Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”

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152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “Even rats want to get out of the gutter, Miss Barrow.”

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

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158. “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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159. “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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160. “I woke up this morning as one person, and now I’m supposed to be someone else entirely.”

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

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

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “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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167. “Don’t lie to a liar.”

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

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169. “Men are so unsuited to power.”

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

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

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

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

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175. “I will not be a red queen.”

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

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

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

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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183. “I let her hold me for a long while. I do my best not to cry. My best is not enough.”

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184. “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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185. “I am the shadow of the flame.”

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186. “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.”

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

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “How does it feel to be used Mare Borrow?”

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

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193. “You opened your eyes, Mare. That’s all that matters.”

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

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196. “My skin burs under Maven’s gaze, with the memory of one stolen kiss. It was him who saved me from Evangeline. Cal who saved me from escaping and bringing more pain upon myself. Cal who saved me from conscription. I’ve been too busy trying to save others to notice how much Cal saves me. How much he loves me.”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “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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200. “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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