Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Outside the window, the day just carries on as if nothing’s changed, but it feels like everything has, because Addie LaRue is immortal, and Henry Strauss is damned.”

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252. “But the sorrow has faded, replaced by stubborn rage, and she resolves to kindle it, to shield and nurture the flame until it takes far more than a single breath to blow it out.”

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253. “You look at me, Kell, and think we are alike. That we are the same, even, one person on two divergent paths. Perhaps you think our power bonds us. Allow me to correct your misapprehension. We may share an ability, you and I, but that does not make us equals.”

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254. “Muriel Strauss, who at twenty-four only ever talks about the world in terms of conceptual authenticity and creative truth, who’s been a darling of the New York art scene since her first semester at Tisch, where she quickly realized she was better at critiquing art than creating it.”

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255. “It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other’s skin.”

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256. “Dead men can’t hold grudges.”

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257. “But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world.”

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258. “That day was awful. Muriel put gum in David’s book and I had a cold, and my parents were fighting right up until the flash went off. And in the photo, we all look so... happy. 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 photo’s 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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259. “What do you think your London did, when the darkness came? When Osaron’s magic consumed his world, and threatened to take ours with it? You traded away our world’s safety for your own, locked the doors and trapped us between the raging water and the rocks. How does it feel now?”

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260. “She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”

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261. “It seemed like a good plan, or at least, like the best of several bad ones. But.”

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262. “It was a voice like a shadow in the woods at night. Quiet and dark and cold.”

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263. “Don’t you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke? Darling, he’d said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”

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264. “A successful theft is an anonymous act. The absence of a mark.”

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265. “Barron’s kindness was like a curse, because she knew she had done nothing to deserve it.”

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266. “She will learn in time that she can lie, and the words will flow like wine, easily poured, easily swallowed. But the truth will always stop at the end of her tongue. Her story silenced for all but herself.”

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267. “Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate. All she needed was a working ship.”

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268. “She pauses at MEMOIR, studying the titles on the spines, so many I’s and Me’s and My’s, possessive words for possessive lives. What a luxury, to tell one’s story. To be read, remembered.”

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269. “They are a sea of strangers, unfamiliar faces in unfamiliar clothes, with unfamiliar voices, calling unfamiliar words. It feels as if the doors of her world have been thrown wide, so many rooms added to a house she thought she knew.”

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270. “There is a freedom, after all, in being forgotten.”

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271. “What I want, what I’ve always truly wanted, is for someone to remember me. That’s why you can say my name. That’s why you can go away and come back, and still know who I am. And that’s why I can look at you, and see you as you are. And it is enough. It will always be enough.”

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272. “Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth. Magic is wild, so you must be tame. Magic is chaos, so you must be calm. Are you calm, Kell?”

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273. “Addie is so many things, thinks Henry. But she is not forgettable. How could anyone forget this girl, when she takes up so much space? She fills the room with stories, with laughter, with warmth and light.”

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274. “Stories are a way to preserve one’s self. To be remembered. And to forget.”

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275. “No London is truly without magic.”

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276. “Henry Strauss wakes her with kisses.”

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277. “A thief plays the game only when they think they’ll win. A pirate plays the game even when they think they’ll lose.”

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278. “And by the time they return home to Villon, she will already be a different version of herself. A room with the windows all thrown wide, eager to let in the fresh air, the sunlight, the spring.”

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279. “Divest yourself of weapons, or I will do it for you.”

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280. “He may be a sun, but she is a shining comet, dragging their focus like burning meteors in her wake.”

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281. “Normal was such a fragile thing, so easily upset by even good intentions.”

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282. “History is a thing designed in retrospect.”

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283. “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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284. “The time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.”

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285. “Brother,” said Rhy, holding him tight. And unlike the coat, and all the other trappings of Kell’s old life, this one, at least, still fit.”

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286. “We want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe.”

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287. “Don’t kill the messenger,” said Lila when the two were gone, “but I think the princess is trying to get into your” – her gaze trailed Kell up and down – “good graces.”

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288. “Heaven is a nice spot in the shade, a broad tree over my bones.”

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289. “Pretending not to be sad was the hardest, but looking sad made people think you were weak, and when you were already a foot too short and a measure too small, and a girl on top of that, you had to work twice as hard to convince them it wasn’t true.”

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290. “Why do you want to die? I don’t, she’d say. I just want to live.”

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291. “Alucard’s eyes had gone sharp and empty at the same time, as if he were focusing, just on something else, something far away.”

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292. “And he had missed Eli. He wanted to see him. And he wanted to see him suffer.”

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293. “Spells are for witches, and witches are too often burned.”

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294. “She said no, and learned how much the word was worth.”

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295. “One adventure at a time.”

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296. “Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.”

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297. “He lifted his glass. “To never dying.” Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.” Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.”

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298. “A park in London. A patio in Prague. A tea room in Edinburgh.”

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299. “Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful. And as for family – well, blood is always family, but family doesn’t always have to be blood.”

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300. “Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.”

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