N.G. Peltier > N.G.'s Quotes

“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, 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.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“I’ve been thinking.”

“A dangerous pursuit.”

“Indeed.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“His lips linger on mine, urgent and warm.
Lasting.
And then he pulls away, breath ragged. His hand falls from my skin, and I understand.
He’s not wearing his ring.
He didn’t just kiss me.
He read me.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“Smiling is the worst thing you can do if you want the world to think you're okay when you're not. Some people can't help it - it's like a tic, a tell - and others do it on purpose, thinking people will buy whatever they're selling if it comes with a flash of teeth. But the truth is, smiling only makes a lie harder to pass off. It's like a giant crack in the front of a mask.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Unbound

“...I like to be around all these books. They’re very good at making you forget your troubles. It’s like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink”
― Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight

“But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it.”
― Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight

“Memories make us who we are,” he said. “Without them, we are nothing.”
― Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight

“All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who’d just caught prey— which boded ill for Silverspires.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The House of Shattered Wings

“I wish I didn’t love your stupid ass so much.”
― Santino Hassell, Sutphin Boulevard

“I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that’ll make me come my brains out, of course I’m curious. But I’m never gonna go there, because gross.”
― Amy Jo Cousins, Off Campus