Vengeful Quotes

“Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful. And as for family—well, blood is always family, but family doesn’t always have to be blood.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“How many men would she have to turn to dust before one took her seriously?”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Victor stared at the wall as if it were still a window. “He doesn’t know how patient you are,” he said. “Doesn’t know you like I do.” Eli cleaned the blood from his hand. “No,” he said softly. “No one ever has.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“I don't want to survive. I want to thrive.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Some people were matches, a bit of light and no heat. And some were furnaces, all heat but little light. And then, once in a blue moon, there was a bonfire, something so hot and bright you couldn't stand too near without burning.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Ask nice. Play nice. Marcella was so fucking tired of nice.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Every end is a new beginning.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Ignorance is only bliss if you want to get caught.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Men look at anyone with power and see only a threat, an obstacle in their path. They never have the sense to see power for what it really is. Potential.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“A promise you can’t keep is just another lie”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“ONCE upon a time, when the marks on his back were still fresh, Eli told himself that he was growing wings.

After all, his mother thought Eli was an angel, even if his father said he had the devil in him.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“You look like Snow White killed the queen and stole the mirror.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a human versus a human or a human versus an EO or an EO versus an EO. You do what you can. You fight, and you win, until you don’t.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Knowledge may be power, but money buys both.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“The next time you point a gun at someone, make sure you’re ready to pull the trigger.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“When you think about it, it’s really all anyone ever wants. Once upon a time, power was determined by lineage—the age of blood. Then it was determined by money—the age of gold. But I think it’s time for a new age, Victor. The age of power itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Eli dragged his gaze away from the photo. “What are you going to do about him?”
“I’m going to find him. You two can each have a cell to rot in.”
“Oh, great,” said Eli dryly. “We can be neighbors.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Marcella sighed. “Men are always so impatient. Perhaps it comes from a lifetime of being given what you want, when you want it. Sometimes, Joseph, you just have to wait.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“She shook her head, baffled and amused. “Jesus, Marcella, anyone ever told you that you’re batshit crazy?” Marcella pursed her lips. “Several times,” she said. “It’s an insult men love to aim at ambitious women.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“I wanted us to do this, together. I'm not a fucking coat, Marcus. You don't get to check me at the door.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Turned toward Eli like a face toward a mirror. Like to like. It frightened and thrilled Eli, to be seen, and to see himself reflected. Not all of himself—they were still so different—but there was something vital, a core of the same precious metal glinting through the rock.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Every end may be a new beginning, but every beginning had to end”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“It was like a magnet, constantly drawing his eye, but Victor forced himself not to stop and look at it. Not to think about what it meant, that Eli Cardale was really, truly dead. The way the knowledge knocked Victor off-balance. A counterweight finally removed.
An opposite but equal force erased.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“She was nursing a beer in a glass bottle, and she was bored—bored by the music, and the boys who swaggered over every now and then to flirt, and then stormed away, sulking, when she turned them down. She was bored by being called beautiful, and then a bitch. Stunning, and then stuck up. A ten, and then a tease.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“The life I had is gone. There’s no getting it back. I’d rather make a new one. A better one. One where I don’t have to pretend to be weak to survive.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Eli had made a mistake. He wasn't prone to making mistakes, except where Victor Vale was concerned. Victor had always possessed the unnerving ability to get under Eli's skin, interrupt his focus.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Better to be friendly, without being friends.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Men.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

“It was just so easy.
As if everything had wanted to come apart.
There was probably some law about that.
Order giving way to chaos.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful