Victoria Schwab quotes:

You really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true.

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.

Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.

You're trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn't about pushing everything out. It's just about pulling yourself in.

doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

But the things about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.

The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.Why do you want to die?I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.

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.