. If anyone tried to part them, they'd both unravel. -- V.e Schwab
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You were dead," said Victor. "Now, thanks to my friend Sydney, you're a bit less dead. -- V.e Schwab
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It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn't know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor. -- V.e Schwab
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Seeping in through his clothes and his skin until it was gone - or not gone. Absorbed. -- V.e Schwab
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(he thought it particularly foolish to endow inmates with a detailed sense of the positions of vital organs, but there you go), -- V.e Schwab
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds. -- V.e Schwab
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it meant she was broken the way Serena was broken, the way Eli was broken. Missing pieces. -- V.e Schwab
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Strength and weakness are tangled things," the Aven Essen had said. "They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power. -- V.e Schwab
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THUD.
Thud.
Thud.
The shovel hit wood, and stuck. -- V.e Schwab
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We're all here for a reason, Bard. Some reasons are just bigger than others. -- V.e Schwab
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There are many shadows in the night. -- V.e Schwab
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Names are important," she said, twirling the cord. "Mine is Ojka, and I have orders to keep you out." Beyond the doors, Kell let out a scream of frustration, a sob of pain. "My name is Lila Bard," she answered, drawing her favorite knife, "and I don't give a damn." Ojka -- V.e Schwab
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I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself."
"I apologize for shooting you in the leg." said Lila. "I was myself entirely. -- V.e Schwab
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I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives. -- V.e Schwab
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Dammit, Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire." Lila -- V.e Schwab
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She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn't that simple. Maybe it wasn't a matter of what she didn't have, of what she wasn't, but what she was. -- V.e Schwab
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What do you want to know?"
Lila returned to the chair and leaned forward, her elbows on her knees. "Everything -- V.e Schwab
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There was probably a spell, but Lila didn't know it, and she was too tired to summon air or wood or anything else, so instead she simply summoned the last of her strength and kicked the door in. -- V.e Schwab
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger. -- V.e Schwab
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Sad the holidays are over?
Hardly, said Victor. -- V.e Schwab
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He'd never been much of a drinker. Never thought the during was much worth the after. -- V.e Schwab
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Everything starts with belief. With faith. -- V.e Schwab
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Don't kill the messenger," said Lila when the two were gone, "but I think the princess is trying to get into your"-- her gaze trailed Kell up and down-- "good graces. -- V.e Schwab
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And Ulysses stopped his ears against the siren's song for it was death. -- V.e Schwab
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It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. -- V.e Schwab
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A small prickle ran through Victor when he spotted her, the voyeuristic thrill of seeing someone before they see you, of being able to simply watch. -- V.e Schwab
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She went back to middle school, and tried not to touch anything dead. -- V.e Schwab
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Spotted with stale blood, but with her hypothesis confirmed. Sydney Clarke could raise the dead. -- V.e Schwab
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I hope Victor hurts him," she said cheerfully. "A lot." "Jesus. Three days and you're already taking after him. -- V.e Schwab
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And this girl, this monster, had a dangerous, complicated gift. -- V.e Schwab
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Don't you have enough knives?" he grumbled, his lip thrust forward in a pout.
Lila's smile sharpened. "No such thing," she said, wrapping her fingers around the blade. -- V.e Schwab
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It doesn't bother you, that everyone believes different things?" "Why should it?" he asked. "We all believe the same thing really, we simply give it different names. Hardly a crime." Lila -- V.e Schwab
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And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to make them where there were none. It's not about knowing the rules. It's about knowing how to break them. -- V.e Schwab
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Would see. Hope, faith, change: these were fragile things, and they had to be tended. -- V.e Schwab
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Now he was going numb, and that scared him more than pain because it meant he might just...fade. Fade right into death without noticing. -- V.e Schwab
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This new calm was becoming unsettling. Victor struggled to assess it. -- V.e Schwab
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You know, Miss Bard, there is such a thing as being sharp enough to cut yourself. -- V.e Schwab
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The memory caught him like a blow. Lila. -- V.e Schwab
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Thud. Thud. Thud. -- V.e Schwab
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. -- V.e Schwab
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She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying.
She was still a mystery.
And he loved her. -- V.e Schwab
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The name of the place was Is Vesnara Shast, which translated to The Wandering Road. What Lila didn't know, not until she saw Lenos's unease, was that the Arnesian word for road - shast - was the same as the word for soul. -- V.e Schwab
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You're the hero...," she said, finding his eyes,"...of your own story anyway. -- V.e Schwab
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I feel wonderful. I feel like roses and sunshine and glitter. -- V.e Schwab
