Gallant Quotes

“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me.
I would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you here.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Safe does not mean happy, does not mean well, does not mean kind.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Tired can be a kind of sick, if it lasts long enough.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Home is a choice.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Free-a small word for such a magnificent thing. I don't know what it feels like, but I want to find out.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“But the truth is, death is everywhere. Death comes for the roses and the apples, it comes for the mice and the birds. It comes for us all. Why should death stop us from living?”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“I am so happy. I am so scared.
The two, it turns out, can walk together, hand in hand.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Perhaps you are haunting me.
What a comforting thought.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“There is no rest in sleep.
These dreams will be the death of me.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“She knows too well what’s it like when people take one weakness and define you by it.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Put the right words into the world, never know what you’ll catch.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“I slept in your ashes last night.
It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“And dreams can never hurt you. That’s what her mother said. Of course, she knows now it isn’t true. Dreams can make you hurt yourself, dreams can make you do so many things, if you’re not careful.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“After all, you can choose a thing after it’s chosen you.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Olivia Prior has never been a quiet girl. She has always made a point of making noise, everywhere she goes, in part to remind people that just because she cannot speak, does not mean that she is silent, and in part because she simply likes the weight of sound, likes the way it takes up space.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“I have lived at Gallant all my life. But home is meant to be a choice. I did not choose this house. I am tired of being bound to it.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Perhaps you are haunting me. What a comforting thought. Maybe it's you in the darkness.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Every house has secrets”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Everything casts a shadow," he begins. "Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“She has declared it a reading day, she says. Nothing else to do when the weather turns.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“It does not matter what you want-the only way out is to be wanted by someone else.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Ash holds its shape until you touch it.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“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

“It was never this quiet when you were here. Isn’t that funny? How much sound a body makes. I hate the silence, hate the fact that I’m the only one making noise. I make so much of it, as if I can trick myself into thinking you’re here, just out of sight.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“How to exist in a world that does not want you. How to be a ghost in someone else’s home.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“As if love is all they need. As if they have been placed under a curse and only love will set them free. She does not see the point in that: love did not save her father from illness and death. It did not save her mother from madness and loss.
The girls say love, but what they really mean is want.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“A place this wild, the outside is always trying to get in.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“That is the trick with the ghouls. They want you to look, but they can’t stand being seen.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant