#v.e. schwab

[thehopefulquotes]

Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.

V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

[typingwithmyhandstied]

Me when a V.E. Schwab character exists: Now that's a character. That's a CHARACTER. THAT'S A CHARACTER.

[thoughtkick]

Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.

V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

[quotefeeling]

Walking away had been easy. Not looking back was harder.

V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

[torpublishinggroup]

#1 NYT bestselling author V.E. Schwab returns to the dazzling worlds of Shades of Magic with a fantastical, perilous, and intrigue-tangled new series-starter: The Fragile Threads of Power, with commissioned artwork by lasq.draws.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Once, the four worlds sat nestled like pages in a book, connected with fantastical power to a single city: London. But the magic pulsed. It grew too fast, and the doors between worlds were sealed in a desperate gamble at protection.

The few magicians able to open these doors grew rarer as time passed, and now only three are known in recent memory. Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk of White London have hardly been glimpsed for the last seven years. A new magician rises to claim the throne of White London: She is Kosika, who burns with religious fervor and will feed her city with blood, including her own.

And back in Red London, King Rhy Maresh is threatened by a rising rebellion, one that promises to correct the power by razing the throne entirely.

These two royals from very different empires face mirror struggles: Keep their crowns. Keep their heads. And amidst a tapestry of old friends and new enemies, a girl with unusual magic comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds.

Her name is Tes, and she will bring the worlds together, or unravel it all.

[sleepinginthelibrary]

Victor Vale.

[perfectquote]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[resqectable]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[stay-close]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[adamsrcnan]

cannot wait for victorious to come out and for victor to be hallucinating eli everywhere he goes the same way eli did with him in vengeful when he thought victor was dead because they're two sides of the same coin and one can never be without the other. even (and especially) in death.

[melodysbookhaven]

“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”

V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[thehopefulquotes]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[typingwithmyhandstied]

In my mind, "Kell wore a peculiar coat" will always be the best opening line to a book ever. I can remember when I read it for the first time.

[thoughtkick]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[darklinaforever]

“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

“It is because I love you that I won’t.”

I love these dialogues from Addies and Luc in the invisible life of addie larue. It totally represents two different perspectives on love.

Addie, like many people, thinks that love is purely selfless and good. (While she herself can have selfish actions or thoughts) Luc thinks that love is selfish, or at least can be. (Because to say that Luc is purely selfish would be quite hypocritical given all the events of the books and what he does there. Luc is much more complicated than that)

But I like that these two sentences summarize these two visions of love.

Love is selfless. Love is selfish. When in fact... it can be both, separately or together. Love can be something uniquely good and positive. Just as it can be negative. And sometimes it's both together. They are simply different forms of the same feeling.

All this to say that I hate when people try to say that love must be pure, good and selfless. It's bullshit. Whether in fiction or reality. The difference is that in fiction you can explore relationships with toxic connotations without risk, unlike real life or if there are red flags, you obviously have to just run to protect yourself.

Justice for romances like Luc & Addie, Jane Eyre & Rochester, Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights), Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Gray Bird (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Christine & Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Thomas & Edith (Crimson Peak), Hannibal & Will (Hannibal), Hannibal & Clarice (Hannibal), Raistlin & Crysania (Dragonlance), Sarah & Jareth (Labyrinth), Qu Xiao Feng & Li Cheng Yi (Goodbye My Princess), The Darkling & Alina (Grisha), Mare & Maven (Red Queen), Julian & Jenny (The Forbidden Game), and so so many others...

Not without kidding, there are so many examples in general, but also that I know and love that it is impossible to cite them all !

[quotefeeling]

Maybe we are broken. But we put ourselves back together. We survived. That’s what makes us so powerful.

V.E. Schwab, Vengeful