Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “They trained me for this. It’s their own fault. They helped make their own doom.”

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

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

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254. “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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255. “It’s to bad we didn’t stay longer”, I murmur, looking out at the river. “I would have liked to die close to home.”

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256. “I follow the usual schedule... Wake up. Immediately regret it.”

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257. “Strength and power are the words Cal has been raised to know. Not goodness. Not kindness. Not empathy or bravery or equality or anything else that a ruler should strive for.”

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258. “And behind every false smile is a reminder; they are watching.”

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259. “Kilorn shoulders his way to my side, separating us before I can tell Cal my strength and my ability are all I’m sure of now. The electricity in my veins might be the only thing I trust in this world. I.”

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260. “No heart can ever be truly understood. Not even your own.”

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261. “I’m safer than I’ve been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I’ve never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.”

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

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

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264. “Or are we just winging it now?”

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

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266. “Being a doll is an odd thing. I spend more time on the shelf than at play.”

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267. “His opinion isn’t worth the rust on my fathers wheelchair.”

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268. “The world changed around us and we stayed the same.”

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “Maven’s voice will always be louder than mine.”

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274. “Risk is part of the game.”

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275. “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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276. “A hierarchy within the hierarchy.”

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

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278. “They don’t know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It’s only their pride that can be truly hurt.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “They have their own version of truth, and that’s the only one people will hear.”

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283. “You aren’t alone.” The hope in his eyes cuts deeply. “You have your crown.”

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284. “I used to think there was only the divide, Silver and Red, rich and poor, kings and slaves. But there’s much more in between, things I don’t understand, and I’m right in the middle of it.”

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285. “I was four years old the first time I came here, and Maven was barely two. He hid behind his mother’s skirts, afraid of the darkness and empty cells. I guess he’s not afraid of the dark anymore.”

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

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287. “And somehow everyone calls me a monster.”

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288. “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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289. “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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290. “To rise. And rise alone.”

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291. “There was silver on it, blood dark from the passing hours. and her bathwater was black with it.”

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292. “But Maven is not Cal, no matter how much his father might want him to be. He isn’t a soldier, he won’t be a king, but he’s braver. And he’s willing to do what’s right.”

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293. “At the back of the room, the exiled prince gets to his feet. He holds my gaze, as if his eyes alone could set me on fire. A waste. There is nothing in me left to burn.”

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294. “This is the world I’m trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.”

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295. “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. I thought Cal was immune to the corruptive temptation of power. How wrong I was. He was born to be a king. It’s what he was made for. It’s what he was made to want.”

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296. “Each point feels like the blow from a hammer, smashing me down to size.”

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

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299. “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.” I feel cracked open. My skin still runs hot from Cal’s embrace, remembering the feel of him only moments ago. But in the deepest part of me, in spite of every fiber of my being, I think beyond the clearing, to ice-colored eyes, an empty promise, and a kiss aboard a boat.”

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300. “They don’t act out of need. They are driven by want. And what they want, they get.”

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