V.E. Schwab Quotes

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.

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

I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.

Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will.

People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.

You really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true.

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

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.

Well, when you wonder something, " said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more then we want to disprove them. We want to believe.

Kell stared at her, at a loss. Was her bravado a front, or did she truly have so little to lose? But she had a life, and a life was a thing that could always be lost.

Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all.

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.

Everyone's immortal until they're not.

Magic was a truly beautiful disease.

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

No one suffers as beautifully as you do.

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

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

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

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

After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.

A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet

Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.

Even if surviving wasn't 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. "What's that on your face?"The smile vanished. "What?""Never mind, " she said, laughing. "It's 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.

He suffered, " added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you.

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).

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.

A queen could leave her t

Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.

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.

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.

Properly buried.""Properly kept.""That is the way with witches.""And with all things.

Well, " I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?""I do.""And why is that, Cole?" I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush."Well, " he says with a smile, "the weather's quite nice.

You don't understand, " gasped Eli. "No one understands.""When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.

Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.

If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.