50 Quotes by V. E. Schwab

Lila backed away toward the curtain. "Do you just... stand here until I need you?"The woman smiled and dug a volume from a pocket. "I have a book.""Let me guess, a religious text?""Actually," said Ister, perching on the low couch, "it's about pirates."Lila smiled.

A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet

Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. A man's tunic and a tricorne hat. If only she had known.

To think, she could have lived and died and never seen the sea.

Mysteries are always more exciting than truths.

Why, a world without reading, I cannot fathom it. A whole long life without poems, or plays, or philosophers. Shakespeare, Socrates, to say nothing of Descarts!

There are no good men in this game.

Kell's eyes went to the palace on last time, and he thought he could almost make out the shape of a man standing alone on a high balcony. At this distance, he was little more than a shadow, but Kell could see the band of gold glinting in his hair as a secong figure came to stand beside the king.Rhy raised his hand, and so did Kell, a single unspoken word between them.Anoshe.

Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will.