Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “It tolled in answer, as if a bell could do such a thing.”

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

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

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

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

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260. “My corpse will smell wonderful.”

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “If there’s one thing I should forget, it’s him.”

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

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

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

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

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

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272. “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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273. “I’ll miss you, little lightning girl.”

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

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

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276. “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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277. “I do not scowl,” Dom said, scowling.”

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

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

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280. “With great effort, I push my fear away. Fear will get me killed.”

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281. “The lightning girl is easier to read than the pages of a children’s book.”

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282. “We don’t choose what we’re born to, Corayne,” Erida replied. She touched the crown on her brow. “We can only walk the path put in front of us.”

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283. “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.”

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284. “It’s not something you can control, Mare,” he replies, still standing so far away. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”

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285. “I grew up wondering if I’d have food for supper; now I’m standing in a palace about to be eaten alive. Red.”

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286. “Here on the road with nothing but darkness around me, I tell a stranger how terrible I am.”

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287. “For a storm coming, whether by my hand or someone else’s. I have no idea who will survive dawn.”

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288. “My master – he fell. He died. I’m not an apprentice anymore.” I try to hold in.”

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289. “Fifteen minutes later, after suffering through tight leather leggings, a draping gown, and other strange, impractical clothes, we settle on the plainest thing I can find in the closet of wonders.”

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290. “Red and silver. It’s in Julian’s unmistakable swirling scrawl. The.”

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291. “I want to kill her, I want to be her.”

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292. “I’ve been broken too many times to break again.”

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293. “Risk is part of the game.”

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294. “The squire will march and fight and carry on until he drops. Until someone gives him permission to stand back, and be a little less strong.”

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295. “I see him in every shadow of every tree, a ghost standing tall against the rainstorm in the Bowl of Bones. Water streams between the points of his iron crown, into his eyes and mouth, into his collar, into the icy abyss that is his wasted heart. It goes red in color, turning from water to my blood. He opens his mouth to taste it, and the teeth within are sharp, gleaming razors of white bone.”

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296. “I am not a general or a tactician, but her reasoning is clear. I am the little lightning girl – living electricity, a lightning bolt in human form. People know my name, my face, and my abilities. I am valuable, I am powerful, and Maven will do anything to stop me from striking back.”

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297. “It isn’t hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.”

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298. “My son the general!” King Tiberias booms, his proud voice cutting through the din of the party. For a second, when he pulls Cal close, putting an arm around his son, I forget he’s a king. I almost understand Cal’s need to please him. What would I give to see my mother look at me like that, back when I was nothing but a thief? What would I give now? This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white.”

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

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300. “I don’t know how, but I hope you become queen one day. Imagine what you could do then? The Red queen.”

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