Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When are you going to realize that every word out of my mouth was a lie?” “We.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

153. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

154. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

155. “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?”

— Victoria Aveyard

156. “Don’t lie to a liar.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

158. “Men are so unsuited to power.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

160. “What if you’re wrong? What if Norta is the beginning? The change the others need? You don’t know where freedom leads.”

— Victoria Aveyard

161. “Revolution needs a spark,” I murmur, repeating what Julian would say in our lessons. “And even sparks burn.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

163. “I will not be a red queen.”

— Victoria Aveyard

164. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

166. “There’s nothing wrong with being different.”

— Victoria Aveyard

167. “I am the king and you could’ve been my Red Queen.”

— Victoria Aveyard

168. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

169. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

170. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

172. “I let her hold me for a long while. I do my best not to cry. My best is not enough.”

— Victoria Aveyard

173. “I can feel him slipping down not just the hall but a dark and twisted path. It makes me afraid for the boy who taught me how to dance.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

177. “Like the others, you are Red and Silver, and stronger than both. I think you are the future. I think you are the new dawn.”

— Victoria Aveyard

178. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”

— Victoria Aveyard

179. “Red Queen. The lightning girl. She lives. Rise, Red as dawn. Rise. Rise. Rise.”

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180. “I want so badly to stop. I want to stand still without killing myself or someone else. But that is not possible. I must keep going, I must hurt myself to save myself, hurt others to save others. Hurt Kilorn, hurt Cal, hurt Shade and Farley and Nix and everyone stupid enough to follow me. I’m making them runners too.”

— Victoria Aveyard

181. “My years in the shadows have taught me many things. Who carries the most money, who won’t notice you, and what liars look like.”

— Victoria Aveyard

182. “His opinion isn’t worth the rust on my fathers wheelchair.”

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183. “Caz, Brecker, with us!”

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184. “And somehow everyone calls me a monster.”

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185. “He narrows his eyes, and I can see the cogs turning in his mind. Then he snaps entirely. “I told you, I told you not to get in over your head!” He slams a fist down on the table, looking angrier than I’ve ever seen him before. “And now,” he breathes, staring at me with so much sorrow it makes my heart hurt, “now I must watch you drown?”

— Victoria Aveyard

186. “She says she doesn’t care, but her eyes tell a different story.”

— Victoria Aveyard

187. “I see you as you could become, no longer the lightning, but the storm. The storm that will swallow the world entire.”

— Victoria Aveyard

188. “Moonlight falls on the floor, bright enough for us to see by. In the silvery light, the red blush in my skin is barely visible – I look the same as a Silver.”

— Victoria Aveyard

189. “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?”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

191. “While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

193. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

194. “If you die, I’ll kill you.” He smiles sadly. “Likewise.”

— Victoria Aveyard

195. “He’s already given up. I will not.”

— Victoria Aveyard

196. “Strength and power are the words Cal has been raised to know. Not goodness. Not kindness. Not empathy or bravery or equality or anything else that a ruler should strive for.”

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197. “Kilorn shoulders his way to my side, separating us before I can tell Cal my strength and my ability are all I’m sure of now. The electricity in my veins might be the only thing I trust in this world. I.”

— Victoria Aveyard

198. “Revolution needs a spark. And even sparks burn.”

— Victoria Aveyard

199. “I am only human, and humans are not supposed to deal with days like today.”

— Victoria Aveyard

200. “They don’t know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It’s only their pride that can be truly hurt.”

— Victoria Aveyard