Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I can’t,” I bite out, looking anywhere but his face. He responds quickly, with force. “Neither can I.” “But I also can’t – ” Stay away. Keep doing this. Denying ourselves in the face of always-looming death. Tiberias hisses out a breath. “Neither can I.”

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452. “I can’t be alone with myself, not now, not yet. So I sit and listen, and I watch. And through it all, I feel his eyes.”

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453. “How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own.”

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454. “There’s a reason my only friends are written words.”

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

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456. “We destroy. It’s the constant of our kind.”

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457. “We had a son too, Tibe. No matter how you felt about me, you were supposed to love him.”

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458. “They are dead. We are dead. It is over.”

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459. “Her silence was her best quality. Perhaps her only good one.”

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460. “Hammer and nail, the Companions are now seven, wind and gail, bound for hell or bound for heaven.”

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461. “In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?”

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462. “This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white.”

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463. “I guess I did it wrong, as I do everything wrong. This time, I feel the shadow before I see it. And it feels angry.”

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464. “Impossible,′ the shadow says to me.”

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465. “The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. “I’ll see what I can come up with,” he finally forces out.”

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466. “Not to mention the fact that your uncle seems determined to drink away the coffers of House Jacos.” Another swig of gin. Coriane almost laughed at the irony. “How selfish.”

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

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468. “Where’s Shade?” Mom.”

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469. “Diamond walls. “That.”

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

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471. “But Maven shut me out of a place that was rightfully mine. He didn’t know to look for Elane. My lovely, invisible shadow. Her reports came later, under the cover of the night. They were very thorough. I feel them still, whispered against my skin with only the moon to listen. Elane Haven is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in any capacity, but she looks best in moonlight.”

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472. “And I am revealed for exactly what I am – a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.”

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473. “Meanwhile, Samson strides from the arena like a titan.”

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474. “Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.”

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475. “We slip in like mice and find ourselves in a room crawling with hungry cats.”

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476. “At the back of the room, the exiled prince gets to his feet. He holds my gaze, as if his eyes alone could set me on fire. A waste. There is nothing in me left to burn.”

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477. “Security searches.”

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478. “He’s a burner, he controls heat and fire, I remember. He’s a prince, and a dangerous one at that.”

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479. “Evangeline, Cal, and me, all headed to Montfort. What a terrific joke.”

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480. “You.” His fingers staying on mine, hot but steady in temperature. He’s holding himself back as much as he can. “I am in love with you, and I want you more than anything else in the world.”

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481. “I’m starting to think you like prisons,” he says, idling knocking his knuckles against the wall. “And that you have the worst taste in men.”

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482. “I’d feel sorry for her, but my family’s infinitely worse.”

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483. “The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth.”

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

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

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486. “The war never leaves.”

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487. “But we all still have the ability to choose, in the end.”

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

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490. “I’m an accident. I’m a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.”

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

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492. “Our paths may be horrible, but they’re the paths we made for ourselves.”

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

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

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495. “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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496. “Shade’s death still weighs on me like a terrible stone.”

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497. “Murder helps him sleep.”

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498. “The hollow, headless crown lay on the throne, waiting for its next victim.”

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499. “I swear, I’m going to cut the tongues from the mouths of everyone here. Is no secret sacred?”

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

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