Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “We might be noble, but this man could buy us all if he wanted.”

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452. “There’s a trigger, and you need to find yours.”

— Victoria Aveyard

453. “One already betrayed me, and the other might leave at any moment. But I do not fear a broken heart. I do not fear pain.”

— Victoria Aveyard

454. “Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not.”

— Victoria Aveyard

455. “He only asks what he already knows the answer to.”

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456. “He pulls water from the fountains, from every glass, raining it down again and again. The nymph is drowning him. The.”

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457. “I’m not a fool, little lightning girl. If you’re going play in my head, I’m going to play in yours. It’s what we’re good at. – Maven Calore, King’s Cage.”

— Victoria Aveyard

458. “And three for the miscarriages she suffered over the years. Each one came at night, on the heels of a violent nightmare.”

— Victoria Aveyard

459. “Never breaking eye contact, Maven slips the flamemaker bracelet from his wrist. It’s slow, deliberate, methodic. I hear it hit the floor and roll, silver metal ringing against the marble. The other quickly follows. Still watching, he leans back in the bath and tips his head. Exposing his neck. At my side, my hands twitch. It would be so easy.”

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460. “Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.”

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461. “He’s strong, he’s talented, he’s powerful – and I’m his shadow. The shadow of the flame.”

— Victoria Aveyard

462. “Shade appears behind her, solidifying out of thin air, and wraps her up in an expert military hold.”

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463. “My darkness will save them.”

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464. “This is common, since he has only one real lung.”

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465. “Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.”

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466. “You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can’t believe this.”

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467. “You could have been my red queen.”

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468. “Lightning has no mercy.”

— Victoria Aveyard

469. “Men are not meant to be at war for long.”

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470. “To the New England Patriots. Last year I thanked you and you won the Super Bowl. Let’s keep that tradition going. Free Brady.”

— Victoria Aveyard

471. “Maybe he ran afoul of his own toothbrush when he was a growing boy. Next.”

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472. “Sorasa spat heartily, her aim true.”

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473. “Tramy finally lets me go, putting me back down next to Cal, who’s doing a wonderful job looking awkward and out of place.”

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474. “We’ve never seen so much blood here before. Blue lights flash to life, bathing.”

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475. “Mare, don’t be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy.”

— Victoria Aveyard

476. “He must be blessed, by someone or something. My only consolation is knowing I’m right about him, and always will be.”

— Victoria Aveyard

477. “I can’t deny how much I want to go back for him.”

— Victoria Aveyard

478. “Diamond walls. “That.”

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479. “The screenwriting program itself is the reason I got the chance to be a working writer, and I can’t thank them enough.”

— Victoria Aveyard

480. “My mind flashes back to Grand Garden, to the beautiful, cruel creatures calling themselves human.”

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481. “I ache for my ability the way I ache for Mare, for Thomas, for who I was supposed to be.”

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482. “When Kilorn steps toward me, his face set and determined, his bruises and scars and bandages seem to fade. I think I see the dawn in his eyes.”

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483. “Mare Molly Barrow, born November seventeenth, 302 of the New Era, to Daniel and Ruth Barrow,” Tiberias recites from memory, laying my life bare.”

— Victoria Aveyard

484. “If Valtik is going to rhyme, you can’t start talking in riddles, Sorasa,” she said, exasperated. “I refuse to save the realm under these conditions.”

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485. “No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.”

— Victoria Aveyard

486. “They’re the sons and daughters of important people, and to them, the war is just another place to visit.”

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487. “You’ll find I’m remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.”

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488. “I can only imagine how that went. Oh, hello. Your daughter is a Silver now, and she’s going to marry a prince. You’ll never see her again, but we’ll send you some money to help out. Even trade, don’t you think?”

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489. “They’re the only ones rich enough to use private transportation.”

— Victoria Aveyard

490. “Take us away. Bring us downriver. Carry me west or south or north, in any direction but the one I have come from.”

— Victoria Aveyard

491. “We are your betters.”

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492. “I miss you. Until we meet again.”

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493. “I betrayed him, he betrayed me but you betrayed both of us in a thousand different ways.”

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494. “The war never leaves.”

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495. “If you know someone’s fear, you know them.”

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496. “I feel as if I could touch the sky. Run my jeweled claws across the clouds and make the sky bleed red starlight.”

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497. “This is the true division between Silvers and Reds: the color of our blood.”

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498. “I wold never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”

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499. “When I was Mare Barrow of the Stilts, I thought the same way. I wondered what would happen if I survived conscription, and saw what that future held. A friendly marriage to the fish boy with green eyes, children we could love, a poor stilt home. It seemed like a dream back then, an impossibility. And it still is. It always will be. I do not love Kilorn, not the way he wants me to. I never will.”

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500. “Ignorance is a burden I do not intend to carry.”

— Victoria Aveyard