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“A person chose their path. Or they made a new one.” (A Gathering of Shadows Quotes)
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“At the sunroom doors, he cast a glance back, and found Rhy looking at him with an expression that might have been I’m sorry, but also could have been fuck off, or at the very least we’ll talk later.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“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
A Gathering of Shadows
“He dreamed of her hand tangling in his, a pulse of power twining them together. He dreamed of them racing through foreign streets, not the London ones they’d navigated, but crooks and bends in places he’d never been, and ones he might never see. But there she was, at his side, pulling him toward freedom.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“If magic coursed through everyone and everything, was that what it felt like when it found itself again?”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“If these men worshipped anything, they worshipped magic, which she supposed would be heresy back in Grey London. But then again, Christians worshipped an old man in the sky, and if Lila had to say which one seemed more real at the moment, she’d have to side with magic.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“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
A Gathering of Shadows
“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
A Gathering of Shadows
“Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. And we control the music.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn’t that simple. Maybe it wasn’t a matter of what she didn’t have, of what she wasn’t, but what she was.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“Standing there on display was painful enough. Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“Strength and weakness are tangled things,” the Aven Essen had said. “They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“The key to all things be they magical or alcoholic, is moderation.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“The prince shrugged. “Who needs magic when you look this good?”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“They crashed into each other as if propelled by gravity, and he didn’t know which one of them was the object and which the earth, only that they were colliding. The kiss was Lila pressed into a single gesture. Her brazen pride and her stubborn resolve, her recklessness and her daring and her hunger for freedom. It was all those things, and it took Kell’s breath away.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“What a waste of life, to stand around and think so much on every little thing.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
“Whenever she felt the weight of those bonds, she wished she could take her sharpest knife and cut them free, carve out the part of her that wanted, that cared, that warmed at the feeling.”
V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
