Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “He smiles as he speaks, showing sharp little teeth. Rat’s teeth.”

— Victoria Aveyard

202. “Caz, Brecker, with us!”

— Victoria Aveyard

203. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

204. “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

205. “The Sentinels lead the way through the maze of passages in the upper levels of the palace. Like the Spiral Garden, the architecture is all curves of stone, glass, and metal, slowly turning downward. Diamondglass is around every corner, showing breathtaking views of the marketplace, the river valley, and the woods beyond. From this height, I can see hills I didn’t know existed rising in the distance, silhouetted against the setting sun.”

— Victoria Aveyard

206. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

208. “I am not a fool little lightning girl. if your going to play with my head, I’m going to play with yours.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

212. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

214. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

215. “This was Maven’s doing. This was the shadow controlling the flame.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

218. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

220. “Men are so unsuited to power.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

226. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

229. “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

230. “Su guerra plateada se paga con sangre roja.”

— Victoria Aveyard

231. “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

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

— Victoria Aveyard

233. “How does it feel to be used Mare Borrow?”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

235. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

236. “How many times does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?”

— Victoria Aveyard

237. “I wish there were some middle ground.” A place where our names and our blood and our pasts don’t matter. A place without weight. A place that has never been and will never exist. “Good night, Tiberias.” Hissing, he clenches a fist. “I really need you to stop calling me that.” And I really need you. I turn and walk toward my room, my footsteps echoing and alone.”

— Victoria Aveyard

238. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

239. “I can only watch as the officer lays my sister next to me. Her eyes are on mine as he brings the butt of his gun down, shattering the bones in her sewing hand.”

— Victoria Aveyard

240. “I do not scowl,” Dom said, scowling.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

242. “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

243. “Dad chuckles darkly. “She can do as she pleases. There’s no let to it.”

— Victoria Aveyard

244. “The crushing weight of silence hangs heavy as always. For a moment it’s too difficult to breathe, and I wonder if this is how I die. Drowned in this bed of silk, burned by a king’s obsession, smothered by open air.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

246. “But still, somehow, I feel a pull to him. I remember the burdened boy who gave me a silver coin when I was nothing. With that one gesture he changed my future, and destroyed his own.”

— Victoria Aveyard

247. “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

248. “I can’t imagine living for a thousand years and still being so stupid... It’s almost an accomplishment.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

250. “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. A sense of dread hung over today, a black cloud I still can’t get rid of. It is an unease deep in the heart of me, feeding off my strength.”

— Victoria Aveyard