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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 " 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. "
3 " I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that. "
4 " 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. "
5 " Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling. "
6 " Sing you a song and steal your soul. "
7 " 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. "
8 " There are no monsters in the dark. "
9 " Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.Even if he could never be human.He wanted the chance to matter.He wanted to live. "
10 " For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang. "
11 " He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.He was made of darkness. "
12 " She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison?" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you. "
13 " I live in a world where shadows have teeth. It's not a particularly relaxing environment. "
14 " There's a big difference between can't and won't. "
15 " The moment I met you, I knew you were different. "
16 " And she was *happy*. The kind of happy that smoothed time into still frames. "
17 " You're dreaming," said Ilsa in her singsong way. She rested her chin on top of his shoulder, and squinted. "What is that in your eyes?""What?""That speck. Right there. Is it fear?"He found her gaze in the mirror. "Maybe," he admitted. "
18 " People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you. "
― V.E. Schwab , This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)
19 " The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them. "
20 " It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous. "