{"author":"V.E. Schwab","author_id":"V.E.+Schwab","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn’t know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["caring","delilah-bard"],"id":331,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"A queen could leave her t.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["emira","mother","queen","rhy"],"id":6911,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"I know where you sleep, Bard.' She smirked. 'Then you know I sleep with knives.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["fantasy"],"id":13269,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"Myths do not happen all at once. They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own. But all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["myths","rhy","stories"],"id":15012,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"No one suffers as beautifully as you do.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["a-conjuring-of-light","holland","suffering"],"id":26969,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn’t that simple. Maybe it wasn’t a matter of what she didn’t have, of what she wasn’t, but what she was.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["eagerness","inspirational","lila-bard","longing","magic"],"id":32704,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"Blood was magic made manifest. There it thrived. And there it poisoned. Kell had seen what happened when power warred with the body, watched it darken in the veins of corrupted men, turning their blood from crimson to black. If red was the color of magic in balance---of harmony between power and humanity---then black was the color of magic without balance, without order, without restraint.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["magic"],"id":39874,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halves of a whole. If anyone tried to part them, they'd both unravel.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["magic"],"id":46264,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["hurt","protection","sydney","victor"],"id":51803,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"},{"text":"Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on.”Calla raised a brow. “You do not think Master Kell knows how?","author":"V.E. Schwab","tags":["funny"],"id":54744,"author_id":"V.E.+Schwab"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}