01UndatedWhat if I mess up?""Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me.""What's that?""Stay alive long enough to mess up again.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
02UndatedYou wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
03UndatedShe cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
04UndatedPeople were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change. For worse.And for better.It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt. So make it worth the pain.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
06UndatedWhat are you?" she asked. "A monster," said Kell hoarsely. "You'd better let me go." The girl gave a small, mocking laugh. "Monsters don't faint in the presence of ladies." "Ladies don't dress like men and pick pockets," retorted Kell. Her smile only sharpened. "What are you really?" "Tied to your bed," said Kell matter-of-factly. "And?" His brow furrowed. "And in trouble.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
07UndatedLying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing," I say."Exactly.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
08UndatedI am Sunai,” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
09UndatedDa used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
10UndatedI am a man, not a movement,” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
11UndatedI mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
12UndatedYeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
13UndatedDon’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
14UndatedHe leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
15UndatedHe was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
17UndatedHis gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
18UndatedListen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”“You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
19UndatedDo you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
20UndatedYou really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
22UndatedEverything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they become resistant to change. The longer a society survives, the more it clings to its power, and the more it resists progress. The more it resists progress- resists change- the more its ciizens demand it. In response, the society tighten its grip, desperate to maintain control. It's afraid of losing its hold.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
23UndatedDoubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.Victoria Schwab / quote ↗
