417 Quotes by Victoria Schwab

It’s important to take care of the past. To revisit it, to study and learn. Understanding the past helps us move through the present and discover the future.

The Archive means that the past is never gone. Never lost. Knowing that, it’s freeing. It gave me permission to always look forward. After all, we have our own Histories to write.

She looked almost bored, but he knew it was an act, because everything about Kate had always been an act – the bravado, the cold air, all the aspects of her father arranged into a shield, a mask.

That pendant may protect you from the monsters, but it won’t protect you from me.

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.

You are crazy,” he says. “You are a crazy, amazing girl. And you scare the hell out of me.” I smile.

There was a strange place, between knowing and not knowing. A place where things could live in the back of your head without weighing down your heart.

People think that ghosts only come out at night, or on Halloween, when the world is dark and the walls are thin. But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the middle of you grandmother’s garden, in the front seat on your bus. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Nature is constantly growing, changing, one of the few things that can’t hold memories. You forget how much clutter there is in the world, in the people and things, until you’re surrounded by green. And even if they don’t hear and see and feel the past the way I do, I wonder if normal people feel this too – the quiet.