417 Quotes by Victoria Schwab

Calling the Tuileries a garden is like calling Hogwarts a school.

What you can’t see is always scarier than what you can. Your eyes play tricks on you, filling in the shadows, making shapes.

Corpse – another simple word that did so little work, failed to describe something that was once a person, and now was simply a shell.

It wasn’t easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.

Knowing didn’t make it any easier. Aria.

A man is not a cause, and a cause is not a man.

You know, maybe I should let you kill me. Because you’re right. Even though we come back, something stays dead. Lost. We forget something of who we were. It’s scary and wonderful and monstrous.

It’s freeing, at first, like shedding a heavy coat. And then you get cold, and you realize life’s not a coat at all. It’s skin. It’s something you can’t take off without losing yourself, too.

Because compassion must be louder than pride.