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141 " What are you supposed to be?” she asked in Arnesian. “A fish?”Alucard made a noise of mock affront. “Obviously,” he said, brandishing the helmet, “I’m a dragon.”“Wouldn’t it make more sense for you to be a fish?” challenged Lila. “After all, you do live on the sea, and you are rather slippery, and—”“I’m a dragon,” he interjected. “You’re just not being very imaginative. "
― Victoria Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
142 " You know,” he says, “for someone who doesn’t like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me. "
― Victoria Schwab , The Archived (The Archived, #1)
143 " It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends. "
― Victoria Schwab , This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)
144 " Stories have power," she says. "So long as you belive them. "
― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
145 " Caring about someone is scary, Mac. I know. Especially when you’ve lost people. It’s easy to think it’s not worth it. It’s easy to think life will hurt less if you don’t. But it’s not life unless you care about it. "
― Victoria Schwab , The Unbound (The Archived, #2)
146 " Why would you even want to be human? We’re fragile. We die.”“You also live. You don’t spend every day wondering why you exist,but don’t feel real, why you look human, but can’t be. You don’t do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you’re not a person at all. "
147 " 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 someone drops something and goes to fetch it, and suddenly they’re on the concrete floor sobbing into a dusty baseball mitt. "
148 " He came to me, after you were gone. Master Kell.”Lila’s eyes widened. “What for?”“To pay the debt for your clothes.”Her mood darkened. “I can pay my own debts,” she snapped, “and Kell knows it.”Calla smiled. “That is what I told him. And he went away. But a week later, he came back, and made the same offer. He comes every week.”“Bastard,” mumbled Lila, but the merchant shook her head.“Don’t you see?” said Calla. “He wasn’t coming to pay your debt. He was coming to see if you’d returned to pay it yourself. "
149 " I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them. "
150 " Sometimes help is a place and sometimes it’s a person, and sometimes it’s a bit of both. "
151 " It becomes a game, whispered and breathless."I hide who I am.""I fight with the dead.""I lie to the living.""I am alone. "
152 " We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it. "
153 " And then I get why Wes can’t stop smiling, even though it looks silly with his eyeliner and jet-black hair and hard jaw and scars. I am not alone. The words dance in my mind and in his eyes and against our rings and our keys, and now I smile too. "
154 " It was like cooking, not baking. Baking took a sense of order. Cooking took a flare, a little art, a little luck. This kind of cooking took a lot of luck. "
― Victoria Schwab , Vicious (Villains, #1)
155 " Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met. "
― Victoria Schwab , Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity, #2)
156 " If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around--humans, monsters, heroes, villains--to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. "
157 " Alucard snaked an arm possessively around his shoulders and brought his lips to the prince’s neck, just below his ear. Rhy actually shivered.“You are far too familiar with your prince,” he warned.“So you confess it, then?” His brushed his lips against Rhy’s throat. “That you are mine. "
158 " There's a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go. "
159 " Every weakness exposes flesh,” he'd said, “and flesh invites a knife. "
160 " Oh, the perks of being perpetually underestimated. "