Vicious Quotes

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Whenno oneunderstands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?

He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“There are no good men in this game.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Because you don't think I'm a bad person," he said. "And I don't want to prove you wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words.

"I'll go first.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“The world resists, when you break its rules.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make them, in their own eyes, immortal. Which of course they're not, but what's the saying? We are all immortal until proven otherwise?”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Victor didn't want to run while Eli was busy trying to fly.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Picking the best solution really depended on your definition of best.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Serena hadn't told Sydney to gohome.She hadn't told her to runaway.She told her to go somewheresafe.And over the course of the last week,safehad ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.

Specifically,safehad become Victor.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I watch you, and it's like watching two people.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I don’t want to be forgotten.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequences.”
― V. E. Schwab, Vicious

“There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touched. And then, there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren't in their way. And whoever Victor Vale was, whatever he was, and whatever he was up to, the only thing Mitch knew was that he didnotwant to be in his way.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impression he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“I have a hacker, a half-dead dog, and a child. It’s hardly an arsenal.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious