Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I love you, Kell, but I had no interest in matching tattoos.”

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202. “Funny, how some people take an age to warm, and others simply walk into every room as if it’s home.”

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203. “This is how change happens. Not with a whisper and a wish like in those tales of yours, but with a well-executed plan – and, yes, a bit of blood, but that’s the way of the world, isn’t it?”

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204. “A breeze trickles through the air, carrying as much relief as a dryer vent.”

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205. “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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206. “Here is a new kind of silence, rarer than the rest. The easy quiet of familiar spaces, of places that fill simply because you are not alone within them.”

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207. “Only fools are certain.”

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208. “Pain, Victor had learned, turned people into animals.”

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209. “I can shape death,” he says, gesturing to the conjured figures. “But you can give it life.”

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210. “The old gods may be great, but they are neither kind nor merciful.”

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211. “If I’m missing something, then so are you. Life is about compromises. Or did you think because you put yourself in God’s hands that He would make you all you were and more?”

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212. “You are perfect, because you don’t exist.”

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213. “I saw an Elephant, in Paris.”

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214. “The night Kate Harker decided to burn down the school chapel, she wasn’t angry or drunk. She was desperate.”

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215. “Henry wonders, as they wait in the queue, if some people have natural style, or if they simply have the discipline to curate themselves every day.”

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216. “But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things – she would go mad. She has gone mad. What she needs are stories. Stories are a way to preserve one’s self. To be remembered. And to forget.”

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217. “The easy quiet of familiar spaces, of places that fill simply because you are not alone within them.”

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218. “Ignorance is only bliss if you want to get caught.”

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

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220. “Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power.”

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221. “We all have battle scars. People in our past.”

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

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223. “I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance.”

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224. “The earth beneath your feet does not care you will be king. Nor the water in your cup. Nor the air you breath. You must speak to them as equal.”

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225. “That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.” “We could be dead,” said Eli. “That’s a risk everyone takes by living.”

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226. “Love doesn’t keep us from freezing to death, Kell,” she continued, “or starving, or being knifed for the coins in our pocket. Love doesn’t buy us anything, so be glad for what you have and who you have because you may want for things but you need for nothing.”

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227. “But humans are messy Luc. That is the wonder of them. They live and love and make mistakes, and they feel so much. And maybe – maybe I am no longer one of them.”

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228. “If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?”

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229. “You see only flaws and faults, weaknesses to be exploited. But humans are messy, Luc. That is the wonder of them. They live and love and make mistakes, and they feel so much.”

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230. “You can’t make people love you, Hen. If it’s not a choice, it isn’t real.”

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231. “Delilah Bard – always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate – was running as fast as she could.”

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232. “One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.”

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233. “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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234. “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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235. “I’m not going to die,” she said. “Not till I’ve seen it.” “Seen what?” Her smile widened. “Everything.” Kell.”

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236. “She forgave him nothing. She owed him everything.”

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237. “I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, i divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”

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238. “There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.”

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239. “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 control. The act of taking, of breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They’re in it for the sheer defiance. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive.”

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240. “Books feed hungry minds. Tips feed the cat?”

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241. “She’d ben teasing, but he clearly wasn’t.”

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242. “Lila was nineteen. Nineteen, and every one of the years felt carved into her.”

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243. “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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244. “Don’t you see?” said Calla. “He wasn’t coming to pay your debt. He was coming to see if you’d returned to pay it yourself.” Lila felt her face go hot. “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 after one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stars divide you.”

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245. “It is easier to be alone among so many people.”

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246. “Dreamer is too soft a word. It conjures thoughts of silken sleep, of lazy days in fields of tall grass, of charcoal smudges on soft parchment.”

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247. “Grey for the magic-less city. Red, for the healthy empire. White, for the starving world.”

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248. “Addie orders a large coffee and two muffins, one blueberry and the other chocolate chip, and then hands over a crumpled ten that she’d found on Toby’s coffee table.”

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249. “He’s not a bad man,” she said. “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.”

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250. “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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