V. E. Schwab famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Simple #People #Alive
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

#Life #Space #Important
I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Adventure #Standing Still #Stills
You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
-- V. E. Schwab

#War #Battle #May
It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Broken #Soul #Done
I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Female #Guards Up
I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc.), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Sibling #Thinking #Long
Purity without balance is its own corruption.
-- V. E. Schwab

#Balance #Corruption #Purity

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

V. E. Schwab famous quotes

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