Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

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

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54. “If. I despise that stupid word.”

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55. “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.”

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

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57. “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.”

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

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60. “Words can lie. See beyond them.”

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61. “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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62. “No, I don’t think so.”

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63. “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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64. “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.”

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65. “Information is more dangerous than any weapon we possess.”

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

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

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

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

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70. “It is not death I fear, not anymore. I’ve faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.”

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71. “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.”

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

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

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

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75. “My mistakes cannot be undone, forgotten, or ignored. But I can make amends. I can do something now.”

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

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77. “Cal is built from his father’s dreams, and Maven from his mother’s nightmares.”

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

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

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80. “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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81. “If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”

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82. “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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83. “You don’t see us, and so we are everywhere. And we will rise up, Red as the dawn.”

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

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

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86. “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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87. “I can’t believe I didn’t see him for what he was from the beginning: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And now I’m the sheep pretending to be a wolf.”

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

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

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90. “In the flickering candlelight, our shadows look like monsters on the walls. When.”

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

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

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93. “You are now Red in the head, Silver in the heart.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “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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96. “I hate First Friday. It makes the village crowded, and now, in the heat of high summer, that’s the last thing anyone wants.”

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

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98. “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.”

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99. “If. It’s the worst word in the world.”

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100. “He is tired. He is broken. And he doesn’t want to fight anymore. Part of me doesn’t either. Part of me wishes I could submit to chains, to captivity and silence. But I have lived that life already, in the mud, in the shadows, in a cell, in a silk dress. I will never submit again.”

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