Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The darkness has granted her freedom from death, perhaps, but not from this. Not from suffering.”

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452. “You deserve someone who loves you as you are. the good and the bad and the maddening.”

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453. “The humor, along with that horrible false cheer and fake smile, was gone, wiped away. In a way, Eli wasn’t quite as frightening, because she’d always been able to see the monster in his eyes. Now it had finally stopped hiding.”

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454. “It reminded her of the sea and the night sky. It reminded her of sharp knives and stars and freedom.”

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455. “She looks up. It has begun to snow again, lightly now, flakes falling like stars. The world goes muffled, a cotton kind of quiet.”

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456. “I remember seeing that picture and realizing that photographs weren’t real. There’s no context, just the illusion that you’re showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie.”

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457. “Lila smiled at that, one of those smiles that made Kell profoundly nervous. The kind of smile usually followed by a weapon.”

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458. “Want is for children. If this were want, I would be rid of you by now. I would have forgotten you centuries ago,” he says, a bitter loathing in his voice. “This is need. And need is painful but patient. Do you hear me, Adeline? I need you. As you need me. I love you, as you love me.”

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459. “Lying was a skill made easy by habit.”

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460. “She thinks of Estele. The year before, the old woman developed a ringing in her ears. It was always there, she said, day and night, and when Addie asked her how she could bear the constant noise, she shrugged. “With time,” she said, “you can get used to anything.” But Addie does not think she will ever get used to this.”

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461. “Addie wonders if this is love, this gentle thing.”

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462. “After all, the darkness only looked the way he did because of her. She’d given him that shape, chosen what to make of him, what to see. “Don’t you remember?” She told him then, “When you were nothing but shadow and smoke?”

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463. “Estele, who believes that the new God is a filigreed thing. She thinks that He belongs to cities and kings, and that He sits over Paris on a golden pillow, and has no time for peasants, no place among the wood and stone and river water.”

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464. “Lila had never really bought into fate, but like most people who disavowed religion, she could summon a measure of belief when it was necessary.”

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465. “It is so strange, to see her face reflected, distorted, echoed in so many others. Here is the line of her cheek and the curve of her mouth. Here is the angle of her eye and the slope of her nose. The details scattered like seeds across the portraits. She has never had a family, and now she has a tree.”

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466. “Henry’s mouth quirks, but the smile doesn’t reach his eyes. “At least you think I’m good-looking.”

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467. “Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.”

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468. “Power in Balance. Balance in Power.”

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469. “The darkness plays its own game,” she says. “It makes its own rules,” she says. “And you have lost.”

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470. “The Essen Tasch is itself a kind of lesson,” continued Alucard, “that it doesn’t matter what you call magic, as long as you can believe.”

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471. “Being seated at that table, boxed in by his siblings, positioned across from his parents like a criminal before a firing squad.”

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472. “Even if you met everyone you remembered, I would still know you best.”

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473. “A soul, for copper coins on a Paris dock.”

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474. “What a waste of life, to stand around and think so much on every little thing.”

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475. “You’re the hero... ,” she said, finding his eyes,“... of your own story anyway.”

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476. “In this moment, she is holding to the sound of her name, her real name, on someone else’s tongue, and it is enough, it is enough, it is enough.”

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477. “Belief is a bit like gravity. Enough people believe a thing, and it becomes as solid and real as the ground beneath your feet. But when you’re the only one holding on to an idea, a memory, a girl, it’s hard to keep it from floating away.”

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478. “It does not matter what you want – the only way out is to be wanted by someone else.”

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479. “Like I said, you can never have too many knives.” Kell.”

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480. “Aut viam invenium aut faciam, and so on.” She does not know Latin yet, and he does not offer a translation, but a decade from now, she will look up the words, and learn their meaning. To find a way, or make your own.”

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481. “He is, after all, only a figment of her mind. A companion crafted from boredom, and then from longing. A dream, to keep her company.”

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482. “Date. A date is something made, something planned; not a chance of opportunity, but time set aside at one point for another, a moment in the future.”

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483. “You’re not going to kill me today.”

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484. “I don’t want to stay here,” Holland answered flatly. “I want to go home.”

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485. “Yes. Because unless you plan to wed me yourself – and don’t get me wrong, I think we’d make a dashing pair – I must try and find a mate.”

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486. “Still, he couldn’t shake the feeling – the hope – that everyone was born with the ability to do something, that if he just searched hard enough he would find it. His gift. His purpose.”

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487. “Everything starts with belief. With faith.”

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488. “If you decide to leave- when you decide to leave- don’t do it without saying good-bye.”

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489. “He always liked learning. Loved it, really. If he could have spent his whole life sitting in a lecture hall, taking notes, could have drifted from department to department, haunting different studies, soaking up language and history and art, maybe he would have felt full, happy.”

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490. “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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491. “The nicest days are always the ones we don’t plan.”

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492. “His parents meant well, of course, but they always told him things like cheer up, or it will get better, or worse, it’s not that bad, which is easy to say when you’ve never had a day of rain.”

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493. “You can choose a thing after it’s chosen you. And even if it turns out not to be a home, it is at least a house with family waiting in it.”

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494. “Life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid.”

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495. “For twenty-three years, she dreaded the marker of time, what it meant: that she was growing up, growing old.”

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496. “Kell paused. “Don’t worry,” he said. “I will. Once I’ve seen it.” “Seen what?” asked Rhy. Kell smiled. “Everything.”

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497. “Ned had the childlike intensity of someone who wanted the world to be stranger than it was. Someone who thought they could believe magic into being.”

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498. “I do not want to belong to someone else,” she says with sudden vehemence. The words are a door flung wide, and now the rest pour out of her. “I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free. Free to live, and to find my own way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I’ve lived, which is no life at all.”

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499. “Being with Serena felt like a dream, an interlude. It made Eli feel human again. It made him forget.”

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500. “Everything starts with belief,” countered Eli. “With faith.”

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