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Category: Victoria Schwab

Victoria Schwab

There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.

kate-harker, monsters

Victoria Schwab

He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

lies, manipulation, omissions

Victoria Schwab

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you’ll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie.

Victoria Schwab

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

curiosity, ignorance, sympathy

Victoria Schwab

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you’ll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

advice, attacks, defense, fighting, force, momentum, movement, roland, tactics

Victoria Schwab

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

after-life, books, death, ghosts, mystery

Victoria Schwab

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.

compassion, henry-flynn

Victoria Schwab

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.

Victoria Schwab

If Verity’s sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity’s were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

prosperity, sins, verity

Victoria Schwab

Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.

callum-harker, kate-harker, weakness

Victoria Schwab

Well,” I ask, leaning over him, “do you wish to stay?””I do.””And why is that, Cole?” I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush.”Well,” he says with a smile, “the weather’s quite nice.

cole, cute, funny, lexi, near, witch

Victoria Schwab

Properly buried.””Properly kept.””That is the way with witches.””And with all things.

cleanliness, witches