Top 120 Ava Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “She wanted to say I don’t believe you. She wanted to say thank you. She wanted to say tell me more about who I am because I don’t know anymore.”

— Ava Reid

102. “I’ve read your book a hundred times, maybe ore. It was a friend when I didn’t have any. IT was the only thing that said I was sane while the world was telling me I was mad. It saved me in more ways that I can count. Because I knew no matter how afraid I felt, I wasn’t truly alone.”

— Ava Reid

103. “Your life still depends on my survival. If the prince perishes on your watch, you’ll be the one to pay for it. Tell me, wolf-girl, who belongs to whom?”

— Ava Reid

104. “Let no one say that I am weak. I am fearful, and therefore brave. I am wounded, yet all the stronger for it.”

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105. “Our belief in a world that is just and perfect gives us strength to survive in a world that is anything but.”

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106. “But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.”

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107. “He is slippery like the cold side of a cliff. And layered, like striated bands of erosion, green and white and rust-colored lash-marks of the sea. Each time she thinks she knows him, the water level lowers, and another shade is revealed.”

— Ava Reid

108. “The land would never protest if the sea washed over it with what could not be called anything else but affection.”

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109. “When a crown falls, many arms reach out to catch it.”

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110. “Everyone changes their mind sometimes, as they should, or else they’re just, I don’t know, stubborn and ignorant. Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted.”

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111. “In the end I learned that the water was in me. It was a ghost that could not be exorcised. But a guest, even uninvited, must be attended to. You make up a bed for them. You pour from your best bottle of wine. If you can learn to love that wich despises you, you can dance on the shore and play in the waves again, like you did when you were young. Before the ocean is friend or foe, it simply is. And so are you.”

— Ava Reid

112. “It’s very hard to believe something when it feels like the whole world is trying to convince you otherwise.”

— Ava Reid

113. “That was why something might become a ghost- its life had meant so little, no one had even mourned it.”

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114. “My eldest sister was right; I would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. But no one ever told me I was allowed to scream.”

— Ava Reid

115. “I wanted you, too. For so long. It was terrible. Sometimes I could barely eat- sorry, I know that sounds like the strangest thing. But for days I didn’t feel hungry at all. I was... occupied. You took away all the other wanting from me.”

— Ava Reid

116. “Can one still cherish a love that ends in grief?”

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117. “You’re so pretty. You really are. You’re the most gorgeous girl I’ve ever seen. Do you know that?” If she said yes, I do, she was a conceited harpy. If she shook her head and rebuffed the compliment, she was falsely modest, playing coy. It was fae-like trickery. There was no answer that wouldn’t damn her.”

— Ava Reid

118. “No. The word rose in her mind like a steep and powerful wave, one that darkened the whole shoreline. But it crashed against an invisible seawall, a barrier as stubborn and unrelenting as the face of a cliff.”

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119. “Everything ancient must decay, a wise man once said thus to me. But a sailor was I – and on my head no fleck of gray – so with all the boldness of my youth, I said: The only enemy is the sea.”

— Ava Reid

120. “I was saving myself. What you think of as recklessness, I think of as survival. Sometimes it’s not pretty.”

— Ava Reid

121. “Water finds its way through the smallest spaces and the narrowest cracks. Where the bone meets sinew, where the skin is split. It is treacherous and loving. You can die as easily of thirst as you can of drowning.”

— Ava Reid

122. “Fear could make a believer of anybody.”

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123. “Men just say whatever they want and everyone believes them.”

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124. “She was afraid of our lives becoming our own. She was afraid of our threads snapping, of us becoming just girls, and not wolf-girls.”

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125. “This is a man’s first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”

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126. “It is this gesture of tenderness that nearly undoes her. How easy these metamorphoses are: men crawling backward to their boyhoods, cold masks slipping to reveal stricken faces beneath.”

— Ava Reid

127. “She had been terrifed of anything that might hold her where she was, that might chain her where she couldn’t flee. She had fashioned herself into an escape artist, a magician whose only trick was vanishing. Permanence was dangerous. It had always felt like a trap.”

— Ava Reid

128. “There’s very little worse than when our heroes fail us, is there?”

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129. “There was a small prickle of grief when she thought about it, how perhaps she and Preston would never see eye to eye. But he believed her fear, her grief, her desire. That had to be enough.”

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130. “Stories are supposed to live longer than people.”

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131. “And there is nothing more dangerous than a creature who pretends to be one thing and is in truth another.”

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132. “Her body remembered what it felt like to be afraid so well that it would take time, a long time, to teach it something new.”

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133. “So runs this tale, like a stream into the sea, not to fade, but to change and to be free.”

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134. “It was a beautiful house, but not a clever one. It was a house with no imagination.”

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135. “In that moment, Roscille slips out of herself and, like a specter, Lady Macbeth slips in.”

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136. “Sometimes I think that’s what love is, really – giving each other matching scars.”

— Ava Reid