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The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.
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Aren't you afraid of dying?" he asked Lila now.
She looked at him as if it were a strange quest...
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But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. The...
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There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing i...
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Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is t...
VICTORIA SCHWAB He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searchin...
VICTORIA SCHWAB You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.
VICTORIA SCHWAB People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done,...
VICTORIA SCHWAB We are the darkest acts made light.
VICTORIA SCHWAB She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison?"
He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing.
VICTORIA SCHWAB He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Monsters, monsters, big and small,
"They're gonna come and eat you all.
Corsai, Corsai, to...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.
VICTORIA SCHWAB It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easi...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The shared secret of our second lives hangs between us, not like a weight, but like a lifeline.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Wes hits the table. "You broke into a crime scene without me?"
"Be glad, Wes, or we would have ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.
VICTORIA SCHWAB The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
VICTORIA SCHWAB He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
VICTORIA SCHWAB It hurts,” he whispered.
“What does?” asked Kate.
“Being. Not being. Giving in. ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a k...
VICTORIA SCHWAB ―Self-righteousness,- Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, ―He heals. It‘s ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.
VICTORIA SCHWAB There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Sing you a song and steal your soul.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impre...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.
VICTORIA SCHWAB I don’t want to be forgotten.
VICTORIA SCHWAB There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I watch you, and it's like watching two people.
VICTORIA SCHWAB ―We could be dead- said Eli.
―That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Victor didn't want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best.
VICTORIA SCHWAB The world resists, when you break its rules.
VICTORIA SCHWAB If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?

He t...
VICTORIA SCHWAB There are no good men in this game.
VICTORIA SCHWAB All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.
VICTORIA SCHWAB He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other p...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
VICTORIA SCHWAB What if I mess up?"

"Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break thi...
VICTORIA SCHWAB It’s okay to not be okay,” she says. “When you’ve been through things—whatever those thing...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movem...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB What are you?" she asked. "A monster," said Kell hoarsely. "You'd better let me go." The girl gave a...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Where did you get this?" he asked.
"In a pocket in your coat," said Lila, stretching. "By the w...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Time isn't the same for the mad and the blind.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Word of mouth was its own kind of magic.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate.
VICTORIA SCHWAB You have a house if not a home," she spat. "You have people who care for you if not about you. You m...
VICTORIA SCHWAB He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fix...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Bad magic, Kell had called it.
No, thought Lila now. Clever magic.
An...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Hesitation is the death of advantage.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.
Even if he could never be human.
He wan...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Sounds—the stretched-out, far-off kind—drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to b...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living.
VICTORIA SCHWAB His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Infern...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Lying is easy. But it's lonely."
"What do you mean?"
"When you lie to everyone about every...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's a...
VICTORIA SCHWAB A good person always see the positive sites of other people
VICTORIA Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.
KLAUS SCHWAB For many years prior to the 1990s, European integration was embraced and supported by a large majori...
KLAUS SCHWAB You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha...
CHARLES SCHWAB She straightened. “You tried to seduce me, for information.”
“You can’t hold that again...
V.E. SCHWAB Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.
V.E. SCHWAB Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn’t let go. Caring hurt more than a knife t...
V.E. SCHWAB Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far...
CHARLES SCHWAB As Athera. To grow.

As Pyrata. To burn.

As Illumae. To light.

