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A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab (Author of The Archived)

“A death is traumatic. Vivid enough to mark any surface, to burn in like light on photo paper.” (The Archived Quotes)

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The Archived
The Archived

“And besides, if my soul’s impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out.”

V. E. Schwab
The Archived

“Because the only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”

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The Archived

“But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.”

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The Archived

“But once you know, you can’t go back. Not really. You can carve out someone’s memories, but they won’t be who they were before. They’ll just be full of holes. Given the choice, I’d rather learn to live with what I know.”

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The Archived

“Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. Sympathy leads to hesitation. Hesitation will get you killed.”

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The Archived

“Everything is valuable, in its own way. Everything is full of history.”

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The Archived

“Free caffeine and sugar, a recipe for making friends.”

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The Archived

“He fought the men and he slayed the monsters and he bested the gods, and at last the hero, having conquered all, earned the thing that he wanted most. To go home.”

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The Archived

“He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.”

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The Archived

“I am a horrible hollow kind of tired; all I want is quiet and rest.”

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The Archived

“I left a ball of Oreo filling out for months one time. It never got hard. Lot of unnatural things in the world.”

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The Archived

“I pull the key from around my neck and slip it into the hole beneath my brother’s card. It doesn’t turn. It never turns. But I never stop trying.”

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The Archived

“I want the things most people don’t notice. The ring and the key and the way you have of wearing everything on the inside.”

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The Archived

“I watch him fight back a smile and lose. What comes through isn’t smug, or even crooked. It’s proud. And I can’t help it. I smile a little too.”

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The Archived

“If Mom was feeling ambitious, she scribbled a small list of items beneath the word, but seeing as her handwriting is virtually illegible, we won’t know what’s in each box until we actually open it. Like Christmas. Except we already own everything.”

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The Archived

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

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The Archived

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.”

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The Archived

“It takes at least three assassination attempts to scare me off. And even then, if there are baked goods involved, I might come back.”

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The Archived

“It’s not that Mom didn’t keep anything, it’s that she kept the wrong things. We leave memories on objects we love and cherish, things we use and wear down.”

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The Archived

“Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.”

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The Archived
The Archived

“More of a cookie person, myself. No offense to the other baked goods. I just like cookies.”

V. E. Schwab
The Archived

“One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can’t control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, “To hang out with Wesley.”

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The Archived

“Only fools and cowards scorned fear. Fear keeps you alive.”

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The Archived

“The Archive makes us monsters. And then it breaks the ones who get too strong, and buries the ones who know too much.”

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The Archived

“The Archive means that the past is never gone. Never lost. Knowing that, it’s freeing. It gave me permission to always look forward. After all, we have our own Histories to write.”

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The Archived

“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.”

V. E. Schwab
The Archived

“The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”

V. E. Schwab
The Archived

“The silliest things shatter you. A T-shirt discovered behind the washing machine. A toy that rolled under a cabinet in the garage, forgotten until someone drops something and goes to fetch it, and suddenly they’re on the concrete floor sobbing into a dusty baseball mitt.”

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The Archived

“The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn’t about pushing everything out. It’s just about pulling yourself in.”

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The Archived

“We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it.”

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The Archived
The Archived

“When he touches me there is nothing but touch. There is no thought of wrong and no through of loss and no thought of anything, because thoughts can’t get through the static.”

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The Archived

“You know,” he says, “for someone who doesn’t like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me.”

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The Archived

“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.”

V. E. Schwab
The Archived

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