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How did you lose it?" he asked. Lila frowned. "Lose what?" His weathered fingers drifted up beneath her chin. "Your eye. -- V.e Schwab
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it. -- V.e Schwab
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Magic made things simple. Sometimes, thought Kell, it made things too simple. -- V.e Schwab
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away. -- V.e Schwab
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Mother... fucker... -- V.e Schwab
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Bad ideas are my favorite kind. -- V.e Schwab
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There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." "I know." He sounded sad when he said it. -- V.e Schwab
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What a waste of life, to stand around and think so much on every little thing. -- V.e Schwab
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After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you. -- V.e Schwab
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He was taught early that magic reclaimed magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lasted. Nothing remained. -- V.e Schwab
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The steps to solving a problem, from elementary math to breaking out of a police station, remained the same. -- V.e Schwab
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Maxim kept grudges like scars. They faded by degrees but always left a mark. Kell -- V.e Schwab
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Everyone has a mix of humanity and magic in them. -- V.e Schwab
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A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila's world may believe in Heaven and Hell, but his believed in dust. He was taught early that magic reclaimed magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lasted. Nothing remained. Growing -- V.e Schwab
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She felt frozen all over again but in a different way. It wasn't icy water. It was fear. -- V.e Schwab
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I've found that watching is the quickest way to learn, and the safest way to stay alive." Alucard -- V.e Schwab
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He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Athos smiled, victorious. -- V.e Schwab
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He didn't want to rule the world. He only wanted to save it. Athos -- V.e Schwab
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I'm sorry I left. I'm sorry. But I'm here now, so you can't die," he said, his voice finally breaking. "Don't you see how rude that would be, when I've come so far? -- V.e Schwab
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Luc?" rasped Rhy.
"I'm here," answered Alucard. "I'm here. Stay with me."
He tried to speak, but his heart slammed against his ribs as if trying to break through. -- V.e Schwab
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I keep wondering, if all of it is my fault. Where does it start, Tieren? With Holland's choice, or with mine?"
The priest looked at him, eyes bright within his tired face, and shook his head. For once, the old man didn't seem to have the answer. -- V.e Schwab
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It seemed like a good plan, or at least, like the best of several bad ones. But -- V.e Schwab
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Why anyone would ever pretend to be weak was beyond her. Lila -- V.e Schwab
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Clean was not skin deep when it came to killing. -- V.e Schwab
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Life is chaos. Time is order. -- V.e Schwab
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This is why I drink." Lenos -- V.e Schwab
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We could be dead,' said Eli.
'That's a risk everyone takes by living. -- V.e Schwab
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Eli, who believed in God and had a monster inside just like Victor, but knew how to hide it better. -- V.e Schwab
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You're not listening," he said, exasperated. "No," she snapped. "You're not." She licked the blood from her lips. "I don't need saving. -- V.e Schwab
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Power in Balance. Balance in Power. -- V.e Schwab
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No," he said. "That's not magic, Lila. That's just murder. -- V.e Schwab
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Are you afraid yet? Are you afraid? -- V.e Schwab
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Mysteries are always more exciting than truths. -- V.e Schwab
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Sleep is for the rich and the bored. -- V.e Schwab
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Nature is made of cycles, and we are made of nature. What is unnatural is believing in an infallible man and a nice place waiting in the sky." George -- V.e Schwab
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People either stole to stay alive or to feel alive. She had to imagine that they ran away for the same reasons. Lila -- V.e Schwab
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Victor couldn't help but wonder if becoming an EO had hollowed her out the way it had him, had all of them - -- V.e Schwab
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You asked me if I ever wanted to believe in something. I do. I want to believe in this. I want to believe that there's more. -- V.e Schwab
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Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a cost. -- V.e Schwab
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Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first. -- V.e Schwab
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He wished for the first time in his life that he believed in God. -- V.e Schwab
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If he weren't currently in the back of a cop car, he would have wanted to make a thesis note. -- V.e Schwab
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No one suffers as beautifully as you do. -- V.e Schwab
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If anyone could make the strange seem ordinary, the impossible look easy, it was Delilah Bard -- V.e Schwab
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Oh yes, your relationship with Miss Bard is positively ordinary."
"Be quiet."
"Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship. -- V.e Schwab
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Pain and fear are inextricable- but pain has multiple forms. -- V.e Schwab
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Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power. -- V.e Schwab
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Where was the bloodied boy who'd collapsed on her bedroom floor?

