Top 300 Victoria Schwab Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”

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2. “There’s a big difference between can’t and won’t.”

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3. “You’re trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn’t about pushing everything out. It’s just about pulling yourself in.”

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4. “The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”

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5. “Her name is Grace, and she is on fire.”

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6. “Free caffeine and sugar, a recipe for making friends.”

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7. “Hesitation is the death of advantage.”

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8. “The Archive means that the past is never gone. Never lost. Knowing that, it’s freeing. It gave me permission to always look forward. After all, we have our own Histories to write.”

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9. “Some things don’t need to be said to be known.”

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10. “People are users. It’s a universal truth. Use them, or they’ll use you.”

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11. “Nothing happens until it happens, and then it’s already happening.”

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12. “The funny thing about armor is that it doesn’t just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we’re trapping ourselves.”

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13. “I’d rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”

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14. “Sometimes people need something – someone – to blame. It gives them peace until they can find the real answers.”

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15. “Nature is constantly growing, changing, one of the few things that can’t hold memories. You forget how much clutter there is in the world, in the people and things, until you’re surrounded by green. And even if they don’t hear and see and feel the past the way I do, I wonder if normal people feel this too – the quiet.”

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16. “The world resists, when you break its rules.”

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17. “I’d rather be able to see the truth than live a lie.”

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18. “Rule number sixteen of friendship,” I say. “Don’t go somewhere I can’t follow.”

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19. “It’s important to take care of the past. To revisit it, to study and learn. Understanding the past helps us move through the present and discover the future.”

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20. “And he would be gone. Whatever he was made of – stardust or ash or life or death – would be gone. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. In with gunfire and out with smoke. And August wasn’t ready to Dolly. Even if surviving wasn’t simple, or easy, or fair... Even if he could never be human. He wanted a chance to matter. He wanted to live.”

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21. “I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”

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22. “There are no monsters in the dark.”

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23. “There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.”

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24. “Scary, how easy it is to forget bad things.”

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25. “Some dreams are harder to shake.”

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26. “Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it’s lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.”

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27. “Sing you a song and steal your soul.”

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28. “Funny, how simple things became when you didn’t have a choice.”

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29. “I like to think there’s a special place in hell for girls who feed their little sisters to wolves.”

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30. “I know it hurts,” she said. “So make it worth the pain.” “How?” “By not letting go,” she said softly. “By holding on, to anger, or hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting.”

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31. “Thomas Alain Laurent has officially made his way to mayhem.”

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32. “The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If Eli was really a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”

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33. “I am Delilah Bard, she thought, as the ropes cut into her skin. I am a thief and a pirate and a traveler. I have set foot in three different worlds, and lived. I have shed the blood of royals and held magic in my hands.”

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34. “What you can’t see is always scarier than what you can. Your eyes play tricks on you, filling in the shadows, making shapes.”

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35. “All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”

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36. “Embrace your strange, dear daughter. Where’s the fun in being normal?”

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37. “People could only hurt you if you cared enough to let them.”

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38. “I want to believe that there’s more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.”

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39. “Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. And we control the music.”

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40. “We are the darkest acts made light.”

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41. “I watch you, and it’s like watching two people.”

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42. “Rule number six of friendship, Jacob. Friends don’t leave friends in the dark.”

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43. “You are my best friend. In life. In death. And everything in between.”

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44. “It takes at least three assassination attempts to scare me off. And even then, if there are baked goods involved, I might come back.”

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45. “Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.”

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46. “One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can’t control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, “To hang out with Wesley.”

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

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48. “Lies are easy, but trust is hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it’s lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back. And doubt, Da warned, is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.”

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49. “But the very first rule of friendship is don’t keep secrets.”

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50. “Everyone’s immortal until they’re not.”

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