Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Bree doesn’t know me as I am now, having missed almost five years of my life. But then, my life has changed more in the last two months than ever before. And only two people were with me through it. The first is imprisoned and the second wears a crown of blood.”

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

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

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304. “Red as the dawn...”

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305. “I can’t even summon the strength to frown. “There are worse lives to live. Don’t feel sorry for me.” He.”

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306. “Instead, he stands quietly, content to watch. It seems his loyalties lie not with the king but with the queen. She’s.”

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307. “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.”

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308. “Until we meet again.”

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309. “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.”

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

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311. “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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312. “I still had sting my eyes, prickling at Maven’s memory. It’s hard to forget him as he was. No. As he pretended to be. The kind, forgotten boy. The shadow of the flame.”

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

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315. “And then it explodes in bright plumes of orange and red, a sun to split the silver darkness.”

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316. “I expect him to take my arm, to envelop me in his warmth, but there’s nothing but cold dripping off him. He’s afraid, I realize.”

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

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

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

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

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

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323. “When the maids pinch and pull me into a gown, I feel like a corpse being dressed for her funeral.”

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324. “I hope Maven will see what we are, what we can do, and know he cannot win. Even he is not a fool. Even he knows when he is beaten. At least, I hope he does. Because as far as I can tell, Maven has never been defeated. Not when it really counts. Cal won their father, his soldiers, but Maven won the crown. Maven won every battle that truly mattered. And given time... he would’ve won me too.”

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325. “Dimly, I hear Maven yelling somewhere, the prince charging in to save his princess. But I’m not a princess. I’m not the girl who gets saved.”

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

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327. “Todos tenemos cicatrices y fantasmas propios.”

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328. “For their lives, for their children’s lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.”

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

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331. “My ignorance is becoming a theme.”

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

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334. “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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335. “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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336. “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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337. “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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338. “There was silver on it, blood dark from the passing hours. and her bathwater was black with it.”

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “It’s not pretty for the ones who can’t keep up the pace.”

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342. “Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.”

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

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

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345. “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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346. “Even now, the fish boy takes nothing seriously. He’ll laugh his way into his grave.”

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

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348. “I let go of a breath I didn’t realize I was holding in.”

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349. “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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350. “Knowledge is a rising tide. Lifts all boats, as it were.”

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