417 Quotes by Victoria Schwab

But there was something else, too, a strange excitement at the idea of playing normal, and every time he tried to untangle how he felt, he just ended up in knots.

Eli’s theory on the causation of EOness was there, but Lyne had added his own notes on the circumstances and factors used to identify a potential EO. To near death experiences the professor had added a term Eli had heard him use before, Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, or the psychological instabilities resulting from the NDE, and another one that must be new, Rebirth Principle, or the patients’ desire either to escape the life they had before, or to redefine themselves based on their ability.

The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it.

Funny, how simple things became when you didn’t have a choice.

You’re going to come back, right?” she asked when they reached the door. Victor looked over his shoulder. “Of course I will,” he said. “That’s my favorite lighter.

Sydney knew not to trust fear, and certainly not to trust the absence of it.

People could only hurt you if you cared enough to let them.

Why would you even want to be human? We’re fragile. We die.” “You also live. You don’t spend every day wondering why you exist, but don’t feel real, why you look human, but can’t be. You don’t do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you’re not a person at all.” He.

If you want to find Eli, and Eli wants to find you, why do you have to go through all this? Why can’t you just find each other?