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“Why would you even want to be human? We’re fragile. We die.”
“You also live. You don’t spend every day wondering why you exist,but don’t feel real, why you look human, but can’t be. You don’t do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you’re not a person at all.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Monsters, monsters, big and small,” she sang cheerfully. “They’re gonna come and eat you all.” A shiver ran through him. “Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw, Shadow and bone will eat you raw. Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly, Smile and bite and drink you dry.” August swallowed hard, knowing what came next. “Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal, Sing you a song and steal your soul.” The little girl’s smile grew even wider. “Monsters, monsters, big and small, They’re gonna come and eat you all!” She”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“It’s Katherine, right?”
“Kate,” she said.
“Frederick?”
“Freddie,” he corrected.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“I am not a monster, that’s what he wanted to say, but he couldn’t. He hadn’t found a way to make it true”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Every weakness exposes flesh, and flesh invites a knife.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Safe," she said with a hollow smile. "That is a pretty word." "Come on," snapped Kate beside the door. "But--" "Don't worry, August. I'm not afraid of the dark." Our sister has two sides. He took Ilsa's face in his hands. "Please be careful." They do not meet. "Go," she said. "Before the cracks catch up.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Monsters, monsters, big and small,
"They're gonna come and eat you all.
Corsai, Corsai, tooth and claw,
Shadow and bone will eat you raw.
Malchai, Malchai, sharp and sly,
Smile and bite and drink you dry.
Sunai, Sunai, eyes like coal,
Sing you a song and steal your soul.
Monsters, monsters, big and small,
They're gonna come and eat you all!”
― Victoria schwab, This Savage Song

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“He could be the monster if it kept others human.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“It hurts,” he whispered.
“What does?” asked Kate.
“Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.” Kate tipped her head back against the tub. “That’s life, August,” she said. “You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re monster or human. Living hurts.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“I'd rather be able to see the truth than live a lie.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.
Even if he could never be human.
He wanted the chance to matter.
He wanted to live.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights,” she said, shimmying along the edge.
“Not heights,” he murmured. “Just falling.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Listen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”
She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”
“You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."

She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm?”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Every weakness is a place to slide a knife.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Monsters,” he said slowly, “all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are all divided by your morals and your pride. What do I think? I think that if you cannot come together, you cannot win.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Everyone was made of sounds, and August had learned hers the first day they met.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It’s important that they see us. See you. It’s important that they know you’re on their side.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar—
Everyone groaned, including August.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Doesn’t do much good,” she’d said, “to fear one kind of death and not another.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet