Kate Harker Quotes

“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 know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain."
"How?"
"By not letting go," she said softly. "By holding on, to anger, to hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting."
You, he thought.”
― V.E. Schwab, Our Dark Duet

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

“I spent a long time playing that game,” she said. “Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn’t, and you know what? It’s lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one’s ours. It’s all we’ve got.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I don’t know who I am, and who I’m not, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, and I miss who I was; I miss it every day, Kate, but there’s no place for that August anymore. No place for the version of me who wanted to go to school, and have a life, and feel human, because this world doesn’t need that August. It needs someone else.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

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

“Are you afraid of your own shadow?”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I live in a world where shadows have teeth. It's not a particularly relaxing environment.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“There's a big difference between can't and won't.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“The moment I met you, I knew you were different.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” she whispered. “Nice juicy human heart.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“And the memory of stardust and open fields, of bleachers and black-and-white cats and apples in the woods, of tally marks and music, of running and burning, and the desperate, hopeless desire to feel human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Come out, little Katherine, he’d say. Let’s play a game.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet