Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “She wasn’t enough for me either. Enough to make me change, to pull me back from what I’ve willingly become. I wonder if Thomas would have been enough.”

— Victoria Aveyard

52. “I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn.”

— Victoria Aveyard

53. “I have no illusions where Maven is concerned. I know his twisted heart, and that it feels something for me. Something he wants to get rid of, but can never part with.”

— Victoria Aveyard

54. “It explodes too close, the heat pulsing through my hasty lightning shield. Dimly, I wonder if I’ll die without eyebrows.”

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55. “No, I don’t think so.”

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56. “If. I despise that stupid word.”

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57. “Boys do stupid things to feel like men, no matter how old they are.”

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58. “The truth doesn’t matter. It only matters what the people believe.”

— Victoria Aveyard

59. “You’ve been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don’t know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.”

— Victoria Aveyard

60. “From that day on, his bedchamber becomes ours.”

— Victoria Aveyard

61. “My heart breaks for him; my heart hardens against him.”

— Victoria Aveyard

62. “You wouldn’t know hardship if it kicked you in the teeth, and believe me, it does that a lot. So excuse me if I don’t feel sorry for either of you.”

— Victoria Aveyard

63. “They beg to a Silver king, and spit upon Red queens.”

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64. “You killed the she-wolf. It should be nothing at all to kill the pup.”

— Victoria Aveyard

65. “You should be thanking me. Don’t -” He puts his hands up in defense as I spit at him. “You really need to figure out another way to express your anger,” he grumbles, wiping at his uniform.”

— Victoria Aveyard

66. “Right now he looks like he needs a shower and a shave, not to mention a few well-aimed slaps to wake him out of his stupor.”

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67. “But I wake up far too often from uneasy sleep, her words ringing in my ears, for her voice to simply be a product of my own mind. She’s here with me still, whether I want her to be or not. I call it a comfort, even when she is anything but.”

— Victoria Aveyard

68. “Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”

— Victoria Aveyard

69. “I don’t belong anywhere,” Corayne said, her voice failing. To her surprise, Sorasa cracked a smile. “There are plenty of people like that,” she said. “And nowhere is still a somewhere.”

— Victoria Aveyard

70. “I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.”

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71. “Now I am king and you could have been my Red Queen. Now, you are nothing.”

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72. “As beautiful as this world is, it’s just as dangerous. People who are not useful, people who make mistakes, they can be removed. You can be removed.”

— Victoria Aveyard

73. “I am finally learning my lesson. Anyone can betray anyone.”

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74. “But I’m not a princess. I’m not the girl who gets saved.”

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75. “I love you is a promise we both made, and we both broke. It should mean I choose you above all else. I want you more. I need you always. I cannot live without you. I will do anything to keep our lives from parting. But he wouldn’t. And I won’t. I am less than his crown, and he is less than my cause.”

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76. “I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.”

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77. “History favors the underfoot and the oppressed, Your Majest,” he says. “The years are long, but eventually, always, fortunes shift. The people rise. Such is the way of things. Either let change come willingly, help it along, or face the wrath of such force. It might not be you, or even your children. But the day will come when Reds storm the gates of your castles, break your crowns, and slit the throats of your descendants as they beg for the mercy you will not show now.”

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78. “The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”

— Victoria Aveyard

79. “No one notices, no one even cares, when I fade away again. I’m a shadow, and no one remembers shadows.”

— Victoria Aveyard

80. “Her golden hair catches the moonlight. For a second, she seems to wear a sparkling crown.”

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81. “Even without her lightning, Mare Barrow still manages to strike me through.”

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82. “Words can lie. See beyond them.”

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83. “I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze. Winding.”

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84. “It takes all my strength not to snap at these cowards who will never see the front lines or send their children to fight. Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”

— Victoria Aveyard

85. “You waved a red flag in front of a bull, but didn’t do much more than poke at him.”

— Victoria Aveyard

86. “King Maven of House Calore meets my gaze the moment he knows I’m here... The instant hangs, suspended on a thread of time. A canyon of distractions yawns between us, filled with so much noise and graceful chaos, but the room might as well be empty.”

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87. “With my newly pale skin and darkened eyes and lips, I look cold, cruel, a living razor. I look Silver. I look beautiful. And I hate it.”

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88. “No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”

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89. “Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It’s leverage. But I would 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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90. “He can’t let me die. He won’t I am the little lightning girl, and I am going to make the world change.”

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91. “Strange, my enemies know me best, and my family doesn’t know me at all.”

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92. “Thief,” he says, a strange surprise in his voice. I blink at him, fighting the urge to laugh. I don’t even have the strength to protest. “Obviously.”

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93. “Those who know what it’s like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light.”

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94. “I didn’t ask if you could read it,′ he replies, still pleasant. ‘Besides, words can lie. See beyond them.”

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95. “And we will rise up, Red as the dawn.”

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96. “To look powerful is to be powerful.”

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97. “I feel something like hands around my throat, threatening to squeeze the life from me. Each word tightens the grip, as if ink alone can strangle me. For a second, I fear I might not breathe again.”

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98. “I see the crown dripping blood. A storm without thunder. Shadow twisting on a bed of flames.”

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99. “Anyone, anything, can betray anyone. Even your own heart.”

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100. “In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don’t know if I’ll ever smile again.”

— Victoria Aveyard