“Da used to say that only fools and cowards scorned fear. Fear keeps you alive.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“And it seemed so simple: go with Flynn and live in fear, or go with Harker and pay for safety.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t do much good,” she’d said, “to fear one kind of death and not another.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“As she taped up her latest cuts, she wondered if, somewhere, there was a version of herself having fun. Feet up on… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I just want to know if you’re okay,” he says, so soft I barely hear it through the static. I’m not, not… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to be open to opportunity,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“There is a mirror across from me, and I check my reflection in it before heading home. Despite the bone-deep fatigue and… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in our best interest to... to surrender rather than waste words.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“The dead are silent, and objects, when they hold impressions, are quiet until you reach through them. But the touch of living is loud.… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“Having something and losing it, it's so much crueler than never having had it.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“People are made up of so many small details. Some—like the smell of cookies baking—we can recreate. Or at least try.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“I suppose it doesn't matter how they get out. All that matters is they do. And when they do, they must be found. They… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“The silliest things shatter you. A T-shirt discovered behind the washing machine. A toy that rolled under a cabinet in the garage, forgotten until… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“What a mess. Truths are messy and lies are messy, and I don’t care what Da said, it’s impossible to cut a person into… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“Let them think you a demon or a god,” she said. “Let them fear you. It does not matter.” “It matters a great deal… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“What do schools do that for?” he grumbles. “What’s the point of summer if they give you homework?” “Exactly!” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“But there was something else, too, a strange excitement at the idea of playing normal, and every time he tried to untangle how he… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
“Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share
