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1 " You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts. "
― Victoria Schwab , This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)
2 " 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 , Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity, #2)
3 " I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed. "
― Victoria Schwab , The Archived (The Archived, #1)
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
― Victoria Schwab , The Unbound (The Archived, #2)
6 " 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. "
7 " I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling. "
10 " Sing you a song and steal your soul. "
11 " 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. "
12 " Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain? "
13 " ...something more than the sum of its parts- "
14 " 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. "
15 " Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength. "
16 " But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off. "
17 " 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. "
18 " 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. "
19 " The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory. "
20 " There are no monsters in the dark. "
