Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “No heart can ever be truly understood. Not even your own.”

— Victoria Aveyard

252. “They trained me for this. It’s their own fault. They helped make their own doom.”

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253. “Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. The rumors about them vary, but it boils down to something simple and chilling: they can enter your head, read your thoughts, and control your mind.”

— Victoria Aveyard

254. “If. I hate that word.”

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255. “I am the shadow of the flame.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

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

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258. “Today, we fight for tomorrow.”

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259. “Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.”

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260. “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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261. “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

262. “I am the lightning girl. I am a storm. It feels like a lie. The lightning girl is dead.”

— Victoria Aveyard

263. “If it isn’t too late for me, it isn’t too late for yourself.”

— Victoria Aveyard

264. “I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it.”

— Victoria Aveyard

265. “Now the question becomes finding the right Red, saying the right thing, finding the right place, and doing it all without anyone noticing the prince and his future princess communicating with a wanted terrorist.”

— Victoria Aveyard

266. “Mare for Mareena, a thief for a crown, rags for silk, Red for Silver.”

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267. “Break his crown, break his throne, rip his monarchy apart.” I stare up at her with as much strength as I can muster. The lightning in my blood responds with fervor, begging to crack loose. “But Tiberias lives.”

— Victoria Aveyard

268. “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

269. “Time moves slowly when you’re waiting for something good.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

271. “Belief doesn’t make it easy to take a bullet.”

— Victoria Aveyard

272. “N’importe qui peut trahir n’importe qui.”

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273. “My ignorance is becoming a theme.”

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274. “Children of crossing, children of conquest. Destined to rule every corner of the Ward, but they fell. They failed. We are their successors. And I will prove it.”

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275. “It tolled in answer, as if a bell could do such a thing.”

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276. “Thinking all Silvers are evil is just as wrong as thinking all Reds are inferior.”

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277. “Our gods have no names, no hierarchy. Their blessings are random, their words sparse, their punishments impossible to predict. But they exist in all things. They are felt at all times.”

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278. “History gorges itself on women raised high and then brought low by men grasping for their power.”

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279. “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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280. “Red running through silver, joining into something darker.”

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281. “There’s a difference between us and you,” Ashe finally snaps. “We do what we have to in order to survive, to carve out a life. Not because we don’t agree with the palace we end up living in.”

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

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

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284. “They have their own version of truth, and that’s the only one people will hear.”

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285. “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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286. “In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. 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

287. “My corpse will smell wonderful.”

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288. “I’d rather a black eye than a puzzle.”

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289. “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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290. “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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291. “Wish him a happy birthday for me. And assure him it will be his last. But yours is coming, isn’t it? I don’t doubt we’ll spend it together. Until we meet again, Maven.”

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292. “Caz, Brecker, with us!”

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293. “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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294. “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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295. “I see you as you could become, no longer the lightning, but the storm. The storm that will swallow the world entire.”

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

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

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

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

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

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