Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “The world changed around us and we stayed the same.”

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203. “Who would I have chosen? If none of this had happened, if Kilorn’s master never died, if Gisa’s hand was never broken, if nothing ever changed. If. It’s the worst word in the world.”

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

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205. “There are worse lives to live. Don’t feel sorry for me.”

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

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

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208. “Strange that she is both the anchor against the storm and the storm itself.”

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

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

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212. “That’s something you should know about us Silvers. We’re always alone. In here, and here,” he says, pointing between his head and his heart. “It keeps you strong.”

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213. “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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214. “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.”

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215. “If. I hate that word.”

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

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217. “I am the shadow of the flame.”

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218. “Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.”

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

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “How does it feel to be used Mare Borrow?”

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

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

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “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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232. “Not that I’ll be in school much longer. My eighteenth birthday is coming, and with it, conscription. I’m not apprenticed, I don’t have a job, so I’m going to be sent to the war like all the other idle ones. It’s no wonder there’s no work left, what with every man, woman, and child trying to stay out of the army.”

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233. “In this light he looks old and gray, a bitter man haunted by a dead sister, in love with a broken woman, doomed to teach a girl who can do nothing but lie.”

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234. “You are only a shadow, and who looks at shadows when they have flame?”

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235. “I suppose I should get used to being alone too. Not in the world, but in here. In my heart. Part.”

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236. “If there’s one thing I should forget, it’s him.”

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237. “We all have scars and ghosts of our own. Some drove us to the Scarlet Guard, and some were because of it. I know the sting of both.”

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238. “His eyes met Erida’s like lightning finding the earth.”

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

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240. “Rage is a double-edged sword, and this woman has been bled by both edges.”

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241. “The blushing queen-to-be is gone, replaced by the sharp she-devil I recognize. He.”

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242. “Etiquette be damned. Those are mine.”

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243. “One dark night I spilled my secrets to him, on a road thick with summer heat. I was the girl who tried to steal his money then. Now, winter looms, and I’m the girl who stole his life.”

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244. “Only when someone else sees worth in me does he condescend to do the same.”

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245. “Anyone can betray anyone. – Julian Jacos.”

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246. “I’m a man of my word, when I want to be. He said that once, and stands by it. It really is a gift, if he holds to his promise.”

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247. “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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248. “I do not scowl,” Dom said, scowling.”

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

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250. “It’s not pretty for the ones who can’t keep up the pace.”

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