A Darker Shade of Magic
Victoria Schwab
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Hesitation is the death of advantage.”
“He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the time they were places. But sometimes, rarely, they were people. For someone who never stood still, Lila felt like a pin in Kell's world. One he was sure to snag on.”
“The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.”
“Aren't you afraid of dying?" he asked Lila now. She looked at him as if it were a strange question. And then she shook her head. "Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
“Bad magic, Kell had called it.No, thought Lila now. Clever magic. And clever was more dangerous than bad any day of the week.”
“But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.”
“You have a house if not a home," she spat. "You have people who care for you if not about you. You may not have everything you want, but I'd wager you have everything you could ever need, and you have the audacity to claim it all forfeit because it is not love." "I--" "Love doesn't keep us from freezing to death, Kell," she continued, "or starving, or being knifed for the coins in our pocket. Love doesn't buy us anything, so be glad for what you have and who you have because you may want for things but you need nothing.”
“Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.Why do you want to die?I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.”
“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.”
“Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate.”
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bodies, live, trouble, tea, humor, knowing, lila, kell, people, miserable, lila-bard, die, ruthlessness
