“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
“Doesn’t do much good,” she’d said, “to fear one kind of death and not another.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in our best interest to... to surrender rather than waste words.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Having something and losing it, it's so much crueler than never having had it.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 person into… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“What do schools do that for?” he grumbles. “What’s the point of summer if they give you homework?” “Exactly!” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
