A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2) QUOTES

2 " Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on.”
Calla raised a brow. “You do not think Master Kell knows how? "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

4 " Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

6 " She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn’t that simple. Maybe it wasn’t a matter of what she didn’t have, of what she wasn’t, but what she was. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

8 " Because Rhy didn’t need his protection, not anymore, and he’d only told a partial truth when he said they both needed this.
The whole truth was, Rhy needed it more.
Because Kell had given him a gift he did not want, could never repay.
He’d always envied his brother ’s strength.
And now, in a horrible way, it was his.
He was immortal.
And he hated it.
And he hated that he hated it. Hated that he’d become the thing he never wanted to be, a burden to his brother, a source of pain and suffering, a prison. Hated that if he’d had a choice, he would have said no. Hated that he was grateful he hadn’t had a choice, because he wanted to live, even if he didn’t deserve to.
But most of all, Rhy hated the way his living changed how Kell lived, the way his brother moved through life as if it were suddenly fragile. The black stone, and whatever lived inside it, and for a time in Kell, had changed his brother, woken something restless, something reckless. Rhy wanted to shout, to shake Kell and tell him not to shy away from danger on his account, but charge toward it, even if it meant getting hurt.
Because Rhy deserved that pain.
He could see his brother suffocating beneath the weight of it. Of him.
And he hated it.
And this gesture—this foolish, mad, dangerous gesture—was the best he could do.
The most he could do. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

10 " After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

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

― Victoria Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

14 " Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I."
"And that doesn't frighten you?"
Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

16 " She straightened. “You tried to seduce me, for information.”
“You can’t hold that against me forever.”
“It was last night.”
“Well I was running out of options, and I figured it was worth a shot.”
Lila rolled her eyes. “You really know how to make a girl feel special. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

18 " Ned had the childlike intensity of someone who wanted the world to be stranger than it was. Someone who thought they could believe magic into being. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

20 " Sailors lived on stories as much as sea air and cheap liquor. "

― V.E. Schwab , A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)