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Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones. -- Victoria Schwab
But once you know, you can't go back. Not really. You can carve out someone's memories, but they won't be who they were before. They'll just be full of holes. Given the choice, I'd rather learn to live with what I know. -- Victoria Schwab
No, dearie. I don't need any seeds. And besides, I'm growing moor flowers. Wildflowers." "I didn't know you could, in this soil." "You can't, of course. That's the point. Flowers are freethinking things. They grow where they please. I'd like to see you try and tell a moor flower where to grow. -- Victoria Schwab
What do schools do that for?" he grumbles. "What's the point of summer if they give you homework?"
"Exactly! -- Victoria Schwab
Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces. -- Victoria Schwab
Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good. -- Victoria Schwab
Lying is easy. But it's lonely."
"What do you mean?"
"When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?"
"Nothing," I say.
"Exactly. -- Victoria Schwab
Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back. -- Victoria Schwab
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke. -- Victoria Schwab
You can't be two people. You end up being neither. -- Victoria Schwab
A confession: I am not a good friend. -- Victoria Schwab
t was amazing how easy it was to think in straight lines when he was in motion, even without his violin. -- Victoria Schwab
All he knew was that he was a body in search of motion. -- Victoria Schwab
Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. -- Victoria Schwab
That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief. -- Victoria Schwab
We're a team, Mac," he says. "We'll get through this."
"Which part?" I ask.
He smiles. "All of it."
And I smile back, because I want him to be right. -- Victoria Schwab
You know," he says, "for someone who doesn't like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me. -- Victoria Schwab
The moment I met you, I knew you were different. -- Victoria Schwab
Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found. -- Victoria Schwab
I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got. -- Victoria Schwab
You, Mackenzie Bishop," he says as we hit the landing, "have been a very bad girl."
"How so?"
He rounds the banister at the base of the staircase. "You involved me in a lie! Don't think I didn't catch it. -- Victoria Schwab
Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful. -- Victoria Schwab
The perfectly good car comes with a perfectly dangerous girl. -- Victoria Schwab
Pretty thing," whispered an old woman from a doorway in Maktahm. "Pretty skin. Pretty bones."
"This way, Master," called another.
"Come inside."
"Rest your feet."
"Rest your bones."
"Pretty bones."
"Pretty blood."
"Drink your magic."
"Eat your life."
"Come inside. -- Victoria Schwab
If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around
humans, monsters, heroes, villains
to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. -- Victoria Schwab
And she was *happy*. The kind of happy that smoothed time into still frames. -- Victoria Schwab
We make a good team, Mackenzie Bishop."
"We do." We do, and that is the thing that tempers the heat beneath my skin, checks the flutter of girlish nerves. This is Wesley. My friend. My partner. Maybe one day my Crew. The fear of losing that keeps me in check. -- Victoria Schwab
Fear is a strange thing," he used to say. "It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothing good grows out of fear. -- Victoria Schwab
Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. "What's that on your face?"
The smile vanished. "What?"
"Never mind," she said, laughing. "It's gone. -- Victoria Schwab
And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself ... they didn't know what to make of him. -- Victoria Schwab
You really are like him, your father."
"I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad."
"What does it matter? It's simply true. -- Victoria Schwab
But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable. -- Victoria Schwab
Having something and losing it, it's so much crueler than never having had it. -- Victoria Schwab
I read somewhere," said Kate, "that people are made of stardust."
He dragged his eyes from the sky. "Really?"
"Maybe that's what you're made of. Just like us."
And despite everything, August smiled. -- Victoria Schwab
He manages a sad smile. An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It's a manipulation. -- Victoria Schwab
I will set you free, he says just before he buries the knife in my chest, and I wake up. -- Victoria Schwab
My father taught me how to track, how to read the ground and the trees. He taught me that everything has a language, that if you knew the language, you could make the world talk. The grass and the dirt hold secrets, he'd say. The wind and the water carry stories and warnings. -- Victoria Schwab
Control was all about focus, and he couldn't do that, not with Jess hovering, studying him like a puzzle she could piece back together. She hadn't yet realized that the picture had changed. -- Victoria Schwab
It's not that Mom didn't keep anything, it's that she kept the wrong things. We leave memories on objects we love and cherish, things we use and wear down. -- Victoria Schwab
If you mean a few little things - the exact sound of his voice, the shade of his hair, then okay, yeah. You're going to forget. But Ben isn't those things, you know? He's your brother. He's made up of every moment in his life. You'll never forget all of that. -- Victoria Schwab
His eyes found hers in the dark. They were a storm of blue and grey, at times bright and at others almost colorless. He tipped his head wordlessly in the direction of his chambers, and she followed. -- Victoria Schwab
He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed). -- Victoria Schwab
Alucard snaked an arm possessively around his shoulders and brought his lips to the prince's neck, just below his ear. Rhy actually shivered.
"You are far too familiar with your prince," he warned.
"So you confess it, then?" His brushed his lips against Rhy's throat. "That you are mine. -- Victoria Schwab
He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up. -- Victoria Schwab
There's an empty shelf here with your name and dates?"
"There is. And it was beginning to sound nice. But then I got called in to this meeting. An induction ceremony. Some crazy old man and his granddaughter." He stands, guides me up beside him. "And I don't regret it. Now, go home. -- Victoria Schwab
The shared secret of our second lives hangs between us, not like a weight, but like a lifeline. -- Victoria Schwab
WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch. -- Victoria Schwab
Funny how when we start to tell a secret, we can't stop. Something falls open in us, and the sheer momentum of letting go pushes us on. -- Victoria Schwab
Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate. -- Victoria Schwab
The prince shrugged. Who needs magic when you look this good? -- Victoria Schwab
Her eyes register the darkness beyond the windows, then travel back to the neglected groceries. Something in her sags. And for a moment, I see her. Not the watts-too-bright, smile-till-it-hurts her, but the real one. The mother who lost her little boy. -- Victoria Schwab
Bad magic, Kell had called it.
No, thought Lila now. Clever magic.
And clever was more dangerous than bad any day of the week. -- Victoria Schwab
If Mom was feeling ambitious, she scribbled a small list of items beneath the word, but seeing as her handwriting is virtually illegible, we won't know what's in each box until we actually open it. Like Christmas. Except we already own everything. -- Victoria Schwab
Nods and offers canned monosyables of support ... -- Victoria Schwab
Kell used to feel like a possession. Now he felt like a prisoner. -- Victoria Schwab
My heart sinks. I guess I should be glad he doesn't care, but I'm not. He's supposed to care. Mom cares so much, it's smothering; but that doesn't mean he's allowed to do this, to check out. And suddenly I need him to care. I need him to give me something so I know he's still here, still Dad. -- Victoria Schwab
What if I mess up?"
"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."
"What's that?"
"Stay alive long enough to mess up again. -- Victoria Schwab
He'd made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone -- Victoria Schwab
August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."
She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm? -- Victoria Schwab
Well, there's this new girl who just moved in on floor three. Her family's re-opening the cafe. I hear she likes to lie, and hit people."
"Oh yeah? Well, there's that strange goth guy, the one who's always lurking around Five C."
"Strangely hot in a mysterious way, though, right? -- Victoria Schwab
The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie. -- Victoria Schwab
I just want to know if you're okay, he says, so soft I barely hear it through the static.
I'm not, not at all; but his worry gives me the strength I need to lie. To pull back and smile and tell him I'm fine. -- Victoria Schwab
You're dreaming," said Ilsa in her singsong way. She rested her chin on top of his shoulder, and squinted. "What is that in your eyes?"
"What?"
"That speck. Right there. Is it fear?"
