233 Quotes by V.E. Schwab



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    He assures you that you’ll find your calling, but that’s the whole problem, you’ve never felt called to any one thing. There is no violent push in one direction, but a softer nudge a hundred different ways, and now all of them feel out of reach.

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    Henry wonders, as they wait in the queue, if some people have natural style, or if they simply have the discipline to curate themselves every day.

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    I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, i divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.

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    Food is one of the best things about being alive. Not just food. Good food. There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.

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    You're looking at that sandwich like it broke your heart.' Addie looks up at Henry, cracks a smile. 'It looks so good,' she says. 'I'm just thinking of how sad I'll be when it's gone.' He sighs in mock lament. 'The worst part of every meal is when it ends.

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    But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

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