As Or...
V.E. SCHWAB I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting yo...
V.E. SCHWAB I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. ...
V.E. SCHWAB Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their em...
KLAUS SCHWAB The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used ...
KLAUS SCHWAB Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesse...
KLAUS SCHWAB One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on th...
KLAUS SCHWAB The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through...
KLAUS SCHWAB We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge rese...
KLAUS SCHWAB The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalizat...
KLAUS SCHWAB Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provid...
KLAUS SCHWAB An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a f...
KLAUS SCHWAB A lot of these are drug related, but until we get to the root of the problem, in fact, we don't know...
BETTY SCHWAB There's been approximately 11 or 12 within the last month in the German Village area.
BETTY SCHWAB He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.
BETTY SCHWAB He had a gun, came around the corner and demanded the teller give him the cash, and as for the safe,...
BETTY SCHWAB Anyone that hits anything, you would know that you've hit something. You need to stop and at least c...
BETTY SCHWAB We are working very hard at collecting any kind of evidence and looking at places that we probably n...
BETTY SCHWAB As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to...
KLAUS SCHWAB Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constr...
KLAUS SCHWAB New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways tha...
KLAUS SCHWAB I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth gr...
CHARLES SCHWAB There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, ...
CHARLES SCHWAB Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the ...
CHARLES SCHWAB I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. ...
CHARLES SCHWAB Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's ...
V.E. SCHWAB Europe has grown to 27 member states, encompassing an amazing diversity and richness. Some argue thi...
KLAUS SCHWAB In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one so...
KLAUS SCHWAB I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all togeth...
CHARLES SCHWAB A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
CHARLES SCHWAB I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.
V.E. SCHWAB Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
CHARLES SCHWAB I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorab...
KLAUS SCHWAB I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that ...
KLAUS SCHWAB I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a fla...
CHARLES SCHWAB On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grand...
CHARLES SCHWAB I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold...
CHARLES SCHWAB The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity's traditional sources of meaning - work...
KLAUS SCHWAB I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissan...
KLAUS SCHWAB Sometimes, if a country's currency is overvalued in real terms, and it looks like the current ac...
KLAUS SCHWAB For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it...
KLAUS SCHWAB The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it cre...
KLAUS SCHWAB Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a compa...
KLAUS SCHWAB I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 e...
CHARLES SCHWAB Strength and weakness are tangled things,” the Aven Essen had said. “They look so much alike, we...
V.E. SCHWAB Lila smiled at that, one of those smiles that made Kell profoundly nervous. The kind of smile usuall...
V.E. SCHWAB They don't have IT departments. Whatever you build cannot be overly complex.
DAN SCHWAB President Bush spoke of the risks of economic isolation and the critical importance of American comp...
SUSAN SCHWAB The immediate temptation would have been to cancel our Forum in Egypt next month, but for the sake o...
KLAUS SCHWAB Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.
KLAUS SCHWAB The driver of the car wrecked into a tree, then took off. We made the apprehension at Maple Canyon a...
BETTY SCHWAB They were able to load some stuff in the car and I don't know what property was taken.
BETTY SCHWAB There's a huge market for copper, aluminum. There's a market in the foreign countries for that, so t...
BETTY SCHWAB As a tool to investigate people, we have a lot more hoops to jump through than just you wanting to p...
BETTY SCHWAB Really, in the whole scheme of things, (these cases are) rare. Hopefully, the churches, whoever hire...
BETTY SCHWAB We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology complet...
KLAUS SCHWAB It's been a good season. We're the only team practicing in North Dakota.
DUANE SCHWAB The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and...
KLAUS SCHWAB The large seat is needed so the operator can control it. Put an extra person on there, and it interf...
CHUCK SCHWAB I think it is very clear that we are not going to have a successful outcome for the Doha Round, unle...
SUSAN SCHWAB After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.
V.E. SCHWAB Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.
V.E. SCHWAB She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.
V.E. SCHWAB There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.
V.E. SCHWAB Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you.
V.E. SCHWAB Anoshe was a word for strangers in the street, and lovers between meetings, for parents and children...
V.E. SCHWAB New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people fo...
KLAUS SCHWAB We have chosen China for our Global Industry Summit because we believe that China is well positioned...
KLAUS SCHWAB But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just...
V.E. SCHWAB It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the c...
V.E. SCHWAB «This is why I run.»
Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let g...
V.E. SCHWAB Wait, so is it waves, or doors, or conversations?"
"It can be anything you like."
"You're ...
V.E. SCHWAB Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.
V.E. SCHWAB Are you as famous in your world as Kell is here?”
Lila thought of the wanted posters lining h...
V.E. SCHWAB Magic ran between them like a current, a cord, and he wondered who she would have been if she’d st...
V.E. SCHWAB Don't get yourself killed."
"I'll do my best," said Kell, and then he was going.
"And come...
V.E. SCHWAB Are you ready ?" she asked, spinning the chamber.
Kell gazed through the gate at the waiting ca...
V.E. SCHWAB We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do.
V.E. SCHWAB Well, the world is full of surprises. And shadow kings. And curses. Coffee?
V.E. SCHWAB Arnesians had a dozen ways to say hello, but no word for good-bye.
When it came to parting ways...
V.E. SCHWAB A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son.
V.E. SCHWAB Delilah Bard never read many books.
The few she did had pirates and thieves, and always ended w...
V.E. SCHWAB One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.
V.E. SCHWAB I'm sorry I left. I'm sorry. But I'm here now, so you can't die,” he said, his voice finally break...
V.E. SCHWAB Magic made everything feel so impermanent, it was easy to forget that some things, once changed, cou...
V.E. SCHWAB Rhy shook his head, exasperated. “Kell isn't the only one you fail to understand. My bond with him...
V.E. SCHWAB Then why are you smiling?” “Because,” she said, “bad ideas are my favorite kind.
V.E. SCHWAB And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to...
V.E. SCHWAB A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds...
V.E. SCHWAB And then his arms were folding around her, and in that small gesture, she understood, felt it down t...
V.E. SCHWAB Death comes for us all," said Holland evenly. "I would simply have mine mean something.
V.E. SCHWAB Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world—...
V.E. SCHWAB In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB On vis och," he told himself.

Dawn to dusk. A phrase that meant two things in his native ...
V.E. SCHWAB Myths do not happen all at once.
They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slow...
V.E. SCHWAB I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify m...
V.E. SCHWAB I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I...
V.E. SCHWAB Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a co...
V.E. SCHWAB A low whistle behind him as Alucard appeared at the entrance.
'Picking out a gift?' asked the c...
V.E. SCHWAB What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy.
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the...
V.E. SCHWAB She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying....
V.E. SCHWAB Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the...
V.E. SCHWAB Her goal is to be a champion tennis player. She's a former No. 1 junior player in the world. She con...
DAVID SCHWAB I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them al...
CHARLES SCHWAB She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe...
V.E. SCHWAB Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional ...
KLAUS SCHWAB Ah, there you are, Bard,” came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.
V.E. SCHWAB When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operati...
CHARLES SCHWAB We can talk in the abstract about what a rebuilt New Orleans would look like. In the end that is not...
JIM SCHWAB Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has oft...
KLAUS SCHWAB I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. ...
CHARLES SCHWAB You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usual...
V.E. SCHWAB The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
V.E. SCHWAB You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, ...
V.E. SCHWAB Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
V.E. SCHWAB The results don't mean we Germans can just show up at the Olympics and pick up our medals -- but onc...
THOMAS SCHWAB For someone who never stood still, Lila felt like a pin in Kell's world. One he was sure to snag on.
V.E. SCHWAB As the physical, digital, and biological worlds continue to converge, new technologies and platforms...
KLAUS SCHWAB As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedd...
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