He found her gaze in the mirror. "Maybe," he admitted. -- Victoria Schwab
Victor didn't want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly. -- Victoria Schwab
I am Delilah Bard, she thought, as the ropes cut into her skin. I am a thief and a pirate and a traveler. I have set foot in three different worlds, and lived. I have shed the blood of royals and held magic in my hands. -- Victoria Schwab
Nobody gets to stay the same. -- Victoria Schwab
I do want it. I want you to stay. Time and disease are taking you from me. You've told me, made it clear, this is the only way I can keep you close. I will not lose that. -- Victoria Schwab
Not much of a morning person?"
"Such a useless time of day," she said, dragging herself upright and taking the cup. "Can't sleep. Can't steal. -- Victoria Schwab
Caring about someone is scary, Mac. I know. Especially when you've lost people. It's easy to think it's not worth it. It's easy to think life will hurt less if you don't. But it's not life unless you care about it. -- Victoria Schwab
There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead. -- Victoria Schwab
Her world became a heavy beat, a rhythm, an angry voice. -- Victoria Schwab
He wasn't quite sure when he made it, somewhere between turning on the shower and stepping in, perhaps, or pouring the milk and adding the cereal, or maybe a dozen tiny decisions had added up like letters until they finally made a word, a phrase, a sentence. -- Victoria Schwab
You are crazy," he says. "You are a crazy, amazing girl. And you scare the hell out of me." I smile. -- Victoria Schwab
But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off. -- Victoria Schwab
For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang. -- Victoria Schwab
Listen to me," he said, pulling off his coat. "You need to stay awake."
She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. "What's so funny?"
"You're a really shitty monster, August Flynn. -- Victoria Schwab
The world isn't that black-and-white, is it? It doesn't all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive. -- Victoria Schwab
If these men worshipped anything, they worshipped magic, which she supposed would be heresy back in Grey London. But then again, Christians worshipped an old man in the sky, and if Lila had to say which one seemed more real at the moment, she'd have to side with magic. -- Victoria Schwab
What a mess. Truths are messy and lies are messy, and I don't care what Da said, it's impossible to cut a person into pielike pieces, neat and tidy. -- Victoria Schwab
There you go again," murmured Rhy, leaning his head on Kell's shoulder. "You never let me fall. -- Victoria Schwab
Four years of service, and the Archive is still so full of secrets - some big, like altering; some small, like this. The more of them I learn, the more I realize how little I know, and the more I wonder about the things I have been told. The rules I have been taught. -- Victoria Schwab
It's okay to not be okay," she says. "When you've been through things - whatever those things are - and you don't allow yourself to not be okay, then you only make it worse. Our problems will tear us apart if we try to ignore them. They demand attention because they need it. -- Victoria Schwab
I'd rather be able to see the truth than live a lie. -- Victoria Schwab
I suppose it doesn't matter how they get out. All that matters is they do. And when they do, they must be found. They must go back. -- Victoria Schwab
but there was still something about Freddie. Something . . . disarming, infectious, familiar. In an auditorium full of stares, his was the gaze she felt. -- Victoria Schwab
I feel connected to you, and I couldn't bear the thought of that being severed. Lost. -- Victoria Schwab
This was a chance for Rhy to shine, not only as a jewel, but as a sword. He had always been a symbol of wealth. He wanted to be a symbol of power. Magic was power, of course, but it wasn't the only kind. Rhy told himself he could still be strong without it. -- Victoria Schwab
It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends. -- Victoria Schwab
But if you weren't a Keeper ... if you lost someone and you thought they were gone forever, and then you learned you could get them back, you'd be there with the rest of them, clawing at the walls to get through. -- Victoria Schwab
Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces of me with them. -- Victoria Schwab
Kate wondered who was more addicted to their high, serial killers or coffee addicts. -- Victoria Schwab
When I was small, the wind sang me lullabies. Lilting, humming, high-pitched things, filling the space around me so that even when all seemed quiet, it wasn't. This is a wind I have lived with. -- Victoria Schwab
These days, everyone left a digital mark. All day, every day at Colton, people were snapping photos, recording every mundane moment as if it deserved to be preserved, remembered. -- Victoria Schwab
If she'd learned anything from her father, it was that composure was control. Even if it was just an illusion. -- Victoria Schwab
There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing is, what we do, it's in our blood. It's who we are. Normal wouldn't fit us, even if we wanted to wear it. -- Victoria Schwab
He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness. -- Victoria Schwab
I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks. -- Victoria Schwab
You sure have a lot of piercings for a guy with a needle phobia."
