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  • #1
    Victoria Schwab
    “Listen to me." Her voice is urgent now. "Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast." Her eyes are glassy with tears, but she is smiling. "You better live a good life, Henry Strauss.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #2
    Victoria Schwab
    “Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #3
    Victoria Schwab
    “...it is sad, of course, to forget.
    But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
    To remember when no one else does.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #4
    Victoria Schwab
    “Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #5
    Victoria Schwab
    “Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #6
    Victoria Schwab
    “That time always ends a second before you’re ready.

    That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #7
    Victoria Schwab
    “And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
    Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
    Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
    And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #8
    Victoria Schwab
    “The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #9
    Victoria Schwab
    “But if you only walk in other people's steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #10
    Victoria Schwab
    “Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #11
    Victoria Schwab
    “Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #12
    Victoria Schwab
    “And then he whispers three words into her hair. “I love you,” he says, and Addie wonders if this is love, this gentle thing. If it is meant to be this soft, this kind. The difference between heat, and warmth. Passion, and contentment. “I love you too,” she says. She wants it to be true.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #13
    Victoria Schwab
    “To find a way, or make your own.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #14
    Victoria Schwab
    “history is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just... living.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #15
    Victoria Schwab
    “Funny, how some people take an age to warm, and others simply walk into every room as if it’s home.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #16
    Victoria Schwab
    “You can’t make people love you, Hen. If it’s not a choice, it isn’t real.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #17
    Victoria Schwab
    “Homesick—Henry knows that one is supposed to mean sick for home, not from it, but it still feels right. He loves his family, he does. He just doesn’t always like them. Doesn’t like who he is around them.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #18
    Victoria Schwab
    “But you have to let them see you as you are. You have to find people who see you.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #19
    Victoria Schwab
    “It will hurt. And it will pass. All things do.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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