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Wrong Understand Sign

Book:Vicious

Source: Vicious

“You really are like him, your father." "I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad." "What does it matter? It's simply true.”

Family Honesty

Book:The Near Witch

Source: The Near Witch

“But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.”

People Knowing Miserable

Book:A Darker Shade of Magic

Source: A Darker Shade of Magic

“There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touched. And then, there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren't in their way. And whoever Victor Vale was, whatever he was, and whatever he was up to, the only thing Mitch knew was that he did not want to be in his way.”

People Knew Type Of People

Book:Vicious

Source: Vicious

“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.”

People Two Perfect Normal Surface Dry Mask Hiding Angle Lie Fascination Search Find Look Skin Hide Error False Thing Picture Crack Under Beneath Glance Fascinate

Book:Vicious

Source: Vicious

“He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.”

Lies Manipulation Omissions

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.”

Lies

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“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.”

God Monster

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”

Soul Music

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge. “Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.”

Fear Heights

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“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.”

Humanity Human Monster Monstrosity

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“Dream strange. Write bold. Fear nothing... Or fear everything, but don't let that stop you.”

Inspirational Quote

Author:Victoria Schwab

“Kate had found a purpose, a point, and now when she met her gaze in the mirror, she didn't see a girl who was sad or lonely or lost. She saw a girl who wasn't afraid of the dark. She saw a girl who hunted monsters. And she was damn good at it.”

Life Living Monsters

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“Kell managed an echo of her smile, and [Lila] gasped. "What's that on your face?" The smile vanished. "What?" "Never mind," she said, laughing. "It's gone.”

Laughter Smile Joke Smiling

Book:A Darker Shade of Magic

Source: A Darker Shade of Magic

“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”

Growing Up Adults Madness Mad Adulthood

Book:The Near Witch

Source: The Near Witch

“Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. I would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you here.”

Home Family Horror

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“She wanted to want it, to feel what the other girls felt. But she didn't. And yet, Olivia is full of want. She wants a bed that does not creak. A room without Anabelles or matrons or ghouls. A window and a grassy view and air that does not taste of soot and a father who does not die and a mother who does not leave and a future beyond the walls of Merilance.”

Home Family Horror Haunted

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“It does not matter what you want-the only way out is to be wanted by someone else.”

Home Family Horror

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“Lying is easy. But it's lonely." "What do you mean?" "When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?" "Nothing," I say. "Exactly.”

Truth Loneliness Telling Truth

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).”

People Truth Wonder Special Stupid Broken You Yourself Better Question Discover Ask Other Worse Ponder Himself

Book:Vicious

Source: Vicious

“We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.”

Compassion Henry Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”

Care Found Lost Surrender Better Give Up Give In In The End

Book:Vicious

Source: Vicious

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

Letting Go Moving On

Book:City of Ghosts

Source: City of Ghosts

“Home is a choice.”

Family Horror Mansion

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?”

Music August Flynn Soro Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“Cole steps forward, his fingers reaching around my shoulders, and kisses me. It is sudden and smooth and soft as air against my lips. The wind whips around us, tugging at the fabric of our clothes, but not pulling us apart. And then it's gone, the cool pressure against my lips, and my eyes are open and looking into two gray eyes like river rocks. "/That's/ what you wanted to show me?" "No," he says, his fingers slipping down my arms as he leads me off the path and out, away from Near. "That was just in case.”

Funny Kiss Cute Cole Lexi

Book:The Near Witch

Source: The Near Witch

“It was damaged but not ruined, changed but not destroyed. Kind of like me. A little special. A little strange.”

Life Inspirational Change Thoughts Deep

Author:Victoria Schwab

“How much of my longings are for a self that looks like other selves.”

Self Awareness Longing Mental Health Feeling Fitting In

Author:Victoria Schwab

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”

Stories Books Escape

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks. "Required reading," I say. "It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books.”

Reading

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“I slept in your ashes last night. It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been.”

Death Family Horror

Book:Gallant

Source: Gallant

“Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it. Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first. Why do you want to die? I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.”

Trouble Live Die Lila Bard

Book:A Darker Shade of Magic

Source: A Darker Shade of Magic

“In the end, I guess mom was right. I have one foot in winter and one in spring. One foot with the living, and one with the dead.”

Life Inspirational Death Change Deep

Book:City of Ghosts

Source: City of Ghosts

“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.”

Progress Society Governmentent

Book:The Unbound

Source: The Unbound

“I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.”

Sacrifice Kate Harker August Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“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.”

Inspiration Sacrifice Movement Henry Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“No shame in being scared. But there’s a difference between being scared and being scared away.”

Fear Bravery Scared

Book:City of Ghosts

Source: City of Ghosts

“Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.”

Mourning August Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“Knowledge is power," she finishes, and I open my eyes to find her rounding the chair, "but ignorance can be a blessing.”

Agatha The Archived

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“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.”

Lying Faith Doubt Trust Distrust Trustworthy

Book:The Unbound

Source: The Unbound

“What if I mess up?" "Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me." "What's that?" "Stay alive long enough to mess up again.”

Life Inspirational

Book:The Archived

Source: The Archived

“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.”

Life Pain August Kate Going Forward Monsters Of Verity

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”

Life Pain Living Human

Book:This Savage Song

Source: This Savage Song

“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.”

People Love Relationships Friendship Trust Liars Secrets Con Artists The Unbound

Book:The Unbound

Source: The Unbound

“Self-righteousness,- Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, ―He heals. It‘s a reflexive ability. In his eyes, I think that makes it somehow pure. Divine. He can‘t technically use his power to hurt others. ―No,- said Sydney, ―he uses guns for that. Victor chuckled.”

Vicious Sydney Victor Victoria Schwab

Author:Victoria Schwab

“It´s a race, then. May the best Antari win.”

Lila Bard A Conjuring Of Light Kell Maresh Holland Vosijk

Book:Conjuro De Luz

Source: Conjuro De Luz

“There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.”

Monsters Kate Harker

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn’t, and you know what? It’s lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one’s ours. It’s all we’ve got.”

Kate Harker August Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“I don’t know who I am, and who I’m not, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, and I miss who I was; I miss it every day, Kate, but there’s no place for that August anymore. No place for the version of me who wanted to go to school, and have a life, and feel human, because this world doesn’t need that August. It needs someone else.”

Existential Crisis Kate Harker August Flynn

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

“Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.”

Weakness Kate Harker Callum Harker

Book:Our Dark Duet

Source: Our Dark Duet

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