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City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1) QUOTES

City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1) QUOTES

1 " My birthday is in late March, right at that place when the seasons run together. When the sun is warm but the wind is cold, and trees are starting to blossom but the ground hasn’t quite thawed. Mom likes to say I was born with one foot in winter and the other in spring. That’s why I can’t sit still, and why (according to her) I’m always searching for trouble—because I don’t belong to one place. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

2 " when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

3 " Embrace your strange, dear daughter. Where’s the fun in being normal? "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

4 " Every time I get nervous or scared, I remind myself that every good story needs twists and turns. Every heroine needs an adventure. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

5 " Stories have power," she says. "So long as you belive them. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

6 " Sometimes help is a place and sometimes it’s a person, and sometimes it’s a bit of both. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

7 " There's a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

8 " This is just a change of setting, a new storyline, a fresh chapter. We have a whole book to write," she says, squeezing me around the shoulders, "and how do we write it?"
"One page at a time", I say automatically. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

9 " One foot in winter and one in spring.
One foot with the living and one with the dead. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

10 " People think that ghosts only come out at night, or on Halloween, when the world is dark and the walls are thin. But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the middle of you grandmother's garden, in the front seat on your bus. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

11 " Nothing happens until it happens, and then it’s already happening. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

12 " and every second you don’t look, your mind just makes it worse because in the end, what you don’t see is always scarier than what you do. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

13 " our memories change, too. (For instance, I swear the teddy bear I had growing up was green, but according to my parents it was orange.) But when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be. Which is why I love pictures. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

14 " The living may take strength from love and hope, but the dead grow strong on darker things. On pain and anger and regret. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

15 " ...when it comes to the strange and unexplained, it's important to keep an open mind. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

16 " She bounces off with all the enthusiasm of someone rushing toward cake, not corpses. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

17 " Ninth rule of friendship,” he says, “ghost-watching is a two-person sport. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

18 " Rule number sixteen of friendship,” I say. “Don’t go somewhere I can’t follow. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

19 " I know you’re supposed to want to be one of the popular kids, but the truth is, I never have. It just seems like it would be exhausting, trying to keep up with all the rules. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

20 " Stories have power,” she says. “So long as you believe them. "

― Victoria Schwab , City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)