Victoria Schwab, The Archived
11 quotes
"I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed."
"Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing," I say."Exactly."
"His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books."
"Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I CAN be okay. I don't know if I should be allowed to be okay."
"The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory."
"Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books."
"Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy."
"The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie."
"He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation."
"Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die,” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead."
"Lying is easy. But it’s lonely."