Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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

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

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “And we will rise up, Red as the dawn.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.”

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

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

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116. “Words can lie. See beyond them.”

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117. “Wish him a happy birthday for me. And assure him it will be his last. But yours is coming, isn’t it? I don’t doubt we’ll spend it together. Until we meet again, Maven.”

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118. “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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119. “In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. 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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120. “To look powerful is to be powerful.”

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

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122. “Not that I’ll be in school much longer. My eighteenth birthday is coming, and with it, conscription. I’m not apprenticed, I don’t have a job, so I’m going to be sent to the war like all the other idle ones. It’s no wonder there’s no work left, what with every man, woman, and child trying to stay out of the army.”

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

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

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

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “If. It’s the worst word in the world.”

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

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “Once, I was afraid of these walls, frightened by such beauty. But I see the cracks now.”

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133. “When are you going to realize that every word out of my mouth was a lie?” “We.”

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134. “I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me? I don’t know. And I don’t know how to make it stop.”

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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “If you die, I’ll kill you.” He smiles sadly. “Likewise.”

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139. “I’m standing on the balcony a full ten seconds before I realize it’s raining, washing me clean of my boiling anger.”

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140. “Her eyes are on mine as he brings the butt of his gun down, shattering the bones in her sewing hand.”

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141. “You’re a special kind of stupid.”

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

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143. “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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144. “I suppose I should get used to being alone too. Not in the world, but in here. In my heart. Part.”

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145. “At least we can be alone together.”

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

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148. “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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149. “Well, if you don’t belong to a place, perhaps we belong to each other? We who belong nowhere?” Sorasa offered. Her copper eyes glimmered, dancing with the light off the river.”

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150. “I’ve done things, terrible things, and I don’t deserve forgiveness for them. But I see it in Julian’s eyes all the same. And it fills me with such hope. I will not become a monster, no matter what I must do in the days ahead. I will not lose who I am, even if it kills me.”

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