Quotes From "The Archived" By Victoria Schwab

What if I mess up?"" Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me."" What's that?"" Stay alive long enough to mess up again. Victoria Schwab

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed. Victoria Schwab

His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks." Required reading, " I say." It's a shame they do that, " he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books. Victoria Schwab

Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I CAN be okay. I don't know if I should be allowed to be okay. Victoria Schwab

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory. Victoria Schwab

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Victoria Schwab

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. Victoria Schwab

The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once suspicion is planted it becomes exponentially harder to sell the next lie. Victoria Schwab

He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation. Victoria Schwab

Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die, ” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead. Victoria Schwab

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely. Victoria Schwab