Amber Cook > Amber's Quotes

“Life can feel so long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Addie," he breathes, and the sound sends sparks across her skin, and when he kisses her, he tastes like salt, and summer. But it feels too much like a punctuation mark, and she isn't ready for the night to end, so she kisses him back, deeper, turns the period into a question, into an answer.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“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

“Nothing like stars to show us our little arguments are meaningless.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“The horrific crush of humanity on my soul. Haven’t you ever felt it?” “I think I have—in Walmart.” “Yes! That place is the worst!”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“Once you kill another human being there is no going back… it’s a bit like being reborn, I suppose. But no ordinary birth—it’s a metamorphosis. What emerges from the ashes is not a phoenix, but an uglier creature: deformed, incapable of flight, a predator using its claws to cut and rip.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

“any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I don’t quite understand how you can love somebody so much, yet so frequently want to throttle them.”
― Freida McFadden, The Inmate

“There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine and a sense that I must stay.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

“We live in an age of mass murder, and two dead bodies, even young ones, just don’t cut it, anymore.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is freedom. In water there is bacteria.”
― R. Hatfield

“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
― William Goldman

“Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“Do not mistake this kindness. I simply want to be the one who breaks you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“...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

“sometimes bad things happen to make good things happen.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding petty resentments.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“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

“Remy Laurent is laughter bottled into skin. It spills out of him at every turn.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Sorry, Book," she mutters, lifting the cat gingerly onto the back of the old chair, where he does his best impression of an inconvenienced bread loaf.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She fell in love with the darkness many times, fell in love with a human once.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And this, he decides, is what a good-bye should be. Not a period, but an ellipsis, a statement trailing off, until someone is there to pick it up. It is a door left open. It is drifting off to sleep.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue