It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god. And an arrogant god, thought Tiered, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.

— V.E. Schwab

It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn’t know how deep they were buried until they were gone, and you were bleeding on the floor.

— V.E. Schwab

Lila backed away toward the curtain. "Do you just... stand here until I need you?" The woman smiled and dug a volume from a pocket. "I have a book."" Let me guess, a religious text?"" Actually," said Sister, perching on the low couch, "it's about pirates." Lila smiled.

— V.E. Schwab

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

— V.E. Schwab

Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers' imagination after all.

— V.E. Schwab

Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell.

— V.E. Schwab

Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halves of a whole. If anyone tried to part them, they'd both unravel.

— V.E. Schwab

Magic was a truly beautiful disease.

— V.E. Schwab

My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird." Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.

— V.E. Schwab

My point, continued Why, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and me.

— V.E. Schwab