Top 300 Victoria Schwab Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “Nothing you ever do, Eli, is meant to be theoretical. I see it in you.”

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.”

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107. “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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108. “Language is the most valuable currency.”

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

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “A cloud of curls and a cluster of stars, swallowed up by smoke as Ilsa transformed.”

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

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

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

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

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117. “Reaching the hospital too early meant it wouldn’t be a near death experience, just a very unpleasant one.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “Because compassion must be louder than pride.”

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

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “Funny, she thought, that even monsters had fragile hearts.”

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126. “The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.”

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

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

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

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

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131. “You will have to choose one road, but when you do, the other will be lost. There is no victory without defeat, so you do not want to choose at all, but you must. And no matter what you choose, you will lose something. Or someone.”

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132. “Everything felt fast after being in a cell for ten years. Everything felt free. For the first few days they had driven aimlessly, the need to move outweighing the need for a destination.”

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

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

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137. “I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn’t, and you know what? It’s lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one’s ours. It’s all we’ve got.”

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138. “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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139. “If Verity’s sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity’s were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.”

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

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141. “Nobody gets to stay the same.”

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

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

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

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147. “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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148. “He could appreciate the elegance, the poetry of made replacing maker, shadow outlasting source.”

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

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

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