Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth.”

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

— Victoria Aveyard

153. “Don’t lie to a liar.”

— Victoria Aveyard

154. “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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155. “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

156. “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.”

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157. “Cal’s blood might be silver, but his heart is black as burned skin.”

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158. “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

159. “Mare Barrow, you have been summoned to Summerton.” Gisa’s.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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162. “He smiles as he speaks, showing sharp little teeth. Rat’s teeth.”

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163. “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

164. “Time is passing. My life is moving on, no matter how much I want it to stay the same.”

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165. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

166. “Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. – HRC.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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168. “He thinks speeches are a waste of time. Cal likes action, not words.” That makes two of us, but I don’t want to admit I have anything in common with Maven’s older brother. Maybe once, I thought so, but not now. Not ever again.”

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169. “I would prefer death to this cage, to the twisted obsession of a mad boy king.”

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170. “What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They’re gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we’re from. Home is safe with them. I hope.”

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171. “The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.”

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172. “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

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.”

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174. “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. Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.”

— Victoria Aveyard

175. “I flinch. The rag she gives me is clean, but it still smells like blood.”

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176. “I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I’m not a rat anymore. I’m the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.”

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177. “The words were only words. He could never part with her. So it was easy to push her into his path – and push him off course. The equivalent of waving a red flag in front of a bull. She was his hurricane, and every nudge pulled him deeper into the eye of the storm.”

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178. “You better hide that heart of yours. It won’t lead you anywhere you want to go.”

— Victoria Aveyard

179. “Don’t be unkind.” I’m used to ordering him around, but this sounds like a request.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut.”

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

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183. “Romance. We flinch at the word. There is no such thing between us anymore. Not after what we did to each other, and what was done to us. No matter how much we might want there to be.”

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184. “I’ve come this come all this way and suddenly I’m back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.”

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

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186. “We are nothing more than distractions for each other, and distractions get you killed. But my hands close over his, our fingers lacing, until our bones are woven together. The fire is dying, flames reduced to embers. But Cal is still here. He will never leave me.”

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187. “Swooning words. A romantic declaration. I can barely stop my eyes from rolling. “Save.”

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188. “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.”

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

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190. “You are the only person I care about, the only person who reminds me I am alive. Not empty. And not alone.” Alive. Not empty. Not alone.”

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191. “Don’t lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.”

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192. “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?”

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

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194. “With great effort, I push my fear away. Fear will get me killed.”

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195. “Time moves slowly when you’re waiting for something good, so naturally the days fly by as the dreaded ball approaches.”

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196. “I’m starting to think you like prisons,” “And that you have the worst taste in men.”

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197. “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.”

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198. “I’ve been broken too many times to break again.”

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199. “It’s not something you can control, Mare,” he replies, still standing so far away. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”

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200. “I grew up wondering if I’d have food for supper; now I’m standing in a palace about to be eaten alive. Red.”

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