Top 300 Victoria Schwab Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Every weakness exposes flesh,” he’d said, “and flesh invites a knife.”

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52. “So stop fighting. Let the noise go white. Let it be like water. And float.”

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53. “Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”

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54. “Every time I get nervous or scared, I remind myself that every good story needs twists and turns. Every heroine needs an adventure.”

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55. “Are you afraid of your own shadow?”

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56. “The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.”

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57. “Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. Sympathy leads to hesitation. Hesitation will get you killed.”

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58. “I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.”

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59. “No one suffers as beautifully as you.”

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60. “When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn’t matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”

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61. “The witching hour, people used to call it, that dark time when restless spirits reached for freedom.”

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62. “The moment I met you, I knew you were different.”

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63. “Why would you even want to be human? We’re fragile. We die.” “You also live. You don’t spend every day wondering why you exist, but don’t feel real, why you look human, but can’t be. You don’t do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you’re not a person at all.” He.”

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64. “It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.”

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65. “Because the only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”

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66. “Monsters, monsters, big and small,” she sang cheerfully. “They’re gonna come and eat you all.” A shiver ran through him. “Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw, Shadow and bone will eat you raw. Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly, Smile and bite and drink you dry.” August swallowed hard, knowing what came next. “Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal, Sing you a song and steal your soul.” The little girl’s smile grew even wider. “Monsters, monsters, big and small, They’re gonna come and eat you all!” She.”

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67. “For my eleventh birthday, Mom and Dad gave me my camera, the vintage one you already know about, with a purple strap and an old-school flash and an aperture that you rotate by hand. All the kids at school use their phones as cameras – but I wanted something solid, something real. It was love at first.”

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68. “It wasn’t easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.”

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69. “Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate.”

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70. “Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.”

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71. “The trees all whisper, leaves gossiping. The stones are heavy thinkers, the sullen silent types. He used to make up stories for everything in nature, giving it all voices, lives. If the moor wind ever sings, you mustn’t listen, not with all of your ears. Use only the edges. Listen the way you’d look out the corners of your eyes. The wind is lonely, love, and always looking for company.”

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72. “I am Sunai,” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”

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73. “It was a game she sometimes played, ever since she learned about the theory of infinite parallels, the idea that a person’s path through life wasn’t really a line, but a tree, every decision a divergent branch, resulting in a divergent you.”

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74. “She’d only been with Victor and Mitch a few days, but it had been long enough to grow familiar with the sounds they both made. Not just their voices, but the way they sounded when they weren’t speaking, the way they breathed and laughed and moved, the way they filled a space, and traveled through it.”

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75. “You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”

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76. “Rule number seven,” he says. “Don’t be nosy.”

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77. “People think that ghosts only come out at night, or on Halloween, when the world is dark and the walls are thin. But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the middle of you grandmother’s garden, in the front seat on your bus. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.”

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78. “August had never been afraid of dying, for all he thought about it. It bothered him, of course, the idea of being unmade, but his own death was a concept he couldn’t grasp, no matter how hard he tried. But loss – that was a thing that scared him. The loss of those he cared for.”

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79. “Are you going to be okay?” I close my eyes. “I don’t know, Wes. Everything hurts. I don’t know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I’m drowning, and it’s my fault, and I don’t know how to be okay. I don’t know if I can be okay. I don’t know if I should be allowed to be okay.”

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80. “The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it.”

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81. “I know it hurts,” she said. “So make it worth the pain.”

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82. “Victor didn’t want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly.”

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83. “My camera was on the bedside table, the purple strap frayed and the viewfinder cracked. It was damaged but not ruined, changed but not destroyed. Kind of like me. A little special. A little strange.”

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84. “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” she whispered. “Nice juicy human heart.”

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85. “Eli’s theory on the causation of EOness was there, but Lyne had added his own notes on the circumstances and factors used to identify a potential EO. To near death experiences the professor had added a term Eli had heard him use before, Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, or the psychological instabilities resulting from the NDE, and another one that must be new, Rebirth Principle, or the patients’ desire either to escape the life they had before, or to redefine themselves based on their ability.”

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86. “Science, even completely fictional science, held sway.”

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87. “There’s a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go.”

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88. “I know you’re supposed to want to be one of the popular kids, but the truth is, I never have. It just seems like it would be exhausting, trying to keep up with all the rules.”

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89. “Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die,” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead.”

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90. “Rule number twenty-one of friendship,” says Jacob. “Don’t leave your friend in the Veil.”

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91. “Rhy clenched his teeth, fighting back a groan, but his stillness must have betrayed him; he felt Alucard smile against his skin. The man’s fingers drifted to his tunic, deftly unbuttoning his collar so his kisses could continue downward, but Rhy felt him hesitate at the sight of the scar over his heart. “Someone has wounded you,” he whispered into Rhy’s collarbone. “Shall I make it better?”

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92. “Sounds – the stretched-out, far-off kind – drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to break them down.”

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93. “Nothing you ever do, Eli, is meant to be theoretical. I see it in you.”

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94. “Nobody gets to stay the same, little brother.”

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95. “The two had been in each other’s company for a long time. They knew when the other wanted to talk, and when they wanted to think. The only problem was that more often than not, Victor wanted to think, and more often than not, Mitch wanted to talk.”

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96. “What you feel, Cassidy Blake, is called a purpose.”

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97. “I feel connected to you, and I couldn’t bear the thought of that being severed. Lost.”

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98. “People were messy. They were defined not only by what they’d done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo.”

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99. “Maybe is a rope in a hole, or the key to a door. Maybe is how you find the way out.”

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100. “A cloud of curls and a cluster of stars, swallowed up by smoke as Ilsa transformed.”

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