Victoria Schwab

“She couldn't break the orbit.”

— Victoria Schwab

“Silver linings, kids. I'm full of them.”

— Victoria Schwab

“Her name is Grace, and she is on fire.”

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“Are you afraid of your own shadow?”

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“A confession: I am not a good friend.”

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“It's not life unless you care about it.”

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“You can't be two people. You end up being neither.”

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“And Alice drove her hand into Kate’s chest.”

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“It’s a shame they do that,” he says, thumbing through the pages. “Requirement ruins even the best of books.”

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

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“Ben is ten and he’s dead. But he’s not gone. Not for me.”

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“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”

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

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

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“I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them.”

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“After a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.”

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“She looked almost bored, but he knew it was an act, because everything about Kate had always been an act— the bravado,…

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“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to…

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“The funny thing about armor is that it doesn't just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up…

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“It becomes a game, whispered and breathless. "I hide who I am." "I fight with the dead." "I lie to the living."…

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“The sun retreats,’” Wes says softly, reverently. “‘The day, outlived, is o’er. It hastens hence and lo, a new world is alive.”

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“I left a ball of Oreo filling out for months one time. It never got hard. Lot of unnatural things in the…

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“Let them think you a demon or a god,” she said. “Let them fear you. It does not matter.” “It matters a…

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“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,"…

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“August stopped rolling the apple, closed the book, forced himself to sit still, even though a still body was a busy mind-…

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“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…

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“Why did you take this job?” I ask. “It doesn’t make sense. You’re so young—” “It was an honor to be promoted,”…

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“A confession: I am not a good friend. Lyndsey writes letters, Lyndsey makes calls. Lyndsey makes plans. Everything I do is in…

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“And then I get why Wes can’t stop smiling, even though it looks silly with his eyeliner and jet-black hair and hard…

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“A horrible, heart-slamming-in-her-chest, run-run-run kind of scared. But her mother said there's no outrunning Death or the devil, so she holds her…

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“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded…

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“The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and…

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“Monsters, monsters, big and small,” she sang cheerfully. “They’re gonna come and eat you all.” A shiver ran through him. “Corsai, Corsai,…

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“I don’t want to be forgotten.”

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“Free caffeine and sugar, a recipe for making friends.”

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“Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.”

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“Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.”

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“Don't you see, Owen?" "See what?" "The day's over.”

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“Life is always messy. It's supposed to be.”

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“Perhaps it is in our best interest to... to surrender rather than waste words.”

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