Quotes from Vicious

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“There are no good men in this game.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words.

"I'll go first.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?

He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The world resists, when you break its rules.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Victor didn't want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“―We could be dead- said Eli.
―That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“I watch you, and it's like watching two people.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make them, in their own eyes, immortal. Which of course they're not, but what's the saying? We are all immortal until proven otherwise?”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequences.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touched. And then, there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren't in their way. And whoever Victor Vale was, whatever he was, and whatever he was up to, the only thing Mitch knew was that he did not want to be in his way.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“I don’t want to be forgotten.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If Eli was really a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were all really as stupid as they seemed). He wondered about Angie - what would happen if he told her how he felt, what it would be like if she chose him. He wondered about life, and people, and science, and magic, and God, and whether he believed in any of them.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious

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