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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
“...it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does.”
“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
“What she needs are stories. Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget. Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books. Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
“A dreamer,” scorns her mother. “A dreamer,” mourns her father. “A dreamer,” warns Estele. Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
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