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What 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

Victoria Schwab Inspirational Life

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Human Life Living Pain

People 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

Victoria Schwab August Going Forward Kate Life Monsters Of Verity Pain

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed.

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Victoria Schwab Humor Thinking

I 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

Victoria Schwab God Monster

Da 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.

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Victoria Schwab Distrust Doubt Faith Lying Trust Trustworthy

I 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.

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Victoria Schwab Henry Flynn Inspiration Movement Sacrifice

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

Victoria Schwab Books Escape Stories

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

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Victoria Schwab Books Escape Escape From Reality Peace Of Mind Reading

Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Fear Heights

He 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

Victoria Schwab Advice Bad Things Coping Da Dark Times Dealing With Problems Dreams Fear Nightmares Reality Surviving

He 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

Victoria Schwab Angle Beneath Crack Dry Error False Fascinate Fascination Find Glance Hide Hiding Lie Look Mask Normal People Perfect Picture Search Skin Surface Thing Two Under

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Music Soul

Listen 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.

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Victoria Schwab Human Humanity Monster Monstrosity

Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?

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Victoria Schwab August Flynn Music Soro Flynn

You 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

Victoria Schwab Family Honesty

...something more than the sum of its parts-

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Victoria Schwab Fiction Monsters

Everything 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

Victoria Schwab Governmentent Progress Society

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

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Armor Doubt Losing Yourself Lying Strength Trust

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

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Victoria Schwab Armour Dreams Fear Nightmares Strength

Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Con Artists Friendship Liars Love People Relationships Secrets The Unbound Trust

Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I CAN be okay. I don't know if I should be allowed to be okay.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Grief

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Memory

There are no monsters in the dark.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Dark Magic Monsters

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.

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Victoria Schwab Compassion Henry Flynn

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

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Victoria Schwab After Life Books Death Ghosts Mystery

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Advice Attacks Defense Fighting Force Momentum Movement Roland Tactics

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

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Victoria Schwab Curiosity Ignorance Sympathy

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Lies

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

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Lies Manipulation Omissions

Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.Even if he could never be human.He wanted the chance to matter.He wanted to live.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Live Monster

For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.

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Victoria Schwab Anxiety Beginnings Excitement Nervousness New Beginnings Suspense Victoria Schwab

I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab August Flynn Kate Harker Sacrifice

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Ask Better Broken Discover Himself Other People Ponder Question Special Stupid Truth Wonder Worse You Yourself

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

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Adulthood Adults Growing Up Mad Madness

A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Path Unkown

August stared at her, aghast. Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson.She stared at him, agape. August, was that sarcasm?

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab August Kate Sarcasm

Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Better Care Found Give In Give Up In The End Lost Surrender

Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die,” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Death And Dying

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

~ Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab Climbing Negative Space Positive Space Space
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