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“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully or not. It's a part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Hesitation is the death of advantage.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“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, A Darker Shade of Magic

“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Aren't you afraid of dying?" he asked Lila now.
She looked at him as if it were a strange question. And then she shook her head. "Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“They danced in silence for several long moments, spinning together and apart, a slower version of their cadence in the ring. And then, out of nowhere, Lila asked, “Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why did you ask me to dance?”
He almost smiled. A ghost. A trick of the light. “So you couldn’t run away again before I said hello.”
“Hello,” said Lila.
“Hello,” said Kell. “Where have you been?”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.”
― 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 if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost