Top 300 Victoria Schwab Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “He used to tell me there were no bad dreams. Just dreams. That when we call them good or bad, we give importance to them. I know that doesn’t make it better, Mac. I know it’s easy to talk like that when you’re awake. But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.”

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102. “Language is the most valuable currency.”

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103. “Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It’s important that they see us. See you. It’s important that they know you’re on their side.”

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104. “His eyes found hers in the dark. They were a storm of blue and grey, at times bright and at others almost colorless. He tipped his head wordlessly in the direction of his chambers, and she followed.”

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105. “For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.”

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106. “The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.”

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107. “Usually, she’s tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up stories.”

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108. “When he touches me there is nothing but touch. There is no thought of wrong and no through of loss and no thought of anything, because thoughts can’t get through the static.”

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109. “I never liked bad weather. Not until I met you.”

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110. “Word of mouth was its own kind of magic.”

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111. “But there was something else, too, a strange excitement at the idea of playing normal, and every time he tried to untangle how he felt, he just ended up in knots.”

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112. “The more we love the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”

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113. “Ninth rule of friendship,” he says, “ghost-watching is a two-person sport.”

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114. “He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the time they were places. But sometimes, rarely, they were people. For someone who never stood still, Lila felt like a pin in Kell’s world. One he was sure to snag on.”

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115. “Don’t let looks fool you, Cass. Paris is brimming with ghost stories.”

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116. “There was a strange place, between knowing and not knowing. A place where things could live in the back of your head without weighing down your heart.”

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117. “Mourning was its own kind of music – the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.”

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118. “Funny, she thought, that even monsters had fragile hearts.”

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119. “Friends don’t let friends get snatched away by creepy skeletons.”

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120. “I’ve only ever known Jacob the Ghost. What that really means is that I’ve only known Jacob from the point when he entered my story. I didn’t think so much about the fact that he had a story of his own. A whole life, short as it was, before we got tangled up, before he became my best friend.”

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121. “Good and bad were weak words. Monsters didn’t care about intentions or ideals. The facts were simple. The South was chaos. The North was order. It was an order bought and paid for with blood and fear, but order all the same.”

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122. “And besides, if my soul’s impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out.”

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123. “Her bare feet land with light thuds like rain on stones.”

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124. “There was difference between the inability to lie and the need to speak the truth.”

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125. “You might not want to fight your monsters, August. But I’m fighting mine.”

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126. “Safe,” she said with a hollow smile. “That is a pretty word.” “Come on,” snapped Kate beside the door. “But – ” “Don’t worry, August. I’m not afraid of the dark.” Our sister has two sides. He took Ilsa’s face in his hands. “Please be careful.” They do not meet. “Go,” she said. “Before the cracks catch up.”

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127. “Because compassion must be louder than pride.”

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128. “Only fools and cowards scorned fear. Fear keeps you alive.”

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129. “Sometimes I miss the people my characters were before I ruined their lives.”

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130. “Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?”

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131. “Knowledge is power,” she finishes, and I open my eyes to find her rounding the chair, “but ignorance can be a blessing.”

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132. “People will die,” he echoed, thinking of Ilsa. Ilsa in her room, surrounded by stars. Ilsa in the Barren, surrounded by ghosts.”

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133. “Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met.”

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134. “But it’s easy not to care what other people think when none of them can see you.”

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135. “Why did he and Eli have to find each other? But even as she asked it, she knew the answer. She knew because her own pulse still quickened defiantly at the thought of Serena, because even as reason told her to run as far from her sister as possible, the gravity of want drew Sydney back. She couldn’t break the orbit.”

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136. “I’m not going to die,” she said. “Not until I’ve seen it.” “Seen what?” Her smile widened. “Everything.”

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137. “There would be a time to call the music. Time to summon the souls.”

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138. “There have been times when I’ve wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing is, what we do, it’s in our blood. It’s who we are. Normal wouldn’t fit us, even if we wanted to wear it.”

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139. “The perfectly good car comes with a perfectly dangerous girl.”

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140. “Time isn’t the same for the mad and the blind.”

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141. “I didn’t want to lie, but sometimes it’s so much easier than the truth.”

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142. “In an auditorium full of stares, his was the gaze she felt. in a classroom full of students learning lies, he scribbled the truth in the margins. In a school that clung to the illusion of safety, he didn’t shy from talk of violence. He didn’t belong there, the way she didn’t belong there, and that shared strangeness made her feel like she knew him.”

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143. “If you mean a few little things – the exact sound of his voice, the shade of his hair, then okay, yeah. You’re going to forget. But Ben isn’t those things, you know? He’s your brother. He’s made up of every moment in his life. You’ll never forget all of that.”

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144. “Most people don’t believe in a thing unless they see it for themselves. And if they see it, they’ll believe it, even if it isn’t real.”

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145. “August found himself nodding, even though he spent most of his time afraid. Afraid of what he was, afraid of what he wasn’t, afraid of unraveling, becoming something else, becoming nothing.”

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146. “Victor didn’t know what to say, so he said the most useless word in the world. “Sorry.”

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147. “There’s one kind of lie even you can tell. Do you know what it is?” She met his gaze in the steel doors. “The kind you tell yourself.”

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148. “But plans and realities were different things. Plans were crisp, clean – the stuff of paper and drill – and realities, August had learned, were always, always, always messy.”

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149. “Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear.”

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150. “You are crazy,” he says. “You are a crazy, amazing girl. And you scare the hell out of me.” I smile.”

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