"I am the master of my fears -- Victoria Schwab
Come out, little Katherine, he'd say. Let's play a game. -- Victoria Schwab
One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley. -- Victoria Schwab
So stop fighting. Let the noise go white. Let it be like water. And float. -- Victoria Schwab
Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength. -- Victoria Schwab
Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make them, in their own eyes, immortal. Which of course they're not, but what's the saying? We are all immortal until proven otherwise? -- Victoria Schwab
And then I get why Wes can't stop smiling, even though it looks silly with his eyeliner and jet-black hair and hard jaw and scars. I am not alone. The words dance in my mind and in his eyes and against our rings and our keys, and now I smile too. -- Victoria Schwab
I live in a world where shadows have teeth. It's not a particularly relaxing environment. -- Victoria Schwab
All Near knows." "All Near forgets." "Or tries. -- Victoria Schwab
I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain. -- Victoria Schwab
Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. -- Victoria Schwab
Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I'm not afraid to die," you say with a wan smile. "I just hope I'm smart enough to stay dead. -- Victoria Schwab
Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain? -- Victoria Schwab
I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them. -- Victoria Schwab
The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea. -- Victoria Schwab
All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective. -- Victoria Schwab
Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw. -- Victoria Schwab
I watch you, and it's like watching two people. -- Victoria Schwab
He flashed up in her vision like a flare, auburn hair and that constant furrow between his eyes: one blue, one black. Antari. Magic boy. Prince. -- Victoria Schwab
It's a monster's world. -- Victoria Schwab
There would be a time to call the music. Time to summon the souls. -- Victoria Schwab
Serena was very good at telling tales. She had always been convincing (that was the word her sister liked to use for lying). -- Victoria Schwab
Everything is valuable, in its own way. Everything is full of history. -- Victoria Schwab
We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it. -- Victoria Schwab
There's a big difference between can't and won't. -- Victoria Schwab
Home. The word still tastes like sandpaper in my mouth. But it makes Mom smile - a tired, true smile - so it's worth it. -- Victoria Schwab
And besides, if my soul's impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out. -- Victoria Schwab
I didn't stop fighting," he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn't hear them, but she did. "I just got tired of losing. It's easier this way."
"Of course it's easier," said Kate. "that doesn't mean it's right. -- Victoria Schwab
You're trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn't about pushing everything out. It's just about pulling yourself in. -- Victoria Schwab
Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live. -- Victoria Schwab
Katherine was sitting alone at a table, but she didn't look lonely. In fact, there was a small, defiant smile on her lips. As if she wanted to be alone. As if the fact people avoided her was a badge. -- Victoria Schwab
This whole thing," I say, slumping against the doorway, "it's a lot of change. I just needed some space. -- Victoria Schwab
His lips linger on mine, urgent and warm.
Lasting.
And then he pulls away, breath ragged. His hand falls from my skin, and I understand.
He's not wearing his ring.
He didn't just kiss me.
He read me. -- Victoria Schwab
Aunt Joan broke her hip a few years back. Don't get me wrong, she's still pretty damn fierce. Lightning fast with her cane, in fact. I've got the scars to prove it. -- Victoria Schwab
Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong. -- Victoria Schwab
Perhaps it is in our best interest to... to surrender rather than waste words. -- Victoria Schwab
Every weakness exposes flesh, and flesh invites a knife. -- Victoria Schwab
There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to be open to opportunity, to be willing to step through doors without being pushed. I just have to be brave. I just have to be slightly braver than I am scared. -- Victoria Schwab
Monsters," he said slowly, "all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are all divided by your morals and your pride. What do I think? I think that if you cannot come together, you cannot win. -- Victoria Schwab
Sounds - the stretched-out, far-off kind - drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to break them down. -- Victoria Schwab
Properly buried."
"Properly kept."
"That is the way with witches."
"And with all things. -- Victoria Schwab
Sydney's arms were beginning to ache from lifting the shovel, but for the first time in a year, she wasn't cold. Her cheeks burned, and she was sweating through her coat, and she felt alive.
As far as she was concerned, that was the only good thing about digging up a corpse. -- Victoria Schwab
A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar -
Everyone groaned, including August. -- Victoria Schwab
Don't tell me you're afraid of heights," she said, shimmying along the edge.
"Not heights," he murmured. "Just falling. -- Victoria Schwab
At the sunroom doors, he cast a glance back, and found Rhy looking at him with an expression that might have been I'm sorry, but also could have been fuck off, or at the very least we'll talk later. -- Victoria Schwab
It was a game she sometimes played, ever since she learned about the theory of infinite parallels, the idea that a person's path through life wasn't really a line, but a tree, every decision a divergent branch, resulting in a divergent you. -- Victoria Schwab
Perhaps power had to be tended, like Tieren said, but not all things grew in gardens. Plenty of plants grew wild. And Lila had always thought of herself more as a weed than a rose bush. -- Victoria Schwab
Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best. -- Victoria Schwab
Ben is ten and he's dead. But he's not gone. Not for me. -- Victoria Schwab
Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.
"Well," he says with a smile, "the weather's quite nice. -- Victoria Schwab
Knowing didn't make it any easier. Aria -- Victoria Schwab
I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. -- Victoria Schwab
The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it. -- Victoria Schwab
Every weakness is a place to slide a knife. -- Victoria Schwab
If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly. -- Victoria Schwab
I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes. -- Victoria Schwab
The world resists, when you break its rules. -- Victoria Schwab
Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing. -- Victoria Schwab
The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence. -- Victoria Schwab
The silliest things shatter you. A T-shirt discovered behind the washing machine. A toy that rolled under a cabinet in the garage, forgotten until someone drops something and goes to fetch it, and suddenly they're on the concrete floor sobbing into a dusty baseball mitt. -- Victoria Schwab
The Archive means that the past is never gone. Never lost. Knowing that, it's freeing. It gave me permission to always look forward. After all, we have our own Histories to write. -- Victoria Schwab
Word of mouth was its own kind of magic. -- Victoria Schwab
I left the window open, she says.
And just like that, the world pulls back into focus. I stop spinning and something in me cracks - not something literal like bones, thank god, but something just as deep - and I'm so ready for this damn night to end, but I don't want it to end here. -- Victoria Schwab
He could be the monster if it kept others human. -- Victoria Schwab
It perplexed him, how someone about to play God could pray to Him, but it clearly didn't bother his friend. -- Victoria Schwab
I am a man, not a movement," he said. "But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part. -- Victoria Schwab
Are you proud of yourself, Katherine?"
She studied her nails. "Quite. -- Victoria Schwab
Why are there so many shadows in the world, Kate? Shouldn't there be just as much light? -- Victoria Schwab
The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it. -- Victoria Schwab
Kate collapsed onto a bench seat. "You were right" she said. "worst plan ever".
