Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I can’t let the mistakes I’ve made bury me.”

— Victoria Aveyard

52. “I try to dull the pain with even duller books.”

— Victoria Aveyard

53. “He gave me exactly what I wanted, and it made me blind.”

— Victoria Aveyard

54. “Don’t lie to a liar.”

— Victoria Aveyard

55. “I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don’t go much further than this moment, and I fear there’s a good reason for it.”

— Victoria Aveyard

56. “My skin burs under Maven’s gaze, with the memory of one stolen kiss. It was him who saved me from Evangeline. Cal who saved me from escaping and bringing more pain upon myself. Cal who saved me from conscription. I’ve been too busy trying to save others to notice how much Cal saves me. How much he loves me.”

— Victoria Aveyard

57. “I want to kill her, I want to be her.”

— Victoria Aveyard

58. “Anyone can betray anyone. – Julian Jacos.”

— Victoria Aveyard

59. “This is the true division between Silvers and Reds: the color of our blood. This simple difference somehow makes them stronger, smarter, better than us.”

— Victoria Aveyard

60. “The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception.”

— Victoria Aveyard

61. “I don’t like getting involved with other people’s business. I don’t have time for it. And yet here I am, listening to myself say four dooming words. “Leave everything to me.”

— Victoria Aveyard

62. “There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.”

— Victoria Aveyard

63. “If you die, I’ll kill you.”

— Victoria Aveyard

64. “Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal’s flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war.”

— Victoria Aveyard

65. “The face of our glorious revolution. The drop of water to break the dam.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

67. “What I need and what I want are two very different things.”

— Victoria Aveyard

68. “I know my brother. It comes down to it, to saving your life or saving his crown, we both know what he will choose.”

— Victoria Aveyard

69. “I hate the waves. They offend me. -Maven Calore.”

— Victoria Aveyard

70. “Maven Calore is not his own self. He told me as much. He is a construct, a creation of his mother’s additions and subtractions. A mechanical, a machine, soulless and lost. What a horror, to know that someone like this holds our fates in the palm of his quivering hand.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

73. “You are a realm breaker, Taristan. You would crack this world apart and build an empire from its ruins.”

— Victoria Aveyard

74. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

76. “Cal and Maven are deadly creatures, soldiers. But their battle isn’t just on the lines. It’s here, in a palace, on the broadcasts, in the heart of every person they rule. They will rule, not just by right of a crown, but by might. Strength and power. It’s all the Silvers respect, and it’s all it takes to keep the rest of us slaves.”

— Victoria Aveyard

77. “As much as I want to pull away, I just can’t do it. Cal is a cliff, and I throw myself over the edge, not bothering to think of what it could do to us both. One day he’ll realise that I am his enemy, and all this will be a far-gone memory. But not yet.”

— Victoria Aveyard

78. “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

79. “This world is a storm I helped create. We all did, in ways big and small. With steps we could not fathom, paths we never thought to walk.”

— Victoria Aveyard

80. “From now until the end of your days, you must lie. Your life depends on it, little lightning girl.”

— Victoria Aveyard

81. “But like my brother, I too have a crutch. Mine is not metal. It is flesh and fire and bronze eyes. If only I could cast him away. If only I was strong enough to let the prince go and do what he would with his vengeance. To die or live as he saw fit. But I need him. And I can’t find the strength to let him go.”

— Victoria Aveyard

82. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

83. “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

84. “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

85. “But he stays right there, my last bit of warmth in a world turning to dust. I weep for them all.”

— Victoria Aveyard

86. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

87. “A hundred years from now a newblood king will sit the throne you built him on the skulls of children.”

— Victoria Aveyard

88. “Two Sentinels stand over me, their eyes dark behind their masks. Both are twice my size and heartless, trying to drag me back into my prison. “My.”

— Victoria Aveyard

89. “Few Silvers inherit abilities from their mothers, and no one has ever had more than one ability. So.”

— Victoria Aveyard

90. “O vermelho escorre sobre o prateado, e ambos se misturam numa cor mais escura.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

92. “You did this to yourself, you stupid little girl.”

— Victoria Aveyard

93. “If only we had more time. One more week, or even one more day.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

96. “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

97. “If. I despise that stupid word.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

99. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard