Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

452. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

454. “Where’s Shade?” Mom.”

— Victoria Aveyard

455. “Diamond walls. “That.”

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456. “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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457. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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

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

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462. “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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463. “Security searches.”

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

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466. “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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467. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

468. “This is the world I’m trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.”

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

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

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471. “I should know better than to lie. But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul.”

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472. “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

473. “My darkness will save them.”

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

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475. “Why? Because he’s one of them.”

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

— Victoria Aveyard

477. “They cut her tongue out for something she said. What will they possibly do to me? “You.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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480. “Lightning has no mercy.”

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

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482. “If she can keep pushing forward, still believing in what we’re doing, so can I.”

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483. “Love has a way of cutting us apart like nothing else.”

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

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

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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

495. “He told me once that he didn’t fear conscription as much as everyone else because the dozen bloodthirsty girls he was leaving behind were far more dangerous.”

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496. “Yes, long live the king!” she says, glaring at us. “Tiberias the Seventh! Long live the king!” Cal. Maven.”

— Victoria Aveyard

497. “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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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. “If the Reds see her, a Silver by blood but Red by nature, raised up with us, they can be placated. It’s like an old fairy tale, a commoner becoming the princess. She’s their champion. They can look to her instead of terrorists.” And then, softer, but more important than anything else: “She’s a distraction.”

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500. “One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.”

— Victoria Aveyard