Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Red Queen. The lightning girl. She lives. Rise, Red as dawn. Rise. Rise. Rise.”

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

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153. “But we all still have the ability to choose, in the end.”

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154. “But I can’t shake the feeling that, while they stand with me, there’s no one beside me. Even with an army at my back, I am still alone.”

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

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

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

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159. “Cal is built from his father’s dreams, and Maven from his mother’s nightmares.”

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160. “I will not be a red queen.”

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161. “Like any wife, she hates her husband for challenging her.”

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “Change can be quick, or it can be slow. But the movement should always be forward.”

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165. “In the flickering candlelight, our shadows look like monsters on the walls. When.”

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

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167. “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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168. “You are now Red in the head, Silver in the heart.”

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

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170. “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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171. “Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth.”

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172. “I am the shadow of the flame.”

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

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

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175. “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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176. “Make no mistake, my girl,” he finally breathes. “You are playing the game as someone’s pawn.”

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

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “I have been running for so long. Since before all this even started. Even back in the Stilts, I was a runner. Avoiding my family, my fate, anything I didn’t want to feel. And I am still racing now. From those who would kill me – and those who would love.”

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

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182. “I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don’t want to taste him ever again.”

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183. “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.”

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

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

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

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “Don’t lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.”

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

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192. “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.”

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193. “It frightens me about being alone with Cal, at least in daylight. But when night falls, there’s no one I’d rather see.”

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

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

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196. “I do not fear pain.”

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197. “Men are so unsuited to power.”

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

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

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200. “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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