“Kate had spent enough time hiding behind her own walls to know a barricade when she saw one.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“And she was *happy*. The kind of happy that smoothed time into still frames.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“You're a Keeper. You hunt down the animated records of the dead in your spare time. I'm pretty sure you can handle… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I do want it. I want you to stay. Time and disease are taking you from me. You’ve told me, made it… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes and saw two versions of himself, the first surrounded by bodies, blood and shadow climbing his wrists, the… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“There are times when the marvels of scientific advancement expedite our processes, making our lives easier. Modern technology provides machines that can… — 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
