Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered.”

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102. “There is nowhere you go,” said the Antari to her prince, “that I cannot follow.”

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103. “Purity without balance is its own corruption.”

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104. “And she is tired. Unspeakably tired. But there is no question she has lived. “Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.” And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it. Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow? Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain? And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, “Always.”

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105. “Perhaps you are haunting me. What a comforting thought. Maybe it’s you in the darkness.”

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106. “Some people are repelled by darkness. Others are drawn to it, to the static crackle of power in a place. To the hum of magic, or the presence of the dead. They can see these forces staining the world like ink in water.”

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107. “Palimpsest. She doesn’t know the word just yet, but fifty years from now, in a Paris salon, she will hear it for the first time, the idea of the past blotted out, written over by the present, and think of this moment in Le Mans. A.”

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108. “You are not capable of love because you cannot understand what it is to care for someone else more than yourself. If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

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109. “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.”

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110. “So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”

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111. “She will come back to this moment a thousand times. In frustration, and regret, in sorrow, and self-pity, and unbridled rage. She will come to face the fact that she cursed herself before he ever did.”

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112. “Addie has discovered chocolate.”

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113. “Art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories.”

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114. “Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”

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115. “Only fools are certain.”

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116. “She can speak German, Italian, Spanish, Swiss, but French is different, French is bread baking in her mother’s oven, French is her father’s hands carving wood, French is Estele murmuring to her garden.”

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117. “You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.”

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118. “She missed him the way someone might miss the sun in winter, though they still dread its heat.”

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119. “Such is the quandary when it comes to magic, that it is not an issue of strength but of balance. For too little power, and we become weak. Too much, and we become something else entirely.”

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120. “The moments that define lives aren’t always obvious. They don’t always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there’s no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren’t always protracted, heavy with meaning.”

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121. “Humans are capable of such wondrous things. Of cruelty, and war, but also art and invention.”

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122. “It is a car crash in slow motion, and Addie knew it was bound to happen, the inevitable collision of people and place, time and circumstance.”

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123. “The vexing thing about time,” he says, “is that it’s never enough. Perhaps a decade too short, perhaps a moment. But a life always ends too soon.”

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124. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” “I get the feeling that’s not what Thomas Jefferson meant,” muttered Mitch.”

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125. “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.”

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126. “I will simply go where it is dark again.” Addie rises, goes to the window, and draws the curtains closed, plunging the room back into lightless black. “There,” she says, feeling her way back to him. “Now it is dark again.” Luc laughs, a soft, beautiful sound, and pulls her down into the bed.”

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127. “Teaching is an extension of learning, a way to be a perpetual student.”

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128. “You know,” she’d said, “they say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.”

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129. “That’s the trouble with March – the warmth never lasts. There’s that narrow stretch when it parades as spring, just enough for you to thaw if you’re sitting in the sun, but then it’s gone. The sun has moved on. The shadows have swept in.”

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130. “The day passes like a sentence. The sun falls like a scythe.”

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131. “Nothing is all good or all bad. Life is so much messier than that.”

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132. “Scars are not shameful,” said Ojka, “not unless you let them be.” The knight straightened. “If you do not wear them, they will wear you.” And with that, she’d walked away.”

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133. “I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth.”

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134. “You belong to me.” There is a sound like thunder in the back of his throat. “With me.”

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135. “He is full of roots, while she has only branches.”

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136. “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.”

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137. “While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself. – Douglas Horton.”

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138. “Beneath him, sprawled on the tiles, was the lifeless body of Eli Cardale. Eli, who showed up in the hallway sophomore year with a suitcase and a smile. Eli, who believed in God and had a monster inside just like Victor, but knew how to hide it better.”

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139. “If her eyes could speak, they would laugh.”

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140. “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.”

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141. “Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”

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142. “You aren’t some avenging angel, Eli,” he said. “You’re not blessed, or divine, or burdened. You’re a science experiment.”

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143. “But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things – she would go mad. She has gone mad.”

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144. “When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong.”

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145. “The darkness whispers in her ear, arms wrapped like a scarf around her throat. I am always with you.”

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146. “The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful. They are fickle, unsteady as moonlight on water, or shadows in a storm. If you insist on calling them, take heed: be careful what you ask for, be willing to pay the price.”

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147. “I am so happy. I am so scared. The two, it turns out, can walk together, hand in hand.”

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148. “Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don’t want to die – dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn’t actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”

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149. “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?”

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150. “La vida puede parecer muy larga a veces, pero al final, pasa volando.”

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