Where was the tortured magician, veins turning black as he fought a talisman's pull?

Where was the sad, lonely royal who'd stood on the dock and watched her walk away? -- V.e Schwab
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Kings need not raise their voices to be heard. -- V.e Schwab
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People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold. -- V.e Schwab
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Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. -- V.e Schwab
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If magic coursed through everyone and everything, was that what it felt like when it found itself again? -- V.e Schwab
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The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires -- V.e Schwab
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Most girls covet dresses."
"I am not most girls. -- V.e Schwab
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Kell looked her in the eyes. "You will be trapped there," he said. "When it is over."
Lila shivered. "Perhaps," she said, "or perhaps I will go with you to the end of the world. After all, you've made me curious. -- V.e Schwab
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She dragged her head up and saw Kell standing in the road, the strange magical boy in his black coat, looking breathless and angry. Lila couldn't believe it. -- V.e Schwab
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He listened to the shhk of metal sliding home, then turned to find Lila waiting, her back purposely to the tavern, as if her present were already her past. -- V.e Schwab
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Even glass can be strong," said Rhy, "if it is thick enough. -- V.e Schwab
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She felt like a god. She dreamed of people who could fight back. Of wills strong enough to resist her. -- V.e Schwab
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Well, when you wonder something," said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe. -- V.e Schwab
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Sydney didn't trust stillness. She had come to believe that it was a bad thing. A wrong, unnatural, dead thing. -- V.e Schwab
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Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. "Holy shit. -- V.e Schwab
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Killing you," he said. It was almost freeing, not being able to lie. -- V.e Schwab
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What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy.
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the same time.
"We're being thorough," added Rhy. -- V.e Schwab
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Magic was a truly beautiful disease. -- V.e Schwab
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His eyes were dark with pain and worry, -- V.e Schwab
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Of all the ways to die, only a fool chooses pride. -- V.e Schwab
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Hesitation is the death of advantage, -- V.e Schwab
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It had been harder to make them dead again. -- V.e Schwab
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And bring me back that knife," she added. "It's my favorite one."
Kell shook his head, and freed the blade from where it had lodged in the wood. "They're all your favorite. -- V.e Schwab
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Eli screamed, and the sound made Victor feel good. -- V.e Schwab
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You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands." "When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong." Eli -- V.e Schwab
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A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet -- V.e Schwab
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection. -- V.e Schwab
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Darkness.
Everywhere.
The kind that stretched.
For seconds and hours and days.
And then.
Slowly.
The darkness lightened into dusk. -- V.e Schwab
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I like to play with tropes. -- V.e Schwab
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You think that if you die, and manage to come back, you'll turn into what, one of the X-Men? -- V.e Schwab
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And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor's turn, to get into Eli's head and do some ruining. -- V.e Schwab
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Dangerous. Reckless. Foolish. Mad. The words were beginning to feel more like badges of pride than blows. Downstairs, -- V.e Schwab
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Lila smiled at that, one of those smiles that made Kell profoundly nervous. The kind of smile usually followed by a weapon. -- V.e Schwab
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He might be mentally cut out for a desk job, but he doubted he'd fit behind most desks. -- V.e Schwab
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For the ones who dream of stranger worlds. -- V.e Schwab
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Good," she said. "The ones who think they're ready always end up dead." Kell -- V.e Schwab
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But time isn't the same for the mad and the blind. -- V.e Schwab
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Whatever I am, she thought, pressing her hand to the wall, let it be enough. -- V.e Schwab
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Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that. -- V.e Schwab
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Sydney tugged off her shoes by the door and went to scrub the grave dirt and the lingering feel of the dead from beneath her fingernails. -- V.e Schwab
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Show the Sarows some respect, -- V.e Schwab
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Everyone wants to be king," said Vortalis. "Not me," said Holland. "Well, then you're either a liar or a fool. -- V.e Schwab
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The strong sometimes gave birth to the weak, or the other way around -- V.e Schwab
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Only fools are certain. -- V.e Schwab
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I apologize for shooting you in the leg," said Lila. "I was entirely myself. -- V.e Schwab
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When this is over," she said, tucking the watch into a fold of her cloak. "I want to be the one to slit his throat. -- V.e Schwab
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He'd seen enough nature specials on the common room set to know that prey had eyes on the sides of their head, were constantly on guard, but predators' eyes were forward-facing, close together, unafraid. -- V.e Schwab
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One adventure at a time. -- V.e Schwab
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As Athera. To grow.

