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Victoria Lee QUOTES

Victoria Lee QUOTES

1 " The poems circle the same question: how one’s soul could possibly endure when life’s beauty vanishes from reach. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

2 " The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

3 " She wouldn't understand that magic can be a metaphor, like Ellis said. That magic doesn't have to be magic for it to mean something. That sometimes magic is a salve over a burn, and it's the only way you can heal. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

4 " I still feel ghosts around me: the ghosts of the five Dalloway girls who defied the boxes and coffins the world tried to put them in. The ghosts of other women who attended or worked at this school, but whose legacies were forgotten instead of deified. The ghosts of every girl who came here and felt history beneath her feet. But I'm not haunted anymore. Maybe I never was. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

5 " There's something so freeing about cutting myself loose from technology in some small way. No more stressing over profile pictures or whether my social media feeds reflect the kind of golden, idealized life I want everyone to think I have. No more virus scans or junk mail or counting likes. If I want to look something up, I go to the library. If I want to talk to someone, I talk to them. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

6 " Ex Scientia Ultio
From knowledge comes vengeance. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

7 " When I read books, the boundary between my world and others shifted. I could imagine other realities. I envisioned the tales so clearly that it was as if I lived them. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

8 " For coffee-stained girls in libraries. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

9 " The problem is, I don’t have anything I want to read. I peruse the shelves, but nothing jumps out at me. I feel as if I’ve read everything—every book in the world. Every title seems like a reiteration of something that came before it, the same story regurgitated over and over. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

10 " Outbreaks of magic started all kinds of ways. Maybe a tank coming in from the quarantined zone didn’t get hosed down properly. Maybe, like some people said, the refugees brought it up with them from Atlantia, the virus hiding out in someone’s blood or in a juicy peach pie. But when magic infected the slums of west Durham, in the proud sovereign nation of Carolinia, it didn’t matter how it got there. Everybody still died. "

― Victoria Lee , The Fever King (Feverwake, #1)

11 " This whole night already feels bizarre, like the world viewed through a kaleidoscope. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

12 " Only people with loving families like talking about them… "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

13 " Dara couldn’t keep screaming the truth again and again, and never being heard. "

― Victoria Lee , The Electric Heir (Feverwake, #2)

14 " The future had felt like a distant and abstract construct, like a life that belonged to another Felicity—a mirror image of myself existing in some parallel world, a girl who stood a chance… "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

15 " But bitch felt like a harsh word to apply to a girl who was fighting so hard to make space for herself in a world that didn’t want her. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

16 " Is this what it feels like to be a ghost? To haunt the same halls over and over, waiting for someone to see you, to speak to you, to call for you or send you away again? "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

17 " I feel like my head is full of marbles, all of them rolling over each other, bumping against the walls of my skull, too many to count. I can’t think straight… "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

18 " I want to choose you,” Noam said softly. “Every day, again and again.”
Dara kissed him, Noam’s lips parting under the pressure of Dara’s mouth and his hand lifting to Dara’s cheek. And for that moment Noam let himself believe in the future they’d spun together, all its brightness and its flaws, something so magnificently mundane it almost felt unachievable: late mornings waking up together, Dara perched on the kitchen counter while Noam made dinner, trading work stories over tea in the early evening, Wolf curled up in bed between them while they slept. "

― Victoria Lee , The Electric Heir (Feverwake, #2)

19 " No. I won’t let you ruin my life for entertainment. I’m not Melpomene, to inspire your next great and tragic art. You don’t have the right. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance

20 " I’m fine,” I interrupt. “Sorry. I just…”
Why am I apologizing? Of course I didn’t want to exhume my ex-girlfriends grave. "

― Victoria Lee , A Lesson in Vengeance