“He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Lying is easy. But it's lonely." "What do you mean?" "When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?" "Nothing,"… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, Victor didn't care for graveyards, either. He didn't like dead people, mostly because he had no effect on them.… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“What a mess. Truths are messy and lies are messy, and I don’t care what Da said, it’s impossible to cut a… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Be careful, parents told their children, be good, or the Corsai will come, but the truth was the Corsai didn’t care if… — 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
