The Shades of Magic Series Quotes

“Kell frowned. 'I've never met anyone like you.'
He hadn't meant it as a compliment but Lila took it that way, flashing him a grin. 'What can I say,' she said, 'I'm one of a kind.'
Well managed an echo of her smile, and she gasped. 'What's that on your face?'
The smile vanished. 'What?'
'Never mind,'she said, laughing. 'It's gone.' Kell only shook his head--he didn't grasp the joke--but whatever it was, it seemed to delight Lila, and she chuckled to herself all the way to whit bury.”
― V. E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic 3 books set: Darker Shade of Magic / A Gathering of Shadows / A Conjuring of Light

“He was little more than a silhouette, a simplified portrait of a nobleman.
A picture of what someone should be, not what they were.”
― V. E. Schwab, Shades of Magic Collector's Editions Boxed Set

“We all believe the same thing really, we simply give it different names. Hardly a crime.”
― V. E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series

“Lila felt Esa twine around her leg, and resisted the urge to kick the cat.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series

“It does nothing to dwell on what’s been taken from you,”
― V.E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series

“What do you think your London did, when the darkness came? When Osaron’s magic consumed his world, and threatened to take ours with it? You traded away our world’s safety for your own, locked the doors and trapped us between the raging water and the rocks. How does it feel now?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series

“You should have let me go to the masquerade instead. Now my plaything is dead, and yours has made an awful mess. What do you have to say for yourself?”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic 3 books set: Darker Shade of Magic / A Gathering of Shadows / A Conjuring of Light

“A small grateful smile crossed Kell's lips. And then Lila dug the stone out of her pocket and held it up, and Kell let out a dismayed sound and swallowed her hand with his, hiding the stone from sight. Something flickered through his eyes when he touched her, but se didn't think it was her tough that had moved him. The stone gave a strange little shudder in her hand, as if it felt Kell and wanted to be within. Lila felt vaguely insulted.”
― V. E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series

“Despite a wealth of natural magic and years of rigorous study alongside the Aven Essen, Kell didn’t know everything there was to know about spells. He knew that, but it was still disconcerting to be surrounded by so much evidence in support of the fact.”
― V. E. Schwab, The Shades of Magic Series