All Things Schwab

And so it begins @victoriaveschwab

(Excerpt from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

“They will stay the night in a local inn, and for the first time in her life, Adeline will sleep in a foreign bed, and wake to foreign sounds and smells, and there will be a moment, as brief as a yawn, when she won’t know where she is, and her heart will quicken—first with fear, and then with something else. Something she does not have the words for yet.

snippet from THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by @victoriaveschwab :

“Why would anyone trade a lifetime of talent for a few years of glory?”

(Excerpt from THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LA RUE)

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.

“Adeline is sixteen now, and everyone speaks of her as if she is a summer bloom,something to be plucked, and propped within a case, intended only to flower, and then to rot. Like Isabelle, who dreams of family instead of freedom, and seems content to briefly blossom and then wither.

“When Addie was young, she would surge up the slopes that rose and fell around Villon, fling herself to the very edge of the hill, the place where the ground fell away, and stop, heart racing as her body leaned forward, longing for the fall.

“The slightest push, and weight would do the rest.

“There is no steep hill beneath her now, no slope, and yet, she feels her balance tilt.

“And then, Estele’s voice rises to meet her in the dark.

“How do you walk to the end of the world? she once asked. And when Addie didn’t know, the old woman smiled that wrinkled grin, and answered.

“One step at a time.

“Addie is not going to the end of the world, but she must go somewhere, and in that moment, she decides.

She is going to Paris.”

And so it begins @victoriaveschwab

(Excerpt from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

“They will stay the night in a local inn, and for the first time in her life, Adeline will sleep in a foreign bed, and wake to foreign sounds and smells, and there will be a moment, as brief as a yawn, when she won’t know where she is, and her heart will quicken—first with fear, and then with something else. Something she does not have the words for yet.

snippet from THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by @victoriaveschwab :

“Why would anyone trade a lifetime of talent for a few years of glory?”

(Excerpt from THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LA RUE)

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.

“Adeline is sixteen now, and everyone speaks of her as if she is a summer bloom,something to be plucked, and propped within a case, intended only to flower, and then to rot. Like Isabelle, who dreams of family instead of freedom, and seems content to briefly blossom and then wither.