Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for control. The act of taking, of breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive.

— V.E. Schwab

Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for the control. The act of taking, breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance.

— V.E. Schwab

Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.

— V.E. Schwab

Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I." "And that doesn't frighten you?" Why shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it.

— V.E. Schwab

Everyone's immortal until they're not.

— V.E. Schwab

Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.

— V.E. Schwab

For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.

— V.E. Schwab

He suffered," added Pathos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you.

— V.E. Schwab

He suffered," added Pathos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Pathos smiled, victorious.

— V.E. Schwab

I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.

— V.E. Schwab