Quotes by Victoria Schwab

...something more than the sum of its parts-

Everything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they become resistant to change. The longer a society survives, the more it clings to its power, and the more it resists progress. The more it resists progress- resists change- the more its ciizens demand it. In response, the society tighten its grip, desperate to maintain control. Its afraid of losing its hold.

Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

Wesleys touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.

Everything hurts. I dont know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like Im drowning, and its my fault, and I dont know how to be okay. I dont know if I CAN be okay. I dont know if I should be allowed to be okay.

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

There are no monsters in the dark.

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.

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

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but youll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and youll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

Even if surviving wasnt simple, or easy, or fair.Even if he could never be human.He wanted the chance to matter.He wanted to live.

Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. Whats that on your face?The smile vanished. What?Never mind, she said, laughing. Its gone.

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.

Cole steps forward, his fingers reaching around my shoulders, and kisses me. It is sudden and smooth and soft as air against my lips. The wind whips around us, tugging at the fabric of our clothes, but not pulling us apart. And then its gone, the cool pressure against my lips, and my eyes are open and looking into two gray eyes like river rocks./Thats/ what you wanted to show me?No, he says, his fingers slipping down my arms as he leads me off the path and out, away from Near. That was just in case.

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

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).