“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. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change.
For worse.
And for better.
It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.
So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Mourning was its own kind of music—the sound of so many hearts, of so many breaths, of so many standing together.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I didn't stop fighting," he said, the words so low he worried Kate wouldn't hear them, but she did. "I just got tired of losing. It's easier this way."
"Of course it's easier," said Kate. "that doesn't mean it's right.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain."
"How?"
"By not letting go," she said softly. "By holding on, to anger, to hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting."
You, he thought.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn’t, and you know what? It’s lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one’s ours. It’s all we’ve got.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."
She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm?”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Do you ever wonder why music brings a soul to surface? What makes beauty work as well as pain?”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I am a man, not a movement,” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Are you afraid of your own shadow?”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Monsters,” he said slowly, “all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are all divided by your morals and your pride. What do I think? I think that if you cannot come together, you cannot win.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“I don’t know who I am, and who I’m not, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, and I miss who I was; I miss it every day, Kate, but there’s no place for that August anymore. No place for the version of me who wanted to go to school, and have a life, and feel human, because this world doesn’t need that August. It needs someone else.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar—
Everyone groaned, including August.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Kate wondered who was more addicted to their high, serial killers or coffee addicts.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It’s important that they see us. See you. It’s important that they know you’re on their side.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Oh, the perks of being perpetually underestimated.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“...something more than the sum of its parts-”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” she whispered. “Nice juicy human heart.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“As she taped up her latest cuts, she wondered if, somewhere, there was a version of herself having fun. Feet up on the back of a theater seat while movie monsters slunk out of the shadows, and people in the audience screamed because it was fun to be afraid when you knew you were safe.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Come out, little Katherine, he’d say. Let’s play a game.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“Funny, how simple things became when you didn’t have a choice.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
“And Alice drove her hand into Kate’s chest.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from Our Dark Duet
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“I smiled,—for what had I to fear?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
“Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay," he said.
"It's because you're kind," she said. "And because you get all my jokes..."
"Okay." He laughed.
"And you're smarter than I am."
"I am not."
"And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal."
"You're crazy."
"I have to go." She leaned over so the receiver was close to the base.
"Eleanor - wait," Park said. She could hear her dad in the kitchen and her heartbeat everywhere.
"Eleanor - wait - I love you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, quote from Eleanor & Park
“I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them.”
― Beatrice Sparks, quote from Go Ask Alice
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Graveyard Book
“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
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