As Pyrata. To burn.

As Illumae. To light.

As Orense. To open.

As Anase. To dispel.

As Hasari. To heal.

As Travars. To Travel. -- V.e Schwab
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Whatever I am, let it be enough -- V.e Schwab
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If you decide to leave- when you decide to leave- don't do it without saying good-bye. -- V.e Schwab
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Purity without balance is its own corruption. -- V.e Schwab
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You look more ready to storm a city than seduce a man. -- V.e Schwab
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The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself. -- V.e Schwab
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Victor wished he could trade abilities with Eli. But first he wiped the blood from the counter, and poured himself another drink. -- V.e Schwab
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Lila Bard might have been a thief but she wasn't a beggar. And -- V.e Schwab
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A respectable prison is still a prison. -- V.e Schwab
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A life worth having is a life worth taking. -- V.e Schwab
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out. -- V.e Schwab
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The glorious quiet that filled the air as his broken bones healed and his torn skin closed, and he knew that God approved. -- V.e Schwab
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You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story. -- V.e Schwab
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The ability comes naturally," replied Kell. "The proficiency takes work. Just as I explained during every one of your lessons." The -- V.e Schwab
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Because too little of something is just as dangerous as too much. -- V.e Schwab
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It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck. -- V.e Schwab
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What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner? -- V.e Schwab
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Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic. -- V.e Schwab
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Well, the world is full of surprises. And shadow kings. And curses. Coffee? -- V.e Schwab
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It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope. And -- V.e Schwab
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He was, after all, Antari.
And Antari could speak to blood. To life. To magic itself. -- V.e Schwab
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The worst part of going numb was that it took away everything but this, the smothering need to hurt, to break, to kill, pouring over him like a thick blanket of syrup until he panicked and brought the physical sensations back. -- V.e Schwab
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What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth? -- V.e Schwab
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Are you afraid yet? he would ask when the floor was slick with Eli's blood. Are you afraid? -- V.e Schwab
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We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do. -- V.e Schwab
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There was a time he would have cared about the stain, but it was gone, that life. -- V.e Schwab
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The only relic from another life. -- V.e Schwab
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He sunk the shovel into the cold earth with a satisfying thud. -- V.e Schwab
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Me?" she said, pushing open the doors. "I'd choose clever. -- V.e Schwab
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I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. -- V.e Schwab
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Everyone's immortal until they're not. -- V.e Schwab
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Dead men can't hold grudges. -- V.e Schwab
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Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you. -- V.e Schwab
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She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest. -- V.e Schwab
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The owner of the Stone's Throw was built like a brick wall - if a brick wall decided to grow a beard - tall -- V.e Schwab