Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The blushing queen-to-be is gone, replaced by the sharp she-devil I recognize. He.”

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302. “I’ve done things, terrible things, and I don’t deserve forgiveness for them. But I see it in Julian’s eyes all the same. And it fills me with such hope. I will not become a monster, no matter what I must do in the days ahead. I will not lose who I am, even if it kills me.”

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

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

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305. “I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”

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

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307. “A strange prince, an even stranger night, she wrote later. I don’t know if I ever want to see him again. But he seemed lonely too. Should we not be lonely together?”

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308. “I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven’s obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.”

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309. “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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310. “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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311. “I have nothing but time. To choose, to heal. To live.”

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312. “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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313. “I would not have liked to watch you die.” The admission is small and matter-of-fact.”

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

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315. “No wonder they mistake this for peace. I want to scream at every Red face I pass. I want to carve the words on my body so everyone has to see. Trap. Lie. Conspiracy.”

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316. “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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317. “The steel reddens, warming under Cal’s fiery touch, and bits of the gilded hilt melt between his fingers. Gold and silver and iron, dripping from his hands like tears.”

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318. “I do not scowl,” Dom said, scowling.”

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319. “Maven lets me think, his eyes thoughtful as he watches the emotions rise in my face. He always lets me think. Sometimes his silence is better than anyone else’s words.”

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320. “Something about my unease sets Cal on edge. “Is Maven the only thing you’re worried about?” Not.”

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321. “One minute of darkness. That’s what I need to give them. The screams, the yelling, the stampede of feet almost break my concentration, but I force myself to focus. The lights flash horribly, then die, making it almost impossible to move. Making it possible for my friends to slip away.”

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

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323. “Oh, that,” the king huffs, plopping back down into his chair. “I suppose we’ll give them an allowance, keep them quiet.” “I.”

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324. “I can’t let the mistakes I’ve made bury me.”

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325. “The crushing weight of silence hangs heavy as always. For a moment it’s too difficult to breathe, and I wonder if this is how I die. Drowned in this bed of silk, burned by a king’s obsession, smothered by open air.”

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326. “You don’t know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.”

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327. “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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328. “Mare, don’t be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy.”

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329. “Risk is part of the game.”

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330. “He must be blessed, by someone or something. My only consolation is knowing I’m right about him, and always will be.”

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331. “Sorasa tried to remember the last time she’d said thank you to a living person and meant it. Years, if not decades, she realized, racking her brain. Well, no use in breaking the streak now.”

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332. “I can’t deny how much I want to go back for him.”

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333. “Life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.”

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

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335. “Mareena is impressed, but she keeps her emotions in check. She is cold and unfeeling.”

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336. “Maybe he ran afoul of his own toothbrush when he was a growing boy. Next.”

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337. “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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338. “Gently, she peels my fingers from her arm as regret clouds her eyes. “I hope you don’t mean me.” To.”

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339. “Sorasa spat heartily, her aim true.”

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

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341. “Tramy finally lets me go, putting me back down next to Cal, who’s doing a wonderful job looking awkward and out of place.”

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342. “All of it to make us cheer, to make us scream, to force us to watch, even if we don’t want to. “That’s.”

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343. “We’ve never seen so much blood here before. Blue lights flash to life, bathing.”

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

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345. “I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me? I don’t know. And I don’t know how to make it stop.”

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346. “Every time he looks at me, with eyes the color of blood, I get the sense that he can see right through my skin, to the twisted thing I used to call a heart.”

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347. “When are you going to realize that every word out of my mouth was a lie?” “We.”

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348. “One day people are going to come and take everything you have.”

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349. “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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350. “Not pretty, is it, lightning girl?” She sneers, noting my gaze. Disdain drips from her words like venom from fangs. “But you don’t like to bother with ugly things.”

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