Chloe Herscher > Chloe's Quotes

“What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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

“How do you know when the Sarows is coming?
(Is coming is coming is coming aboard)
When the wind dies away but still sings in your ears,
(In your ears in your head in your blood in your bones.)
When the current goes still but the ship, it drifts along,
(Drifts on drifts away drifts alone.)
When the moon and the stars all hide from the dark,
(For the dark is not empty at all at all.)
(For the dark is not empty at all.)
How do you know when the Sarows is coming?
(Is coming is coming is coming aboard)
Why you don't and you don't and you won't see it coming,
(You won't see it coming at all.)”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab

“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

“Delilah Bard,” she said. “We’ve met before. And you looked worse.”
Rhy laughed silently. “I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg,” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
Rhy broke into his perfect smile. “I like this one,” he said to Kell. “Can I borrow her?”
“You can try,” said Lila, raising a brow. “But you’ll be a prince without his fingers.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Purity without balance is its own corruption.”
― V.E. Schwab

“Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“The queen considered him, her pale lips curling at the edges. “The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“She had her eyes on one ship in particular, had been watching, coveting, all day. It was a gorgeous vessel, its hull and masts carved from dark wood and trimmed in silver, its sails shifting from midnight blue to black, depending on the light. A name ran along its hull—Saren Noche—and she would later learn that it meant Night Spire. For now she only knew that she wanted it. But she couldn’t simply storm a fully manned craft and claim it as her own. She was good, but she wasn’t that good. And then there was the grim fact that Lila didn’t technically know how to sail.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Show the Sarows some respect,”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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

“Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. “Holy shit.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“If anyone could make the strange seem ordinary, the impossible look easy, it was Delilah Bard”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“We could be dead,’ said Eli.
'That’s a risk everyone takes by living.”
― V.E. Schwab

“Lila had discovered that the hardest part of her charade was pretending that everything was old hat when it was all so new, being forced to feign the kind of nonchalance that only comes from a lifetime of knowing and taking for granted. Lila was a quick study, and she knew how to keep up a front; but behind the mask of disinterest, she took in everything. She was a sponge, soaking up the words and customs, training herself to see something once and be able to pretend she’d seen it a dozen—a hundred—times before.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Time isn't the same for the mad and the blind.”
― Victoria 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

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“My life is mine to spend," she said. "And I will not spend it here, no matter how nice your city is, or how much safer it might be. We had a deal, Kell. And now you have Tieren to guard your story and heal your brother. I'm of no use to him. Let me be of use to you.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Oh yes, your relationship with Miss Bard is positively ordinary."
"Be quiet."
"Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Everyone’s immortal until they’re not.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Magic is tangled, so you must be smooth.
Magic is wild, so you must be tame.
Magic is chaos, so you must be calm.
Are you calm, Kell?”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. And we control the music.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes