Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Every end is a new beginning.”

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2. “There is a defiance in being a dreamer.”

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3. “Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.”

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4. “Choosing a class became choosing a discipline, and choosing a discipline became choosing a career, and choosing a career became choosing a life, and how was anyone supposed to do that, when you only had one?”

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6. “Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. A man’s tunic and a tricorne hat. If only she had known. The darkness claimed he’d given her freedom, but really, there is no such thing for a woman, not in a world where they are bound up inside their clothes, and sealed inside their homes, a world where only men are given leave to roam.”

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7. “It is sad to forget. But it’s a lonely thing to be forgotten.”

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8. “What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?”

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9. “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.”

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10. “A body needs sleep. Without it, the heart gets weak. The mind gets tired. And tired minds are pliable things.”

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11. “The life is the minutes you want minus one.”

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12. “How could anyone forget this girl, when she takes up so much space? She fills the room with stories, with laughter, with warm and light.”

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13. “Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines.”

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14. “And perhaps that was the test of faith, to know, and not to say, to live with knowing, and let the truth live only in one’s head.”

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15. “The steps to solving a problem, from elementary math to breaking out of a police station, remained the same. A simple matter of understanding the problem, and selecting the best solution.”

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16. “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? She has learned to step between the thorny weeds, but there are some cuts that cannot be avoided – a memory, a photograph, a name.”

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17. “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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18. “March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”

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19. “If some part of her wavered, if some part of her wanted to give in, it did not last beyond a moment. There is a defiance in being a dreamer.”

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20. “Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”

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21. “They are Orpheus, she is Eurydice, and every time they turn back, she is ruined.”

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22. “For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”

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23. “Fix your crown, my prince,” he called back as he reached the door. “It’s crooked.”

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24. “Deja vu. Deja su. Deja vecu.”

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25. “A head gets lost, but a heart knows home.”

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26. “March is a fickle month.”

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27. “We are all immortal until proven otherwise?”

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28. “You make cheating death sound so simple.” “We do seem awfully good at it,” said Victor cheerfully. He lifted his glass. “To never dying.” Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.” Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.”

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29. “The next time you point a gun at someone, make sure you’re ready to pull the trigger.”

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30. “All she knows is that she is tired, and he is the place she wants to rest.”

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31. “March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring – though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”

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32. “Kell smiled back. And then Lila brought her free hand to his jaw and tugged his mouth toward hers. The kiss was there and then gone, like one of her smiles. “What was that for?” he asked, dazed. “For luck,” she said, squaring her shoulders to the wall. “Not that I need it.”

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33. “I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive.”

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34. “Tell me about dancing in Paris. Tell me about sailing across the sea. Tell me everything.”

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35. “Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered? It’s like that Zen koan, the one about the tree falling in the woods. If no one heard it, did it happen? If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?”

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36. “Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives.”

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37. “There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”

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38. “I saw an elephant, and thought of you. I was in Paris, and you were not. “And you thought of me,” she says.”

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39. “Henry Strauss walks home alone through the dark. Addie, he thinks, turning the name over in his mouth. Addie, who looked at him and saw a boy with dark hair, kind eyes, an open face. Nothing more. And nothing else. A cold gust blows, and he pulls his coat close, and looks up at the starless sky. And smiles.”

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40. “But that’s the thing, Henry, you haven’t been you. You waste so much time on people who don’t deserve you. People who don’t know you, because you don’t let them know you.”

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41. “Everything changes, foolish girl. It is the nature of the world. Nothing stays the same.”

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42. “But this is how you walk to the end of the world. This is how you live forever. Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it’s gone.”

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43. “A dreamer,” scorns her mother. “A dreamer,” mourns her father. “A dreamer,” warns Estele. Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”

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44. “To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own.”

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45. “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”

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46. “A defiant smile flashes across Addie’s lips. “I suppose I prefer my freedom to my reputation.” Madame Geoffrin laughs, a short sound, more surprise than amusement. “My dear, there are ways to buck the system, and ways to play it. What is your name?”

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47. “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.”

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48. “There’s a difference between power and strength. You know what that is? Control.”

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49. “I would rather see clouds blot out the stars.”

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50. “Lo exasperante del tiempo es que nunca es suficiente.”

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