"Told you". Said Agust, sinking onto his knees. -- Victoria Schwab
The witching hour, people used to call it, that dark time when restless spirits reached for freedom. -- Victoria Schwab
It takes at least three assassination attempts to scare me off. And even then, if there are baked goods involved, I might come back. -- Victoria Schwab
She couldn't break the orbit. -- Victoria Schwab
People will die," he echoed, thinking of Ilsa. Ilsa in her room, surrounded by stars. Ilsa in the Barren, surrounded by ghosts. -- Victoria Schwab
We are the darkest acts made light. -- Victoria Schwab
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. -- Victoria Schwab
I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything. -- Victoria Schwab
three lines etched into its surface, -- Victoria Schwab
I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living. -- Victoria Schwab
He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the time they were places. But sometimes, rarely, they were people. For someone who never stood still, Lila felt like a pin in Kell's world. One he was sure to snag on. -- Victoria Schwab
Lying is easy. But it's lonely. -- Victoria Schwab
I know it's mad, but for a second I thought it was ... " "Saints, you're seeing her in everyone and everything now, Kell? There's a word for that." "Hallucination?" "Infatuation. -- Victoria Schwab
Everything seems different at night. Defined. Beyond the window, the world is full of shadows, all pressed together in harsh relief, somehow sharper than they ever were in daylight.
Sounds seem sharper,too, at night. A whistle. A crack. A child's whisper. -- Victoria Schwab
Agatha has a dangerous ease about her. She's the kind of person you want to like you. -- Victoria Schwab
Knowledge is power," she finishes, and I open my eyes to find her rounding the chair, "but ignorance can be a blessing. -- Victoria Schwab
I can see why my daughter likes you."
"Do you think she's falling for my dashing good looks, my charm, or the fact that I supply her with pastries? -- Victoria Schwab
I am a horrible hollow kind of tired; all I want is quiet and rest. -- Victoria Schwab
Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth.
Magic is wild, so you must be tame.
Magic is chaos, so you must be calm.
Are you calm, Kell? -- Victoria Schwab
When he touches me there is nothing but touch. There is no thought of wrong and no through of loss and no thought of anything, because thoughts can't get through the static. -- Victoria Schwab
It's Katherine, right?"
"Kate," she said.
"Frederick?"
"Freddie," he corrected. -- Victoria Schwab
I've been thinking."
"A dangerous pursuit."
"Indeed. -- Victoria Schwab
Free caffeine and sugar, a recipe for making friends. -- Victoria Schwab
Let them think you a demon or a god," she said. "Let them fear you. It does not
matter."
"It matters a great deal to me," he snapped. -- Victoria Schwab
Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear. -- Victoria Schwab
The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory. -- Victoria Schwab
I have to wonder if he has masks he wears, too. Maybe we all do. -- Victoria Schwab
The funny thing about armor is that it doesn't just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we're trapping ourselves. -- Victoria Schwab
Rhy held Kell's pain in his hands, while Kell held Rhy's life in his. -- Victoria Schwab
And whatever lie he would have given, it died on his lips as they met hers. -- Victoria Schwab
August found himself nodding, even though he spent most of his time afraid. Afraid of what he was, afraid of what he wasn't, afraid of unraveling, becoming something else, becoming nothing. -- Victoria Schwab
People are made of so many fragile pieces. -- Victoria Schwab
Come out, come out, wherever you are," she whispered. "Nice juicy human heart. -- Victoria Schwab
It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous. -- Victoria Schwab
I'm willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light. -- Victoria Schwab
The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them. -- Victoria Schwab
As nice as his touch was, it's not what lingers with me while I work. It's his words. Two words I tried to shut out, but they cling to me.
What if echoes in my head as I hunt.
What if haunts me through the Narrows.
What if follows me home. -- Victoria Schwab
Everything breaks . . . -- Victoria Schwab
I am Sunai," he said. "I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will. -- Victoria Schwab
Mourning was its own kind of music - the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together. -- Victoria Schwab
She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison"
He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life."
"Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you. -- Victoria Schwab
Truth be told, Victor didn't care for graveyards, either. He didn't like dead people, mostly because he had no effect on them. Sydney, conversely, didn't like dead people because she had such a marked effect on them. -- Victoria Schwab
He fought the men and he slayed the monsters and he bested the gods, and at last the hero, having conquered all, earned the thing that he wanted most. To go home. -- Victoria Schwab
There are no monsters in the dark. -- Victoria Schwab
More of a cookie person, myself. No offense to the other baked goods. I just like cookies. -- Victoria Schwab
Sing you a song and steal your soul. -- Victoria Schwab
Scary, how easy it is to forget bad things. -- Victoria Schwab
Are you afraid of your own shadow? -- Victoria Schwab
Don't you see, Owen?"
"See what?"
"The day's over. -- Victoria Schwab
We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride. -- Victoria Schwab
Only fools and cowards scorned fear. Fear keeps you alive. -- Victoria Schwab
I pull the key from around my neck and slip it into the hole beneath my brother's card. It doesn't turn. It never turns. But I never stop trying. -- Victoria Schwab
People are made up of so many small details. Some - like the smell of cookies baking - we can recreate. Or at least try. -- Victoria Schwab
People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you. -- Victoria Schwab
The wind took hold of whatever I felt, and ran away with it. -- Victoria Schwab
The Archive makes us monsters. And then it breaks the ones who get too strong, and buries the ones who know too much. -- Victoria Schwab
Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It's important that they see us. See you. It's important that they know you're on their side. -- Victoria Schwab
You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts. -- Victoria Schwab
Just then, Rhy appeared, looking cheerfully drunk. "There you are!" he called, wrapping his arm around Kell's shoulders and hissing in his ear. "Hide. Princess Cora is hunting princes ... . -- Victoria Schwab
When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. -- Victoria Schwab
If you don't show, I'm likely to do something foolish, like throw myself at Aluc- -- Victoria Schwab
They have little in common, save for their geography, and the fact that each has a version of this city straddling this river on this island country, and in each, that city is called London. -- Victoria Schwab
...something more than the sum of its parts- -- Victoria Schwab
We are welcomed to your city, added Princess Cora with a curtsy and a cherubic smile.
Kell shot Rhy a look that said, 'Honestly? This is the girl you're so afraid of?'
Rhy shot him one back that said, 'You should be, too'. -- Victoria Schwab
Safe. That is a pretty word. -- Victoria Schwab
If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?
He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that. -- Victoria Schwab
A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper. -- Victoria Schwab
Things only hurt more when you can see them. -- Victoria Schwab
Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but always the sum of their parts. -- Victoria Schwab
I watch him fight back a smile and lose. What comes through isn't smug, or even crooked. It's proud. And I can't help it. I smile a little too. -- Victoria Schwab
Mom may be able to power a city, but Dad barely stays lit. -- Victoria Schwab
But all cities were icebergs, the real power underneath -- Victoria Schwab
Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing. -- Victoria Schwab
Like everything was real, but nothing mattered. -- Victoria Schwab
But there was something else, too, a strange excitement at the idea of playing normal, and every time he tried to untangle how he felt, he just ended up in knots. -- Victoria Schwab
He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out. -- Victoria Schwab
Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't. -- Victoria Schwab
But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines. -- Victoria Schwab
Victor hated loud music almost as much as he hated crowds of drunk people. -- Victoria Schwab
Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.
Even if he could never be human.
He wanted the chance to matter.
He wanted to live. -- Victoria Schwab
I don't want to be forgotten. -- Victoria Schwab
Every weakness exposes flesh," he'd said, "and flesh invites a knife. -- Victoria Schwab
The two had been in each other's company for a long time. They knew when the other wanted to talk, and when they wanted to think. The only problem was that more often than not, Victor wanted to think, and more often than not, Mitch wanted to talk. -- Victoria Schwab
It becomes a game, whispered and breathless.
"I hide who I am."
"I fight with the dead."
"I lie to the living."
"I am alone. -- Victoria Schwab
I want the things most people don't notice. The ring and the key and the way you have of wearing everything on the inside. -- Victoria Schwab
A person chose their path. Or they made a new one. -- Victoria Schwab
Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts. -- Victoria Schwab