City of Ghosts Quotes

“Embrace your strange, dear daughter. Where’s the fun in being normal?”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Every time I get nervous or scared, I remind myself that every good story needs twists and turns. Every heroine needs an adventure.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Stories have power," she says. "So long as you belive them.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Sometimes help is a place and sometimes it’s a person, and sometimes it’s a bit of both.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“There's a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“This is just a change of setting, a new storyline, a fresh chapter. We have a whole book to write," she says, squeezing me around the shoulders, "and how do we write it?"
"One page at a time", I say automatically.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“People think that ghosts only come out at night, or on Halloween, when the world is dark and the walls are thin. But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the middle of you grandmother's garden, in the front seat on your bus. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“One foot in winter and one in spring.
One foot with the living and one with the dead.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Nothing happens until it happens, and then it’s already happening.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“and every second you don’t look, your mind just makes it worse because in the end, what you don’t see is always scarier than what you do.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“our memories change, too. (For instance, I swear the teddy bear I had growing up was green, but according to my parents it was orange.) But when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be. Which is why I love pictures.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“When it comes to the strange and unexplained, it's important to keep an open mind.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“The living may take strength from love and hope, but the dead grow strong on darker things. On pain and anger and regret.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Stories have power,” she says. “So long as you believe them.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“I know you’re supposed to want to be one of the popular kids, but the truth is, I never have. It just seems like it would be exhausting, trying to keep up with all the rules.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Rule number sixteen of friendship,” I say. “Don’t go somewhere I can’t follow.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Ninth rule of friendship,” he says, “ghost-watching is a two-person sport.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“She bounces off with all the enthusiasm of someone rushing toward cake, not corpses.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Dad says that the world is always changing, every second of every day, and so is everything in it, which means that the you you are right now is different from the you you were when you started reading this sentence. Crazy, right? And your memories change, too. (For instance, I swear the teddy bear I had growing up was green, but according to my parents it was orange.) But when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“You don't think about how unnerving silence is until it's everywhere.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“But the very first rule of friendship is don’t keep secrets.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Rule number seven,” he says. “Don’t be nosy.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Rule number twenty-one of friendship,” says Jacob. “Don’t leave your friend in the Veil.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“No shame in being scared. But there’s a difference between being scared and being scared away.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Rule number thirty-three.” He says with a smile.
“Friends don’t let friends get trapped in reflections?”
“That’s the one.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Rule number six of friendship, Jacob. Friends don’t leave friends in the dark.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“Usually, she’s tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up stories.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“No offense, Cass, but I don't care about Lara's inner Hufflepuff.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“My camera was on the bedside table, the purple strap frayed and the viewfinder cracked. It was damaged but not ruined, changed but not destroyed. Kind of like me. A little special. A little strange.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts