Catherine

“She has seen maps of course, but ink and paper hold nothing to this. To the salt smell, the murmur of waves, the hypnotic draw of the tide. To the scope and scale of the sea, and the knowledge that somewhere, beyond the horizon, there is more.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The world is wide, and he’s seen so little of it with his own eyes. He wants to travel, to take photos, listen to other people’s stories, maybe make some of his own. After all, life seems very long sometimes, but he knows it will go so fast, and he doesn’t want to miss a moment.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Addie straightens, lifts her chin, smiles with an almost defiant kind of joy.
'But isn't it wonderful,' she says, 'to be an idea?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She wanted to want it, to feel what the other girls felt.
But she didn't. And yet, Olivia is full of want. She wants a bed that does not creak. A room without Anabelles or matrons or ghouls. A window and a grassy view and air that does not taste of soot and a father who does not die and a mother who does not leave and a future beyond the walls of Merilance.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant