Top 100 V.E Schwab Quotes
#1. Are you afraid yet? Are you afraid?
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#3. 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]
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#4. Everything starts with belief. With faith.
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#5. Dammit, Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire." Lila
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#6. I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.
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#7. Mysteries are always more exciting than truths.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The night Kate Harker decided to burn down the school chapel, she wasn't angry or drunk. She was desperate.
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#14. Serena hated to admit how easy and addictive it was, getting her way, even when it made her miserable.
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#15. Are you sure about him?" she asked.
"I am," he said, his voice so steady she wanted to lean against it.
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#16. We could be dead,' said Eli.
'That's a risk everyone takes by living.
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#17. Easy meant dangerous. Easy led to mistakes.
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#18. She'd been betrayed, shot, saved, healed, hurt, healed again, forced to resurrect two men, only to witness the reassassination of one of them.
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#19. Good," she said. "The ones who think they're ready always end up dead." Kell
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#20. 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.
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#21. Sad the holidays are over?
Hardly, said Victor.
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#22. The dusk smelled like dead leaves and far off fires
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#23. 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.
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#24. She'd ben teasing, but he clearly wasn't.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. This isn't divinity, Eli. It's science and chance.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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
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#30. And Ulysses stopped his ears against the siren's song for it was death.
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#31. There are no good men in this game.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
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#36. People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.
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#37. A respectable prison is still a prison.
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#38. I put my life into His hands." "Well," said Victor, earnestly, "let's hope He gives it back.
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#39. You remember me, and I'll remember you, and that way we won't be forgotten." "That's shit logic, Vic." "It's perfect.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. the gravity of want drew Sydney back. She couldn't break the orbit.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I love you, Kell, but I had no interest in matching tattoos.
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#46. If he weren't currently in the back of a cop car, he would have wanted to make a thesis note.
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#47. If magic coursed through everyone and everything, was that what it felt like when it found itself again?
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#48. Spotted with stale blood, but with her hypothesis confirmed. Sydney Clarke could raise the dead.
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#49. Kings need not raise their voices to be heard.
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#50. It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck.
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#51. You look more ready to storm a city than seduce a man.
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#52. She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.
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#53. I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It's hardly an arsenal.
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#54. It was then she realized that she wasn't a ghost, or a god. She was a monster.
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#55. People either stole to stay alive or to feel alive. She had to imagine that they ran away for the same reasons. Lila
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#56. 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.
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#57. We're all here for a reason, Bard. Some reasons are just bigger than others.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.
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#63. What do you want to know?"
Lila returned to the chair and leaned forward, her elbows on her knees. "Everything
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#64. 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.
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#65. He might be mentally cut out for a desk job, but he doubted he'd fit behind most desks.
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#67. There are many shadows in the night.
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#68. 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.
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#69. We can't all turn blood and whispers into weapons.
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#70. It doesn't matter what someone is. Only what they think they are.
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#71. You can't kill me today," she called back. "I'm late for class.
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#72. little do these people know I am just a pawn" spat Kell
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#73. One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.
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#77. 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.
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#78. His eyes were dark with pain and worry,
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#79. 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?
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#80. 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.
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#81. The steps to solving a problem, from elementary math to breaking out of a police station, remained the same.
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#82. What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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?
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#85. What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth?
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. Me?" she said, pushing open the doors. "I'd choose clever.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Kell frowned deeply. It is amazing, thought Lila, that he doesn't have more wrinkles.
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#91. Oh yes, your relationship with Miss Bard is positively ordinary."
"Be quiet."
"Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.
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#92. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. A life worth having is a life worth taking.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will.
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#100. The strong sometimes gave birth to the weak, or the other way around
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