What are you?" she asked. "A monster," said Kell hoarsely. "You'd better let me go." The girl gave a small, mocking laugh. "Monsters don't faint in the presence of ladies." "Ladies don't dress like men and pick pockets," retorted Kell. Her smile only sharpened. "What are you really?" "Tied to your bed," said Kell matter-of-factly. "And?" His brow furrowed. "And in trouble.


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I think it is very clear that we are not going to have a successful outcome for the Doha Round, unle...
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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...
KLAUS SCHWAB