Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You believe you are the masters of the world, but your reign as kings and gods is at an end. Until you recognize us as human, as equal, the fight will be at your door. Not on a battlefield but in your cities. In your streets. In your homes. You don’t see us, and so we are everywhere.” Her voice hums with authority and poise. “And we will rise up, Red as the dawn.”

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102. “I’m afraid of failing. I’m afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I’m afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.” He turns hot under my touch, driven by an inner resolve. “That scares me more than dying.”

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103. “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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104. “Every house has a door, but it also has windows, a hole in the roof, or a broken lock. There is always a way in.”

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105. “Sometimes his silence is better than anyone else’s words.”

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106. “If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos.”

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107. “I woke up this morning as one person, and now I’m supposed to be someone else entirely.”

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108. “His blood is silver and his heart is Silver. And he will never value another above his own.”

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109. “I’ll make the other scream for you, Mare, every last one. Not just your parents. Not just your siblings. But every single one like you. I’m going to find them, and they will die with you in their thoughts, knowing this is the fate you have brought them. I am the king and you could’ve been my Red Queen. Now you are nothing.”

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110. “The only thing that serves to distinguish us, outwardly at least, is that Silvers stand tall. Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.”

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111. “Love is not a word we use. We feel it, we mean it, but we don’t say it. It feels so final, a declaration from which there is no easy return. I’m a thief. I know my exits. And I was a prisoner. I hate locked doors. But his eyes are so close, so eager. And it’s what I feel. Even though the words terrify me, they are the truth. Didn’t I say I would start telling the truth?”

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112. “It takes all my strength not to snap at these cowards who will never see the front lines or send their children to.”

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113. “Attend to your own fate, Mare Barrow.” “And that is?” “To rise. And rise alone.”

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114. “I’ve done this a thousand times before, watching the crowd like a wolf does a flock of sheep. Looking for the weak, the slow, the foolish. Only now, I am very much the prey.”

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115. “I’m not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.”

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

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117. “I want to look back, but I have to walk away, to do what must be done, and forget what must be forgotten.”

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118. “Men are so unsuited to power.”

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119. “Once, I was afraid of these walls, frightened by such beauty. But I see the cracks now.”

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120. “You know people, you understand them, you see through them.”

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121. “I will not be a red queen.”

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122. “But we are often made weak by what also makes us strong.”

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123. “We are all a god’s chosen, and a god’s cursed.”

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124. “There is nothing so terrible as a story untold.”

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125. “Monsters are more dangerous when they’re afraid.”

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126. “A terrorist group calling themselves the Scarlet Guard released this video moments ago.” “The.”

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127. “But I need him. And I can’t find the strength to let him go. Though.”

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128. “Long ago he called us ants, Red ants burning in the light of a Silver sun. Destroyed by the greatness of others, losing the battle for our right to exist because we are not special. We did not evolve like them, with powers and strengths beyond our limited imaginations. We stayed the same, stagnant in our own bodies. The world changed around us and we stayed the same.”

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129. “Even through the haze of summer you can see the cleared pockets of land that were once forest, now logged into oblivion. They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder.”

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130. “And his eyes are worst of all. Her eyes, Elara’s eyes. Once I thought them cold, made of living ice. Now I know better. The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception.”

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131. “Change can be quick, or it can be slow. But the movement should always be forward.”

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132. “The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”

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133. “Oppressing you, trapping you in an endless cycle of poverty and death, just because we think you are different from us? That is not right. And as any student of history can tell you, it will end poorly.”

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134. “He told me once it was cruel to give hope where none should be.”

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135. “If you die, I’ll kill you.”

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136. “We destroy, but we also rebuild.”

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137. “It’s a magic trick, and the queen is a skilled magician. Her.”

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138. “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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139. “I’m a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can’t afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.”

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140. “Even rats want to get out of the gutter, Miss Barrow.”

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

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142. “Mare of the Stilts died the day she fell onto a lightning shield. Mareena, the lost Silver princess, died in the Bowl of Bones. And I don’t know what new person opened her eyes on the Undertrain. I only know what she has been and what she has lost, and the weight of it is almost crushing.”

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143. “Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.”

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144. “Like any wife, she hates her husband for challenging her, and like any queen, she hates the power the king holds over her. A bad combination.”

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145. “You and your brother have everything, Prince Maven,’ I whisper in a voice so fervent it might be a prayer. ‘You live in a palace, you have strength, you have power. 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.”

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146. “You aren’t alone.” The hope in his eyes cuts deeply. “You have your crown.”

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147. “Some say those are just stories, but I don’t believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”

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148. “They’ve pulled me inside out, swapping Mare for Mareena, a thief for a crown, rags for silk, Red for Silver. This morning I was a servant, tonight I’m a princess. How much more will change? What else will I lose?”

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149. “I see the crown dripping blood. A storm without thunder. Shadow twisting on a bed of flames. I see lakes flooding their shores, swallowing men whole. I see a man with one red eye, his coat blue, his gun smoking-.”

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150. “His face turns to stone again, his eyes narrowed and icy, doing all they can to ignore what his heart wants to feel.”

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