Top 500 V.E. Schwab Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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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302. “She forgave him nothing. She owed him everything.”

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

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304. “Stubborn’s not the same thing as infallible.”

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305. “People talk about carrying torches for old flames, and it’s not a full fire, but Addie’s hands are full of candles.”

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306. “Outnumbered is not the same as outmatched.”

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307. “And perhaps it is just that happiness is frightening.”

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308. “If anyone could make the strange seem ordinary, the impossible look easy, it was Delilah Bard.”

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309. “Death takes something with it. What did it take from you?” Eli lifted the gun again. “My fear.”

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310. “I saw became I think I saw became I couldn’t have seen became I didn’t see. Eyes were fickle. Minds were weak.”

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311. “She does not know if it was love, or simply a reprieve. If contentment can compete with passion, if warmth will ever be as strong as heat. But it was a gift.”

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312. “Only you would arrive early to your own death.”

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313. “So she longs for the mornings, but she settles for the nights...”

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314. “She wants to hold the night like a chocolate on her tongue, savor every second before it melts.”

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315. “Strength and weakness are tangled things,” the Aven Essen had said. “They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power.”

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316. “There’s no way to un-know the fact that someone is dying. It eats away all the normal, and leaves something wrong and rotten in its place.”

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317. “But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest?”

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318. “She has declared it a reading day, she says. Nothing else to do when the weather turns.”

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319. “It was the only time the heavy panic set in, panic that she would never leave, never get to go home. She would be forgotten here, wearing the same pale clothes as everyone else, blending in with the patients and the nurses and the walls, and her family would be outside in the world and she would bleed away like a memory, like a colorful shirt washed too many times.”

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320. “This new calm was becoming unsettling. Victor struggled to assess it.”

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321. “I’m not bitter,” grumbled Parrish back. “I’m broke.”

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322. “This is one of the things she loves about Sam, one of the first things she ever noticed. Sam lives and loves with such an open heart, shares the kind of warmth most reserve only for the closest people in their lives. Reasons come second to needs. She took her in, she warmed her up, before she thought to ask her name.”

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323. “Henry would rather be a storykeeper than a storyteller.”

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324. “There is no violent push in one direction, but a softer nudge a hundred different ways, and now all of them feel out of reach.”

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325. “We may share an ability, you and I, but that does not make us equals.”

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326. “The moments that define lives aren’t always obvious.”

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327. “The men were playing Sanct, and from what she could tell, they hadn’t been playing long, because neither looked that angry and both still had all their weapons and most of their clothes. Lila wasn’t a fan of the game, mostly because after four months of watching the sailors win and lose, she felt no closer to understanding the rules well enough to play, let alone cheat.”

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328. “But here is the danger of a place like Villon. Blink – and a year is gone. Blink – and five more follow. It is like a gap between stones, this village, just wide enough for things to get lost. The kind of place where time slips and blurs, where a month, a year, a life can go missing. Where everyone is born and buried in the same ten-meter plot.”

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329. “Don’t stand there, Prince Rhy,” called Tieren, “when you could help to save us all.”

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330. “Would you rather feel nothing or everything?”

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331. “Rhy laughed silently. “I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.” “I apologize for shooting you in the leg,” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”

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332. “My name is Adeline LaRue, she tells herself. My father taught me how to be a dreamer, and my mother taught me how to be a wife, and Estele taught me how to speak to gods.”

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333. “Adeline still prays to the new God, when she must, but when her parents are not looking she prays to the old ones, too. She can do both: keep one tucked in her cheek like a cherry pit while she whispers to the other. So far, none of them have answered. And yet, Adeline is sure that they are listening.”

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334. “Her hair, once pale, now shone red, a shock of color against her still porcelain skin, bold as blood. It skimmed her shoulders as she twirled, and bowed, a bright streak at the center of a deadly circle. Ojka danced, and the metal kept pace, the perfect partner to her fluid movements, and the entire time, she kept her eyes closed.”

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335. “A throne of wood and a false title does not make you queen of anything.”

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336. “After all, life seems very long sometimes, but he knows it will go so fast, and he doesn’t want to miss a moment.”

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337. “It’s a long-running sore point between them, the fact that Henry isn’t gay, that he’s attracted to a person first and their gender second. Robbie cringes, but doesn’t apologize.”

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338. “She breathes life into him with every line. And with every stroke, coaxes out another story.”

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339. “Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you.”

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340. “A life worth having is a life worth taking.”

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341. “Life can feel so long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast.”

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342. “Hate was too simple a word. He and Eli were bonded, by blood and death and science. They were alike, more so now than ever. And he had missed Eli. He wanted to see him. And he wanted to see him suffer. He wanted to see the look in Eli’s eyes when he lit them up with pain. He wanted his attention.”

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343. “And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers.”

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344. “Adeline is sixteen now, and everyone speaks of her as if she is a summer bloom, something to be plucked, and propped within a vase, intended only to flower and then to rot. Like Isabelle, who dreams of family instead of freedom, and seems content to briefly blossom and then wither. No, Adeline has decided she would rather be a tree, like Estele. If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky.”

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345. “That is the madness of it. Every day is amber, and she is the fly trapped inside. No way to think in days or weeks when she lives in moments. Time begins to lose its meaning – and yet, she has not lost track of time.”

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346. “I belong wherever I choose.”

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347. “We can’t all turn blood and whispers into weapons.”

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348. “Catch me if you can.”

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349. “Was it madness, to believe? Or arrogance, to not?”

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

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